592  Obituary.  {Amx™?;w7&rm' 
China  in  America:    A  study  in  the  social  life  of  the  Chinese  in  the  eastern 
cities  of  the  United  States.  By  Stewart  Culin,  Philadelphia,  1887,  pp.  16. 
This  interesting  essay  was  read  before  the  Section  of  Anthropology, 
American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  and  is  embellished 
with  a  fac-simile  reproduction  of  a  Chinese  map  of  the  Province  of  Kwan- 
tung,  from  two  departments  of  which  the  Chinese  laborers  .in  the  United 
States  come. 
The  following  reprints  have  been  received : 
The  Estimation  of  Quinine  by  Kernels  Method.    By  E.  A.  Ruddiman,  Ph.C. 
A  contribution  from  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan ;  reprint  from  The  Pharmaceutical  Era. 
Is  an  Apprentice  in  a  Drug  Store  entitled  to  Receive  Instruction  in  Practical  Phar- 
macy from  his  Employer  f    By  Ottmar  Eberbach. 
From  Proceedings  of  the  Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
The  Cultivation  of  Cinchona  in  Bolivia.    By  H.  H.  Rusby,  M.D. 
From  Pharmaceutical  Record.  The  paper  was  read  before  the  American 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science. 
The  Chemistry  of  Nitrogen  Disclosed  in  the  Constitution  of  the  Alkaloids.  By 
Prof.  A.  B.  Prescott. 
From  Proceedings  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science.    This  is  an  address  made  before  the  Section  of  Chemistry. 
OBITUARY. 
Spencer  Fullerton  Baird,  L.L.D.,  died  at  Woods  Hall,  Mass.,  August  19.  He 
was  born  at  Reading,  Pa.,  February  3,  1823,  was  educated  at  Dickinson  Col- 
lege, in  1846  became  Professor  of  Natural  Sciences  in  that  institution,  in 
1850  was  appointed  assistant  secretary  of  the  Smithsonian  Institution,  and 
after  the  death  of  Prof.  Henry  succeeded  him  as  secretary  of  the  institution 
and  Director  of  the  National  Museum.  He  was  the  author  of  a  number 
of  works  and  of  numerous  papers  on  the  fauna  of  North  America. 
Max  Fluckiger,  M.D.,  son  of  Professor  F.  A.  Fluckiger,  died  suddenly  in 
Strassburg,  September  24.  The  deceased  who  was  born  in  Bern,  Switzer- 
land, February  13,  1861,  was  an  accomplished  student,  with  the  prospects 
before  him  of  a  bright  career  of  usefulness. 
Seth  Caleb  Johnson,  Ph.G.  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  class  1886, 
died  at  Absecon,  N.  J.,  October  1st,  at  the  age  of  31  years. 
