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Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1 9 17. 
OBITUARY. 
Julius  Otto  Schlotterbeck.1 
Julius  Otto  Schlotterbeck  was  born  in  Ann  Arbor  in  1865.  After 
attending  graded  and  high  schools  in  that  city,  he  entered  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  degree 
of  Ph.C.  in  1887.  One  year  later  he  was  made  assistant  instructor 
in  pharmacognosy  and  pharmacy  in  the  university.  In  1891  he  was 
made  assistant  instructor  in  pharmacy  and  was  granted  a  B.S.  de- 
gree. From  1893  to  1895,  he  filled  this  position,  after  which  he 
spent  two  years  in  the  University  of  Berne,  Switzerland,  grad- 
uating summa  cum  laude  in  1897  with  the  degree  of  doctor  of 
philosophy. 
He  returned  to  the  University  of  Michigan  immediately  after, 
accepting  the  position  of  assistant  professor  of  pharmacognosy  and 
pharmacy,  which  he  held  until  1904,  when  he  was  made  professor 
of  these  studies.  In  1905  he  was  appointed  dean  of  the  college  of 
pharmacy  by  the  board  of  regents. 
Dr.  Schlotterbeck  created  an  enviable  reputation  as  a  scientist 
by  discovering  several  vegetable  alkaloids.  For  nearly  twenty-five 
years  he  was  associated  with  Frederick  Stearns  &  Company  as  con- 
sulting expert  and  he  had  been  a  member  of  the  firm  of  the  J.  Hun- 
gerford  Smith  Company.  He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  of 
revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  a  (fellow)  member 
of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science,  a 
member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  former  sec- 
retary and  president  of  the  Conference  of  Pharmaceutical  Faculties, 
a  member  of  the  American  Chemical  Society,  was  prominently  asso- 
ciated with  the  Detroit  branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  and  former  president  of  the  Michigan  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Association.  He  was  a  frequent  and  valued  contributor  to 
leading  scientific  journals  and  had  published  many  important  papers, 
possibly  a  majority  on  phyto-chemistry. 
Dean  Schlotterbeck  is  survived  by  the  widow,  Mrs.  Eda  C. 
Schlotterbeck,  and  three  children ;  Prescott,  nineteen,  a  freshman 
in  the  literary  college  of  the  University  of  Michigan;  Miriam,  six- 
teen, a  high  school  student,  and  Carl,  seven. 
1  A  tribute  to  the  memory  of  Dr.  Schlotterbeck  by  Frederick  Stearns  & 
Company,  with  whom  he  was  associated  as  consulting  expert  chemist  for  a 
quarter  of  a  century. 
