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January,  19 18. 
made  an  honorary  member.  He  appreciated  this  very  much  and 
frequently  attended  their  meetings.  The  last  one  was  in  191 3  at  the 
Catskill  Mountain  House. 
Mr.  Holzhauer  was  at  the  Holzhauer  Drug  Store  in  his  usual 
good  health  apparently,  on  Monday  morning,  November  19;  he 
went  home  to  lunch  with  his  son  about  one  o'clock,  had  a  nap  and 
was  having  his  usual  romp  with  the  grandchildren  when,  without 
a  moment's  warning  (with  the  youngest  in  his  arms),  he  was  stricken 
at  four  o'clock  and  at  four-thirty  had  passed  away  from  a  hem- 
orrhage of  the  brain.  The  funeral  services  were  held  at  the  High 
Street  Presbyterian  Church  November  21.  The  gathering  was  a 
notable  one.  People  from  every  walk  in  life,  men  and  women,  were 
there,  with  many  prominent  business  men  of  the  city,  and  phar- 
macists from  such  nearby  points  as  could  gather  on  short  notice, 
Acting  President  A.  R.  L.  Dohme  and  four  ex-presidents  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  numerous  ex-presidents 
of  the  New  Jersey  Association  being  in  evidence.  Burial  was  in 
Mt.  Pleasant  Cemetery,  of  which  he  had  been  one  of  the  managers. 
Mr.  Holzhauer  is  survived  by  a  widow,  Mrs.  Louise  S.  Holzhauer, 
a  son  and  four  grandchildren ;  also  by  two  sisters. 
PODOPHYLLUM  PELTATUM  LINNE.1 
NOTES  ON  THE  TIME  OF  COLLECTION. 
By  G.  A.  Russell, 
Washington,  D.  C. 
The  collection  of  Podophyllum  peltatum,  or,  as  it  is  more  com- 
monly known,  mandrake,  is  carried  on  in  more  or  less  of  a  hap- 
hazard manner  through  the  entire  growing  season.  The  collector 
does  not  concern  himself  with  the  quality  of  the  rhizome,  his  one 
object  being  to  collect  as  much  as  possible  each  day  in  which  he 
labors.  From  the  results  obtained  in  this  investigation  it  is  clearly 
shown  that  a  campaign  carried  out  with  the  idea  of  giving  the  col- 
lector proper  information  as  to  the  time  of  collection  would  benefit 
not  only  the  collector  but  the  manufacturer  of  podophyllin  as  well. 
1  Published  by  permission  of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 
