5§4 
Notes  and  News. — Obituary. 
J  Am,  Jour.  Pharm. 
I     October,  1896. 
Ueber  Scopolamin  und  Atroscin.  Von  O.  Hesse.  Reprint  from  Berichte 
der  Deutschen  Chemischen  Gesellschaft.    Vol.  29,  No.  11.    Berlin.  1896. 
Zur  Kenntniss  des  Hyoscins.  Von  O.  Hesse.  Reprint  from  Berichte 
der  Deutschen  Chemischen  Gesellschaft.    Vol.  29,  No.  11.    Berlin.  1896. 
Experimental  Farms.  Reports  to  the  Minister  of  Agriculture,  Ottawa, 
Canada,  1896.    William  Saunders,  Director.    Pp.  426. 
Twenty-ninth  Annum,  Announcement  of  the  Montreal  College  of 
Pharmacy.    Session  1896-1897. 
Twenty- sixth  Annual  Announcement  Louisville  College  of  Phar- 
macy.   Session  of  1896-1897. 
Eleventh  Annual  Announcement  Buffalo  College  of  Pharmacy. 
1 896-1 897. 
St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy.  Annual  Annoucement  for  1896- 
1897. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
Mr.  Gladstone,  in  a  recent  interview  with  some  members  of  the  British  Phar- 
maceutical Conference,  stated  that  he  held  two  impressions  in  regard  to  their 
body.  One  was  that  during  his  lifetime  there  had  been  a  very  great  advance 
in  their  profession,  by  increasing  knowledge,  and  improving  the  education  of 
those  who  conduct  the  chemist's  business.  It  is  really  a  wonderful  thing,  con- 
sidering the  millions  and  millions  of  prescriptions  made  up,  that  so  very  few 
mistakes  occur.  So  far  as  he  was  concerned  personally,  he  had  never  been  the 
subject  of  such  a  mistake,  although  he  had  lived  long  enough  to  run  the 
chance  of  it.  His  other  impression  was  that  chemists  as  a  body  are  very  united, 
for  he  remembered  that  about  sixty  years  ago,  some  measure  or  other  was  in- 
troduced into  the  House  of  Commons,  which  affected  chemists  and  druggists 
very  materially,  and  he  was  much  struck  with  the  steady  fire  of  opposition 
directed  against  the  measure.  Their  resistance,  so  far  as  he  could  recollect,  was 
entirely  successful. 
OBITUARY. 
G.  F.  H.  Markoe.  Notice  of  the  sudden  death  of  Professor  Markoe,  of 
Boston,  has  just  been  received  (September  25).  He  was  alone  in  his  laboratory 
and  death  is  supposed  to  have  been  due  to  paralysis.  He  was  about  60  years 
of  age. 
Isaac  N.  Coffee,  of  Cairo,  111. ,  President  of  the  Illinois  State  Board  of  Phar- 
macy, was  killed  on  his  way  to  the  train  on  July  27th,  by  Dr.  Crabtree,  a  well- 
known  druggist  of  the  same  place.  Mr.  Coffee's  death  was  the  result  of  an 
enmity  of  several  years'  standing,  and,  at  the  inquest  the  next  day,  the  jury 
returned  a  verdict  of  unjustifiable  homicide. 
President  Coffee  was  appointed  to  the  Illinois  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  in 
1892.  In  187 1  he  graduated  from  Transylvania  University,  Lexington,  Ky., 
and  in  1874  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  Since  1883  he  has 
been  engaged  in  the  drug  business  in  Cairo. 
