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Following  this,  he  described  the  best  method  of  preparing  the  extract,  gave 
some  interesting  facts  concerning  the  composition  of  the  extract,  and  added 
some  results  obtained  by  an  examination  of  commercial  extracts. 
President  N.  H.  Martin  was  elected  to  serve  another  year,  and  the  Conference 
decided  to  hold  the  meeting  of  1895  at  Bournemouth. 
PENNSYLVANIA  PHARMACEUTICAL  EXAMINING  BOARD. 
At  the  recent  meeting  of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board,  held  at 
Williamsport,  Pa.,  July  14th,  78  persons  appeared  for  examination  as  Registered 
Pharmacists,  and  29  as  Qualified  Assistants — a  total  of  107.  Of  this  number,  17 
passed  successful  examinations  as  Registered  Pharmacists,  and  14  as  Qualified 
Assistants  — a  total  of  31.  The  next  meeting  of  the  Board  for  the  examination 
of  applicants  for  registration  will  be  held  at  Philadelphia  and  Pittsburg  (date 
notryet  determined).  All  applicants  for  examination  should  apply  to  the  Sec- 
retary, Charles  T.  George,  1306  North  Third  Street,  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  not  later 
than  October  1st,  for  examination  blanks,  and  exact  time  and  place  of  next 
meeting. 
OBITUARY. 
C.  R.  Alder  Wright,  B.Sc,  D.  Sc..  F.  R.  S.,  of  London,  England,  died  July 
25,  1894.  The  Chemical  News,  of  August  3d,  contains  the  following  informa- 
tion concerning  the  deceased  : 
"  No  English  chemist  has  covered  so  much  ground.  His  work  began  with  a 
paper  published  in  February,  1866,  in  the  Journal  of  the  Chemical  Society,  on 
the  Action  of  Light  on  Sensitive  Photographic  Papers,  when  Wright  was  a  stu- 
dent at  Owens'  College,  Manchester.  Leaving  Owens'  College,  he  entered  the 
Weston  Works  of  the  Runcorn  Soap  and  Alkali  Company,  as  chemist. 
"  In  August,  1867,  we  find  a  valuable  paper  in  the  Journal  of  the  Chemical 
Society,  in  which  Dr.  Wright  describes  his  experiences  in  alkali  works. 
"  His  work  comprises  investigations  of  simple  substances  like  hydriodic  acid, 
and  some  of  the  most  complex  substances,  like  the  vegeto-alkaloids,  upon 
which  he  labored  for  many  years — sometimes  alone  and  sometimes  in  conjunc- 
tion with  Mathiesson  and  others. 
"Alder  Wright  was  a  mathematician  as  well  as  a  chemist,  and  we  find  nine 
papers  On  the  Determination  of  Chemical  Affinity  in  Terms  of  Electromotive 
Force.  These  papers  alone  occupy  a  thick  volume.  They  appeared  for  the 
most  part  in  the  Philosophical  Magazine. 
"  In  the  Journal  of  the  Chemical  Society  for  February,  1873,  there  is  a  paper 
On  the  Hydrogen  Occluded  by  Palladium,  by  W.  Chandler  Roberts  and  C.  R. 
A.  Wright.  A  series  of  papers  then  follows  on  Isomeric  Terpenes,  Essential 
Oils,  etc.,  in  the  same  year. 
"On  Friday,  March  13,  1874,  Wright  delivered  an  evening  lecture  at  the 
Royal  Institution  On  the  Chemical  Changes  Accompanying  the  Smelting  of 
Iron  in  the  Blast  Furnace,  embodying  extensive  experience  he  had  gained  in 
the  works  and  research  laboratory  of  Sir  Lowthian  Bell. 
"  In  the  Journal  of  the  Chemical  Society,  January,  1878,  appeared  his  first 
paper,  entitled  Researches  on  Some  Points  in  Chemical  Dynamics.  The  fourth 
of  these  papers  appeared  in  December,  1880. 
