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their  papers  to  the  chairman  as  early  as  convenient,  certainly  net 
later  than  July  ioth. 
It  is  the  intention  of  the  committee  that  all  papers  accepted  for 
presentation  to  the  Section  shall  there  receive  due  consideration. 
In  ©rder  to  accomplish  this,  and  to  do  away  with  the  necessity  of 
reading  many  papers  by  title,  it  will  be  essential  that  strict  compli- 
ance with  Article  IV  of  Chapter  9  of  the  By-Laws  (see  Proceedings 
A.  Ph.  A.,  vol.  50,  page  11 34)  be  insisted  on:  "Any  person  pre- 
paring a  paper  for  the  Association  which  shall  require  more  than 
ten  minutes  for  its  reading,  must  accompany  the  same  with  a 
synopsis  which  can  be  read  within  ten  minutes'  time.  The  paper 
and  synopsis  must  both  be  furnished  the  committee  of  the  particu- 
lar Section  to  which  it  refers  previous  to  the  first  session." 
Chas.  E.  Caspari,  Associate.  W.  A.  Puckner,  Chairman, 
Eustace  H.  Gane,  Secretary.  73  Wells  Street,  Chicago. 
.  OBITUARIES. 
M.  Leidie,  the  chief  pharmacist  of  the  Necker  Hospital,  Paris, 
died  November  25,  1903,  in  his  forty-eighth  year. 
M.  Leidie  had  been  chief  pharmacist  at  the  Necker  Hospital  for 
twenty-two  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Pharmacy 
of  Paris,  and  had  been  elected  to  serve  as  annual  secretary  in  1892 
and  as  president  in  1899.  M.  Leidie  had  done  considerable  research- 
work  on  the  metals  of  the  platinum  group. 
Roberts  Bartholow,  Professor  Emeritus  of  Materia  Medica  in 
Jefferson  College,  died  in  Philadelphia,  May  10,  1904,  in  his  seventy- 
third  year. 
Dr.  Bartholow,  who  was  well  known  as  an  author  on  subjects 
relating  to  materia  medica  and  therapeutics,  was  born  in  New  Wind- 
sor, Carroll  County,  Md.,  on  November  28,  1831,  and  obtained  his 
degree  in  medicine  from  the  University  of  Maryland  in  1852.  He 
served  as  surgeon  in  the  Union  Army  during  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion.  Dr.  Bartholow  was  elected  Professor  of  Materia  Medica 
and  Therapeutics  in  Jefferson  Medieval  College,  Philadelphia,  in  1879, 
and  was  made  Professor  Emeritus  in  1893. 
Eugene  Dietrich,  the  founder  and  president  of  the  advisory 
board  of  the  well-known  Chemische  Fabrik,  Helfenberg,  Germany, 
