Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Jan.,  1887. 
Obituary. 
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Annual  Report  of  the  Commissioner  of  Pensions,  for  the  year  ended  June  30,  1886, 
Washington,  D.  C,  8vo.,  pp.  70. 
The  Physician's  Visiting  List  for  1887.    Philadelphia.    P.  Blakiston  &  Co. 
This  is  the  thirty-sixth  year  of  the  publication  of  this  visiting  list ;  it  is  issued 
in  different  sizes  and  styles  varying  in  price  from  81  to  S3. 
Manual  for  the  use  of  Boards  of  Health  of  Massachusetts,  containing  the  statutes 
relating  to  the  public  health  and  the  decisions  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Massachusetts  relating  to  the  same.  Prepared  by  direction  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health,  Boston  :  Wight  &  Potter,  State  Printers,  1886.  8vo.  pp.  117. 
OBITUARY. 
Julius  "Wilhelm  Albert  Wigand,  Ph.D.,  Professor  of  Botany  at  the  Univers- 
ity of  Marburg,  and  director  of  the  botanical  garden  and  of  the  pharmacog- 
nostic  institute  at  that  university,  died  in  Marburg,  October  22,  1886,  aged  65 
years,  6  months.  He  was  the  second  son  of  Dr.  Frederick  AVigand,  apothecary  in 
Treysa,  Hesse-Cassel,  was  educated  at  the  classical  school  in  Marburg,  studied 
at  the  university  in  the  same  city  natural  sciences,  mathematics  and  philology, 
and  graduated  there  in  1846.  After  continuing  his  studies  in  Berlin  and  under 
Schleiden  in  Jena,  he  qualified  in  Marburg  as  teacher  (Privatdocent)  of  bot- 
any, August  29,  1849,  became  extraordinary  professor  March  27,  1851,  and  after 
Wenderoth's  death,  ordinary  professor  of  botany  December  11,  1861.  Aside 
from  his  numerous  contributions  to  botanical  science,  which  are  scattered  in 
various  journals,  he  published,  1S74-77,  awork  on  Darwinism  in  three  volumes ; 
also  a  valuable  work  on  Pharmacognosy  and  a  Flora  of  Hessia  (Electorate) 
both  of  which  passed  through  several  editions. 
Louis  Mialhe,  formerly  Professor  on  the  Paris  Ecole  de  Medecine,  died  in 
Paris,  November  1, 1SS6,  in  the  SOth  year  of  his  age.  The  deceased  was 
in  business  in  Paris  as  a  pharmacist,  and  had  also  studied  medicine.  He  wrote 
numerous  essays  on  pharmaceutical  and  toxicological  subjects,  and  was  one  of 
the  editors  of  the  Journal  de  Pharmacie  et  de  Chimie.  He  was  one  of  the  hon- 
orary members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
The  following  graduates  of  this  college  died  recently  : 
David  L.  Stackhouse,  class  1854,  died  in  Philadelphia,  November  25,  1886, 
in  the  54th  year  of  his  age.  He  was  born  in  Bucks  Co.,  Pa.,  learned  the 
apothecary  business  with  Thos.  J.  Husband,  and  subsequently  went  into  bus- 
iness at  Eighth  and  Green  Streets. 
Joseph  Bloonifield  Wetherill,  class  1857,  a  native  of  Philadelphia,  died  in 
New  York,  December  6,1886.  After  learning  the  drug  business  with  Thos. 
P.  James  and  conducting  for  some  years  a  drug  store  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  he 
went -to  New  York  to  study'theology,  was  afterwards  connected  with  Episco- 
pal Churches  in  Rome.  Italy,  and  Newark,  X.  J.,  and  with  St.  Paul's  Church 
in  New  York,  and  finally  was  rector  of  St.  Ambrose  Church  in  that  city. 
Thomas  R.  Coombe,  class  1859,  of  Chester,  Pa.,  was  an  apprentice  under  Jas. 
N.  Marks,  and  afterwards  was  engaged  in  business  in  West  Philadelphia. 
Several  years  ago  he  disposed  of  his  store  and  removed  to  Edgewater  Park^ 
N.  J.,  where  he  died  December  11, 1886. 
