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NECROLOGY. 
American Pharmacy has lost an able and experienced 
advocate in the person of Augustine J. L. Duhamel, who 
departed this life on the 21st ultimo, in the thirty third year 
of his age ; and we, who were acquainted with him, and 
amongst whom he has grown up, have especially to mourn 
the loss of a valuable member of our profession, and a 
worthy^fello w-citizen, thus cut off at the height of his career, 
when the rewards of a steady pursuit of professional duty 
were commencing to flow in upon him, and the prospects 
of the future were opening favourably on his path. 
A. J. L. Duhamel was born in this city, though of French 
descent; his father, who survives him, being a native of 
Bayonne in France. 
In the year 1829, he commenced the study of pharmacy 
with Elias Durand, under whose guidance he attained to 
that proficiency in pharmaceutical knowledge and practice, 
which marked him as a professional man ; and in the em- 
ploy of his preceptor he devoted ten years of his majority. 
In the spring of 1834, after accomplishing the courses of 
study prescribed by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 
he applied for and received the diploma of that Institution, 
which declared him to be a Graduate in Pharmacy. From 
that period almost to his decease, the continued interest felt 
by him in his favourite pursuit, has been deeply graven on 
the pages of this Journal, in the numerous contributions to 
its volumes which owe their origin to his pen. In this field 
his loss will be sensibly experienced, by the cessation of 
of his labours as a contributor. 
His papers number thirty four in all, scattered through 
twelve volumes of the Journal, and are eminently practical 
in their character. His inaugural essay on the preparations 
of iodine, published in 1835, extended through seventeen 
pages, and contained much that was new and interesting at 
that period. 
Seven of his essays, under the title of «' Pharmaceutical 
Notices" exhibit a great variety of facts, chiefly relative to 
new formulae, or suggestions for the improvement of old 
