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Obituary. 
OBITUARY. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1887. 
August  Wilhelm  Eichler,  who  died  in  Berlin,  March  2d  last,  was  born 
April  22d,  1839,  at  Neukirchen,  Hessia,  and  finished  his  studies  at  the 
University  of  Marburg,  from  1857  to  1860,  under  Prof.  A.  Wigand,  recently 
deceased  (  Am.  Jour.  Phar.,  1887,  p.  53).  In  1861  Dr.  Eichler  went  to  Munich 
as  the  assistant  of  Martius,  habilitated  at  that  University  as  lecturer  in  1865, 
and  after  the  death  of  Martius,  became  the  editor  of  the  Flora  Brasiliensis. 
In  1871  he  accepted  a  call  as  Professor  of  Botany  and  Director  of  the  Botan- 
ical Garden  to  the  University  of  Graz,  in  1873  to  Kiel,  and  in  1878  to  Berlin, 
where  he  reorganized  the  botanical  garden,  arranged  the  botanical  museum 
erected  in  1880,  and  continued  his  labors  as  Professor  of  Botany  until  prostra- 
ted by  leucaemia  about  a  year  ago.  He  was  the  author  of  an  excellent  work  on 
the  morphology  of  phaenogams  published  under  the  title  of  "Bliitendia- 
gramme"  (diagrams  of  flowers),  elaborated  a  large  number  of  natural 
orders  for  the  Flora  Brasiliensis,  furnished  his  students  with  an  acceptable 
"  Syllabus  of  Lectures  on  Systematic  and  Medico-Pharmaceutical  Botany," 
and  wrote  many  essays  on  botanical  subjects  for  various  periodicals  and  for 
the  transactions  of  different  learned  societies.  The  funeral  took  place  from 
the  botanical  museum  which  the  deceased  savant  had  built  up. 
Information  has  been  received  of  the  death  of  the  following  graduates  of 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy : 
Albert  E.  Brown,  of  Morris,  111.,  Class  1886,  died  at  Los  Angeles,  CaL,  Feb. 
3, 1887. 
William  J.  Killingbeck,  of  Camden,  N.  J.,  Class  1880,  died  at  Las  Regas, 
New  Mexico,  Jan.  13, 1887,  aged  29  years. 
Harry  H.  Kneedler,  of  Gwynedd  Township,  Montgomery  County,  Pa., 
Class  1882,  died  at  the  age  of  27  years,  in  Reading,  Pa.,  where  he  had  estab- 
lished a  lucrative  business. 
