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EDITORIAL. 
with  the  celebrated  Tcommsdorf  of  Erfurt,  during  which  service,  in  1807, 
he  took  the  degree  of  Doctor  in  Philosophy,  at  the  University  of  Erfurt.  In 
1814  Dr.  Buchner  was  engaged  in  the  formation  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  Bavaria,  and  was  its  first  Secretary.  He  commenced  the  publi- 
cation of  his  Repertorium  fur  die  Pharmacia  in  1815,  so  well  known  for  its 
scientific  character,  and  which  embraced  more  than  100  volumes  at  his 
death.  In  1818  he  was  appointed  Professor  of  Pharmacy  and  Toxicology 
in  the  University  of  Landshut,  and  subsequently,  in  1822,  received  the  de- 
gree of  M.  D.  After  the  University  of  Landshut  was  transferred  to  Munich, 
in  182G,  the  pharmaceutical  class  increased  so  as  to  be  second  only  to  that  of 
Berlin.  Dr.  Buchner  belonged  to  many  learned  societies,  and  was  knighted 
by  the  King  of  Bavaria  in  1848.  From  1849  to  his  death  he  was  actively 
engaged  as  the  President  of  the  Commission  appointed  by  the  King  to 
revise  the  Pharmacopoeia  Bavarica,  a  work  in  which  he  took  deep  interest. 
The  following  paragraph  from  Dr.  Pettenkoffer's  address  on  the  occasion  of 
his  burial,  is  a  noble  testimony  to  the  merit  and  standing  of  his  departed 
friend  : 
It  was  a  long  road  from  the  gardener's  boy  to  the  dignity  of  rector  magni- 
rlcus  of  one  of  the  first  universities  in  Germany,  which  our  lamented  friend 
and  brother  had  to  pass  ;  ihe  road  was  so  difficult  that  his  energies  must  have 
been  uncommon  not  to  have  succumbed  before  reaching  the  goal.  Dr.  Buch- 
ner was  no  hot-house  plant,  that  required  anxious  nursing — he  was  made  for 
the  rough  soil  of  life,  whose  varying  heat  and  cold,  drought  and  moisture, 
he  experienced,  blooming  and  bearing  fruit.  Dr.  Buchner  belonged  to  the 
number  of  those  men  whose  zeal  is  not  to  be  enhanced  by  praise  and  flat  - 
terv,  by  the  vile  allurements  of  ambition,  nor  to  be  slackened  "by  unmerited 
criticism  and  indifference.  After  having  once  chosen  a  certain  profession, 
that  of  Pharmaceutist,  he  was  to  the  end  of  his  active  life  prompted  in  all 
his  movements  by  one  single  idea — by  the  idea  of  ennobling  the  trade  of 
the  Pharmaceutist  on  strictly  scientific  foundations.  This  object  he  had 
before  him  when  he  went  to  Trommsdoiff,  at  Erfurt:  with  this  view  he 
visited  the  hospitals  at  Munich,  where  he  not  only  dispensed  medicines,  but 
also  watched  their  effect  upon  the  patient :  this  same  idea  urged  him  to  the 
earnest  study  of  Chemistry,  as  the  principal  foundation  of  technical  Phar- 
macy, which  gave  him  strength  to  continue  his  voluminous  Repertorium  fur 
Pharmacie—\\  was  this  idea  which  induced  him  to  accept  the  pharmaceutical 
professorships  at  Landshut  and  Munich,  and  which  guided  him  in  all  his 
labors  relating  to  the  art  of  the  Pharmaceutist.  Long  before  his  death  he 
had  reached  the  goal  as  victor,  and  many  a  laurel  crowned  his  modest  brow. 
Not  only  did  the  Academy  of  Sciences  at  Munich  elect  him  as  its  member, 
but  many  foreign  academies  and  learned  societies  did  the  same.  He  filled 
at  our  university  several  times  the  office  of  Dean  of  the  Medical  Faculty, 
and  was,  as  has  been  already  mentioned,  in  the  year  184-2-43  Rector  Magni- 
fieus  His  pupils  loved  and  esteemed  him  in  an  uncommon  degree,  and  not 
only  the  Pharmaceutists  of  his  native  country,  but  also  those  abroad,  consi- 
dered  him  as  their  chief.  When,  in  1843,  Dr.  Buchner  visited  Vienna,  he 
was  welcomed  on  board  the  steamer  by  all  the  Pharmaceutists  of  that  capital, 
who  vied  with  one  another  in  making  for  him  each  day  of  his  residence  there 
a  feast. — London  Pfwrm.  Journ.,  from  Buchnefs  Neues  Repertorium. 
Dr.  Pereira. — By  the  last  steamer  we  are  informed  of  the  death  of  this 
distinguished  physician,  lecturer  and  writer,  in  London;  at  the  age  of  49 
years,  in  the  midst  of  his  untiring  and  useful  labors. 
