Reviews 3  etc. — Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Oct.,  1878. 
Berberidacea.    By  C.  G.  and  J.  U.  Lloyd.    Cincinnati,  1878,    Pp.  16. 
A  brief  account  of  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  properties  of  American  berbe- 
ridaceas. 
Arbeit  en  aus  dem  Pharmaceutischen  Institute  der  Universitat  Dorpat,  1878. 
Notes  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  of  the  University  of  Dorpat. 
The  pamphlet  before  us  contains  investigations  on  theobromina  by  O.  Donker 
and  C.  Treumann,  and  an  analysis  of  the  bulbs  of  Erythronium  dens  canis,  Lin.,  by 
Prof.  Dragendorff. 
Methode  d"  Extraction  des  Pigments  d'Origine  Animale.    Applications  diverses  du  sul- 
fate d'ammoniaque.    Par  C.  Mehu.    Paris.    Pp.  7. 
Method  of  Extracting  Pigments  of  Animal  Origin. 
The'  essay  was  read  before  the  French  Academy  of  Medicine. 
Address  delivered  before  the  American  Medical  Association  at  its  Two enty -ninth  Annual 
Session,  held  at  Buffalo,  Jxne,  1878.  By  T.  G.  Richardson,  M.D.,  of  New 
Orleans,  President.    Pp.  21. 
The  American  Medical  College  Association.    Second  Annual  Meeting,  held  at  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y.,  June,  1878.    Pp.  10. 
The  Etiology  and  Prophylaxis  of  Blindness.    By  Dr.  M.  Landesberg,  Philadelphia. 
New  York:  Wm.  Wood  &  Co.  Pp.43. 
Zur  Statistik  der  Linsenkrankheiten.    Von  Dr.  Landesberg,  Philadelphia.     Cassel : 
Theo.  Fischer.    Pp.  19. 
Statistics  of  Diseases  of  the  Lens. 
Upon  the  Treatment  of  Strumous  Disease  by  ivbat  may  be  called  the  Solfatara  Method. 
By  Hor.  R.  Storer,  M.D.,  Newport,  R.  I.    Cambridge,  1878.    Pp.  10. 
OBITUARY. 
Alfred  Daggett,  Jr.,  has  departed  this  life  in  the  prime  of  manhood.  He 
was  a  prominent  pharmacist  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  one  of  the  founders  and 
officers  of  the  Connecticut  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  a  member  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
William  S.  Folger  died  after  a  very  short  illness  at  Boston  in  the  forty-third 
year  of  his  life.  He  was  born  in  Nantucket  in  1836,  was  apprenticed  to  Dr.  Jenks, 
of  Boston,  in  1851,  and  started  in  business  on  his  own  account  ten  or  twelve  years 
ago.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy  for 
about  the  same  length  of  time  and  has  served  that  institution  for  several  years  as  an 
officer;  at  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  vice-president.  He  was  a  member  and 
officer  of  the  Boston  Druggists'  Association  and  a  member  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association.  The  deceased  leaves  a  wife  and  two  children  j  his  mother 
and  an  older  brother  also  survive  him. 
