5  7o  Pharmaceutical  Events  in  1870.       [  iugusrr92'o: 
DIED  IN  1870. 
OTTO. 
Friedrich  Julius  Otto,  born  January  8,  1809,  in  Grossenhain, 
Germany,  was  an  apotheker,  then  teacher,  and  in  1833  professor 
at  the  Collegium  Carolinum,  Braunschweig,  until  his  death  on 
January  12,  1870.  In  1840  he  translated  Graham's  Elements  and 
in  1854  he  enlarged  same  into  a  master  work  "Ausfiihrliches  Lehr- 
buch  der  Chemie."  In  1856  he  published,  together  with  his  son, 
Dr.  Robert  Otto,  of  the  University  of  Greifswald,  the  classic  work 
"Auleitung  zur  Ausmittelung  der  Gifte"  and  thus  became  one  of 
the  pioneers  in  legal  chemical  analysis.  He  modified  and  improved 
the  method  of  the  Belgian  chemist,  Jean  Servais  Stas,  so  that  the 
Stas-Otto  process  of  the  detection  of  individual  alkaloids  is  still 
considered  authorative  to-day.  He  was  also  a  collaborator  on 
Bolley's  "Handbuch  der  Technologic." 
BOIvLEY. 
Pompeius  Alexander  Bolley,  born  May  7,  181 2,  in  Heidelberg, 
since  1838  professor  in  Arau  and  since  1855  at  the  polytechnicum 
in  Zurich,  Switzerland,  until  his  death,  August  3,  1870.  In  1852 
he  published  his  classic  work  "Handbuch  der  technisch-chemischen 
Untersuchungen."  Bolley  is  also  the  father  of  the  renowned  work 
in  8  volumes  "Handbuch  der  Chemischen  Technologic"  (Braun- 
schweig, 1862),  in  which  celebrated  scientists  of  the  times  were  col- 
laborators. He  was  an  authority  on  coloring  substances  and  in  1868 
published  "Altes  und  Neues  ans  der  Farbenchemie."  His  many 
researches  and  those  of  the  students  in  his  laboratory  are  published 
in  Annalen  Chemie  und  Pharmacte  and  in  Schweizerische  polytech- 
nische  Zeitschrift. 
EHRMANN. 
Martin  J.  Ehrmann,  born  1809,  was  professor  of  pharmacy  in 
Briinn  and  later  in  Vienna.  He  wrote  a  commentary  on  the  Aus- 
trian Pharmacopoeia  in  four  volumes.  "Lehrbuch  der  Pharmazie 
nachdem  gegenwarligen  Staudihrer  Gumdwissusschaften,"  Vienna, 
1826-28  and  1832-33.  In  1847  he  founded  the  Oesterreickische 
Zeitschrift  ftlr  Pharmazie.    He  died  in  1870. 
