Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
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Catalogue  of  the  Class. 
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Directions  for  the  recognition  and  accurate  examination  of  all  articles  con- 
tained in  the  German  pharmacopoeia. 
The  object  of  this  little  work  is  to  explain  the  tests  for  identity  and  purity 
which  are  given  in  the  pharmacopoeia.  The  quantitative  determinations  are 
usually  given  by  the  volumetric  method  ;  where  the  gravimetric  method  i8 
preferable,  the  conrse  to  be  pursued  is  briefly  described.  For  articles  of  the 
•materia  medica  the  description  of  the  drugs  are  given  as  contained  in  the 
pharmacopoeia,  with  some  additions  where  they  appeared  to  be  desirable. 
The  German  Pharmacopoeia  translated  into  English  by  Mr.  C.  L.  Loch  man, 
which  we  noticed  in  our  last  number,  will  be  sent  by  mail  on  remitting  $2.25 
(not  $2.50  as  stated  before;  to  the  publishers,  Messrs.  David  D  Elder  &  Co., 
Philadelphia.  The  work  will  be  a  valuable  addition  to  the  library  of  all 
physicians  and  pharmacists. 
OBITUARY. 
Louis  Jean  Rudolph  Agassiz  the  eminent  naturalist,  died  at  Boston  on  De- 
cember 14.  He  was  born  at  Motiers,  Canton  of  Freiburg,  Switzerland,  May 
28th,  1807,  where  his  father  labored  as  clergyman,  his  ancestors  having  emi- 
grated from  France  with  the  Huguenots  near  the  close  of  the  17th  century.  At 
Zurich  and  Heidelberg  he  studied  medicine,  afterwards,  in  Munich,  natural 
history  and  philosophy.  A  description  of  116  species  of  fishes  collected  by 
Spix  in  Brazil,  was  published  by  him  in  1829—1831.  From  18r»3  to  1842  he 
published  (with  C.  Vogt  and  E.  Desor)  a  work  on  fossil  fishes,  from  1839  to 
1845,  one  on  the  fresh  water  fishes  of  Central  Europe,  and  in  1844  one  on 
British  fossil  fishes.  In  1840  appeared  his  Etudes  sur  les  glaciers,  which  was 
followed  in  1847  by  his  Systeme  glaciaire.    He  arrived  in  the  United  States  in 
1846,  became  professor  of  zoology  and  geology  at  the  Lawrence  Scientific 
School  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  was  in  1852  to  1857  in  a  similar  capacity  in  Charles- 
ton, S.  C,  being  in  the  meantime  engaged  in  scientific  labors  in  connection 
with  the  coast  survey,  and  afterwards  accepted  the  chair  of  zoology  and 
geology  at  Harvard  University,  where  he  labored  successfully  until  an  attack 
of  paralysis  terminated  his  career.  His  journeys  to  Lake  Superior,  to  Brazil, 
€tc,  his  contributions  to  the  natural  history  of  North  America,  and  other 
works  from  his  pen,  are  monuments  which  will  always  keep  his  name  among 
those  of  the  most  faithful  devotees  to  natural  sciences. 
CATALOGUE 
OF  THE 
Class  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
FOR   THE   FIFTY-THIRD    SESSION,  1873-74. 
With  a  List  of  their  Preceptors  and  Localities. 
MATRICULANTS.  TOWN  OR  COl 
Acker,  Louis  K.  Phillipsburg, 
Ackermann,  David,  Bangor, 
Allen,  James  A.  Phillipsburg, 
Bakus,  Edmund,  Cincinnati, 
Baldwin,  James  H.  Kewanee, 
STATE.  PRECEPTOR. 
Pennsylvania.  George  R.  Vernon. 
"  R.  Shoemaker. 
New  Jersey.  Dungan,  Wheeler  &  Pape 
Ohio.  Isaac  W.  Smith. 
Illinois.  S.  M.  Hurd. 
