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(  A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1  November,  1894. 
ber  of  the  Alumni  Association.  His  funeral  took  place  from  the  residence  of 
his  sister,  1816  Butler  Street,  Easton,  Pa.,  on  Wednesday,  September  26,  1894, 
and  his  remains  were  interred  at  Farmersville  Cemetery. 
Samuel  S.  Jones,  Ph.G.,  Class  of  1886,  was  born  at  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.,  June 
16,  1864,  and  died  in  Rio  Janeiro,  Brazil,  March  IX,  1894,  of  yellow  fever,  aged 
twenty-nine  years,  eight  months  and  twenty-three  days.  He  received  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  and  in  early  life  began  to 
learn  the  drug  business  with  Mr.  T.  Jones,  at  Scranton,  Pa.,  and  also  received 
instructions  from  Dr.  Robitham,  after  which  he  entered  the  employ  of  Millard 
F.  Cyphers,  and  remained  with  him  until  the  fall  of  1884,  when  he  came  to 
Philadelphia  and  matriculated  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  as  a 
Junior,  and  passed  successful  examinations  both  in  his  Junior  and  Senior  years, 
and  graduated  with  honor  in  the  Class  of  1886.  His  thesis  was  entitled  Xan- 
thorriza  apiifolia.  After  his  graduation  he  returned  to  Wilkes-Barre  and 
entered  the  employ  of  Mat.  Wolfe  &  Co.,  and  for  some  years  previous  to  his 
death  was  a  member  of  that  firm.  He  had  gone  to  Buenos  Ay  res  in  November, 
1893,  and  from  there  to  Rio  Janeiro,  on  his  homeward  journey,  when  he  was 
taken  with  the  dread  disease,  and  was  removed  from  his  boarding-house  to  the 
hospital,  where  he  died,  and  his  remains  were  interred  in  that  far-off  land. 
He  was  married  June  3,  1891,  and  leaves  a  young  widow,  an  aged  father 
and  mother,  five  sisters  and  two  brothers,  to  mourn  his  early  and  sad  death. 
He  was  of  a  genial  nature,  and  made  many  friends  while  attending  College, 
who  will  hear  of  his  death  with  sorrow. 
NOTES. 
The  difficulties  in  the  cultivation  of  black  pepper  in  the  West  Indies  have 
been  successfully  overcome  in  Trinidad,  as  we  learn  from  a  Bulletin  (No.  23) 
of  the  Royal  Botanic  Gardens.  A  crop  of  some  200  pounds  has  been  harvested, 
and  samples  have  received  highly  satisfactory  valuation. — Botanical  Gazette. 
TANNIGKN. 
This  is  the  name  of  a  new  remedy  described  by  Dr.  Hans  Meyer  {Pharm. 
Zeitung,  39,  568).  Schiff  in  1873  prepared  a  pentacetyl  derivative  of  tannin, 
by  heating  together,  for  several  hours,  tannin  and  glacial  acetic  acid.  The 
compound  designated  by  the  name  tannigen  is  also  an  acetyl  derivative  of 
tannin,  but  differs  from  the  compound  of  Schiff  by  only  having  two  of  its 
hydroxyls  replaced  by  two  acetic  residues. 
The  author  does  not  state  how  this  difference  maybe  attained.  Tannigen 
occurs  as  a  grayish-yellow,  tasteless  and  odorless  powder,  slightly  hygroscopic. 
It  melts  when  dry  without  decomposition  at  1800  C.  When  heated  with  water 
to  500  C.  it  forms  a  viscous  mass.  It  is  not  sensibly  soluble  in  cold  water  or 
in  dilute  acids,  slightly  soluble  in  warm  water  and  in  ether,  and  freely  soluble 
in  alcohol,  dilute  solutions  of  sodium  hydrate,  phosphate,  borate,  etc. 
According  to  the  author  it  may  be  given  in  moderately  large  doses  without 
inconvenience.  It  is  not  dissolved  in  the  acid  liquids  of  the  stomach,  but 
passes  into  the  intestines  where,  on  account  of  the  alkaline  liquids  present,  it 
dissolves  and  exerts  its  effects.  It  is  recommended  for  chronic  diarrhoea,  in 
doses  of  0*2  to  o'5  gramme,  three  times  a  day. 
