AOT'jJu°riTi904arm'}     Obituaries — Pharmaceutical  Meeting.  299 
The  second  objection  that  might  rightfully  be  advanced  is  the 
very  conservative  use  of  the  editorial  blue  pencil. 
The  volume  before  us  contains  page  after  page  of  matter  that 
could  very  well  have  been  omitted,  as  it  does  not  furnish  interesting 
reading,  nor  does  it  add  in  any  way  to  the  value  of  the  remaining 
material.  In  this  connection  a  very  large  amount  of  the,  at  times, 
verbose  discussions  might  very  well  have  been  omitted  entirely,  or, 
if  included,  instead  of  being  given  verbatim  and  in  detail,  would  be 
of  much  greater  interest,  and  more  likely  to  be  considered,  if  given 
in  abstract. 
The  third  objection,  and  again  a  serious  one,  in  connection  with 
a  volume  that  is  intended  to  be  used  as  a  reference  book,  is  the 
sparseness  of  the  index,  although  here  there  appears  to  be  a  decided 
improvement  over  the  index  in  the  volume  immediately  preceding. 
These  several  shortcomings  are,  of  course,  inherent,  and  can  only 
be  remedied  if  the  several  members  of  the  Association,  recognizing 
that  they  exist,  demand  the  necessary  changes. 
Apart  from  these  and  similar  shortcomings,  that  are  really  mere 
secondary  and  detail  matters  of  opinion,  the  volume  now  before  us 
is  one  that  should  be  found  in  every  up-to-date  pharmacy,  and  is, 
taken  all  in  all,  the  strongest  argument  that  could  possibly  be 
offered  for  a  pharmacist  to  seek  membership  in  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association.  M.  I.  W. 
OBITUARIES. 
Dr.  Alois  Philipp  Hellman,  the  founder  of  the  Pharmaceutische 
Post,  Vienna ;  also  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Austrian  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association,  died  May  29,  1903,  in  his  sixty-third  year. 
August  Garcke,  the  oldest,  and  probably  the  best-known,  Ger- 
man botanist ;  Professor  of  Botany  at  the  University  of  Berlin,  died 
January  10,  1904,  in  his  eighty-fifth  year. 
Professor  Garcke  was  born  October  25,  18 19;  his  "Flora  of 
Germany  "  is  a  well-known  and  frequently-quoted  handbook. 
  M.  I.  W. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  last  of  the  present  series  of  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon, 
May  17th,  Mr.  Walter  A.  Rumsey,  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  presiding. 
