48o 
Reviews,  etc. — Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.,  1877, 
of  accurately  determining  the  amount  of  sugar  by  weighing  the  metallic  copper 
obtained  from  the  cuprous  oxide  by  galvanic  action.  In  the  second  paper  sugar 
determinations  of  the  blood  of  the  dog,  sheep  and  bullock  are  given,  the  mean  of 
six  or  seven  assays  being  787,  -521  and  -543  respectively  per  one  thousand  parts. 
The  venous  and  arterial  blood  of  the  same  animal  was  found  nott  o  differ  mate- 
rially in  the  amount  of  sugar.  After  death  the  sugar  disappeared  spontaneously 
from  the  blood. 
Milwaukee  Souvenir.    1877.    8vo,  PP«  7^- 
An  illustrated  pamphlet  in  the  German  language,  giving  a  condensed  history  of 
the  foundation  and  industrial  and  commercial  importance  of  the  cream- colored  city, 
so  called  from  the  light  color  of  the  bricks  used  in  building.  Up  to  1835  a  single 
white  family  lived  here  5  at  present  the  population  is  estimated  to  exceed  120,000 
■inhabitants.  During  the  two  months  commencing  with  June  5  last  the  conventions 
of  not  less  than  seven  national  and  state  associations  were  held  here. 
OBITUARY. 
Professor  August  Husemann,  Ph.D.,  died  in  Thusis,  Switzerland,  July  17, 
in  the  forty-fourth  year  of  his  age.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  entered  a  pharmacy  at 
Detmold  as  an  apprentice,  studied  afterwards  at  Gottingen,  and  after  having  passed 
the  state's  examination,  devoted  himself  to  chemistry,  and  in  i860  received  the 
degree  of  Ph.D.  He  investigated  carotin  and  hydrocarotin,  the  ethers  of  sulpho- 
carbonic  and  oxysulphocarbonic  acids,  the  reactions  of  morphia  and  narcotina,  and 
together  with  Marme  discovered  lycina,  cytisina  and  laburnina,  also  helleborin  and 
helleborein,  and  proved  the  identity  of  lycina  with  betaina.  Together  with  Th. 
Husemann,  he  published  a  work  on  toxicology  and  subsequently  one  on  the  proxi- 
mate vegetable  principles  in  their  chemical,  physiological,  pharmacological  and  toxico- 
logical  relations.  Two  supplementary  volumes  to  Gmelin's  Organic  Chemistry 
were  written  in  part  by  him  5  he  was  also  actively  engaged  at  Wiggefs  annual  report 
on  the  progress  of  pharmacy  since  1866  until  Prof.  Dragendorff  became  its  editor 
in  1875.  For  a  time  he  was  private  lecturer  (privat  docent)  at  the  University  of 
Gottingen,  and  afterwards  accepted  a  call  to  the  chair  of  chemistry  and  physics  at 
the  polytechnic  school  of  Chur,  where  he  remained  until  1876,  when  failing  health 
compelled  him  to  resign  his  position. 
George  W.  Aimar,  of  Charleston,  S.  C,  died  in  that  city  in  the  fiftieth  year  of 
his  age.  He  learned  the  apothecary  business  at  Beaufort,  S.  C,  and  afterwards 
removed  to  Charleston,  graduated  at  the  Medical  College  of  South  Carolina,  and 
entered  into  business  on  his  own  account  in  1853.  He  took  an  active  interest  in 
raising  the  status  of  pharmacy  in  his  native  State. 
