Am.  Jour.  Phanu. 
Jan.,  1885. 
Obituary. 
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OBITUARY. 
Joseph  Janvier  Woodward,  M.D.,  Major  and  Brevet  Lieut.  Colonel 
U.  S.  A.,  died  near  Philadelphia,  August  18th,  aged  fifty-two  years.  He 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1853,  was  appointed 
Assistant  Surgeon  U.  S.  A.  in  1861,  and  in  1866  was  assigned  to  the  duty  of 
editing  the  "  Medical  and  Surgical  History  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion." 
His  labors  in  connection  with  this  work  as  well  as  with  the  Army  Medical 
Museum,  and  more  particularly  his  microscopical  researches  and  photo- 
graphing, gained  for  him  a  world-wide  reputation.  Dr.  Woodward  had 
been  ailing  for  several  years,  and  on  several  occasions  visited  Europe  for 
the  benefit  of  his  health. 
Robert  Empie  Rogers,  M.  D.  died  suddenly  in  Philadelphia,  Septem- 
ber 6th,  last,  aged  seventy  years.  He  graduated  in  medicine  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  in  1836,  was  afterwards  Professor  of  Chemistry  in 
the  University  of  Virginia,  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College.  The  chair  in  the  last  institution,  made  vacant  by  his 
death,  was  filled  by  the  appointment  of  Prof.  J.  W.  Mallett  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia. 
James  T.  Lukens  died  in  Philadelphia  November  30,  being  in  the 
seventy-eighth  year  of  his  age.  He  learned  the  trade  of  carriage  making, 
and  was  subsequently,  for  a  number  of  years,  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  mineral  water,  the  firm  being  Lukens  &  Lippincott,  and  the  business 
from  which  Mr.  Lukens  retired  many  years  ago  being  still  carried  on  by 
the  successors  of  the  other  partner.  The  annexed  cut  represents  the  first 
soda  water  apparatus  constructed  by  the  deceased. 
We  have  been  informed  of  the  decease  of  the  following  graduates  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  : 
John  H.  Palethorp,  Class  1854,  graduated  afterwards  in  medicine  from 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  was  for  a  number  of  years  engaged  in 
the  real  estate  business.  ' 
Edward  Jefferson,  Class  1873,  died  suddenly  at  Atlanta,  Georgia, 
from  an  overdose  of  morphine  taken  to  relieve  urjelnic  convulsions. 
John  L.  Williams,  Class  1874,  was  killed  by  being  thrown  out  of  a 
carriage  near  Bloomfield,  Perry  County,  Pa.,  September  4th,  last. 
C.  Frank  Mooke,  Class  1877,  dierl  at  North  East,  Md.,  of  brain  fever 
aged  twenty-nine  years.  He  was  engaged  in  the  drug  business  at  Cherry 
Hill,  Md. 
Robert  F.  Finck,  Class  1884,  died  December  10,  aged  twenty-six  years. 
