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f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\       Oct.,  1877. 
atile  oils,  by  McKesson  &  Robbins  ;  plasters,  by  Seabury  &  Johnson,  New  York  ; 
bougies,  by  Allan  &  Co.,  Buffalo  5  nitrite  of  amyl  pearls  and  iodoform  crayons, 
by  F.  A.  Reichardt,  New  York;  liquorice,  of  their  own  manufacture,  by  Mellor  k 
Rittenhouse,  Philadelphia. 
Appliances  and  Miscellaneous. — Dispensing  and  counter  scales  were  on  exhibition 
from  Hy.  Troemner,  Philadelphia;  wafer  press  and  wafers  from  Neidlinger  &  Co., 
New  York;  show  cases  from  F.  A.  Howell,  New  York,  and  W.  Millichamp, 
Toronto  ;  Messten's  microscopes,  by  Fr.  Hoffmann,  New  York  ;  native  wines,  by  H. 
K.  Thurber,  New  York',  Saratoga  mineral  waters,  by  Gates  &  Bro.,  Saratoga  ;  a 
soap-cutting  machine,  by  Van  Buest  &  Co.,  New  Albany. 
OBITUARY. 
Hugh  Algernon  Weddell,  M.D.,  died  at  Poitiers,  France,  July  22,  at  the 
age  of  58  years.  The  deceased  was  well  known  as  the  author  of  many  botanical 
memoirs,  among  which  the  most  celebrated  is  his  illustrated  Histoire  naturelle  des 
Quinquinas,  which  was  published  by  Riocreux  et  Steinheil,  at  Paris,  in  1849.  The 
work  was  the  fruit  of  personal  observations  made  on  a  journey  to  Southern  Peru 
and  Bolivia,  after  he  had  been  exploring  for  two  years,  since  1843,  some  of  the 
interior  provinces  of  Brazil  and  a  portion  of  Peru,  in  company  with  M.  de  Cas- 
telnau.  Besides  other  species,  he  discovered,  in  1847,  Cinchona  Calisaya  and  several 
of  its  varieties,  and  recognized  in  it  the  source  of  Calisaya'  bark  which  had  then  been 
known  in  Europe  for  about  60  years.  He  strongly  advocated  to  attempt  the  culti- 
vation of  the  cinchonas,  which  is  now  successfully  carried  on  in  the  East  Indies, 
and  also  directed  attention  to  the  importance  of  the  microscopical  investigation  of 
the  histological  relations  of  the  cinchona  barks,  which  has  since  led  to  such  important 
results  through  the  observations  of  Schleiden,  Berg,  John  Eliot  Howard  and  others. 
In  1870,  Weddell  published  Notes  sur  les  Quinquinas,  in  which  he  reviewed  the 
botany  of  that  genus  and  arranged  the  33  species  into  5  "stirps."  Recently  he 
interested  himself  in  favor  of  the  more  extended  use  of  the  cheaper  cinchona  alka- 
loids in  place  of  quinia. 
The  deceased  was  a  member  of  numerous  scientific  bodies,  and  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  loses  in  him  one  of  its  honorary  members. 
George  Wansey  Andrews  died  in  Baltimore  September  12th,  at  the  ripe  age 
of  76  years.  He  was  born  and  educated  in  that  city,  commenced  business  on  his 
own  account  in  1829,  was  afterwards  for  thirty  years  a  member  of  the  firm  of  An- 
drews &  Thompson,  and  retired  from  active  business  in  1871.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders,  and,  for  many  years,  president  of  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Though  not  present  at  the  organization  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion in  1852,  the  convention  paid  him  the  compliment  of  electing  him  First  Vice 
President,  and  in  1856-57  he  served  as  President  of  the  Association.  He  had  been 
a  member  of  the  Maryland  Academy  of  Sciences  for  over  fifty  years,  and  during 
his  long  life  enjoyed  and  retained  the  reputation  of  reliability  and  scientific  attain- 
ments as  a  pharmacist,  activity  and  correctnees  in  his  business  relations,  and  of  be- 
ing a  good  and  useful  man  and  citizen. 
Gustavus  Krause  was  born  September  19th,  1822,  at  Custrin,  Prussia,  served 
his  apprenticeship  with  his  brother  at  Schonhaide,  Saxony,  and  completed  his 
pharmaceutical  education  at  Berl  n.  He  left  Germany  for  political  reasons,  and 
after  residing  in  France  for  about  twelve  years  came  to  this  country  about  twenty 
years  ago,  and  soon  afterwards  entered  the  establishment  of  Samuel  Simes,  corner  of 
Twelfth  and  Chestnut  sts.,  Philadelphia,  of  which  he  subsequently  became  owner, 
until,  after  a  long  illness,  he  died  Sept.  25th,  aged  55  years.  The  deceased  was  a 
member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
