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Obituary. 
Am  Jour.  Pharru. 
May.  1893. 
few  qualities  considered  in  this  day  to  be  necessary  to  success.  Young  men 
are  admonished  that  the  way  to  be  successful  is  to  be  grasping,  selfish  and 
pushing,  and  insensibly  they  grow  up  with  the  idea  of  each  man  for  himself ; 
but  here  was  a  man  who  achieved  success  in  life  by  a  diametrically  opposite 
course.  He  was  modest,  retiring,  kind,  gentle  and  devoid  of  all  ambition. 
Truth  was  the  object  of  his  search  ;  he  endeavored  to  ascertain  the  facts  and 
draw  the  right  inferences  ;  justice  was  the  bed-rock  of  his  character." 
OBITUARY. 
Alphonse  Louis  Pierre  Pyrame  De  Candolle,  professor  of  botany  and  director 
of  the  botanic  garden  at  Geneva,  Switzerland,  died  in  that  city  April  5  last, 
in  the  eighty-seventh  year  of  his  age.  He  was  the  son  of  the  celebrated 
botanist,  Augustin  Pyrame  De  Candolle,  and  was  born  in  Paris,  France,  October 
28,  1806.  The  father  having,  in  1816,  accepted  a  call  as  professor  of  botany  to 
Geneva,  Alphonse  completed  his  education  at  the  university  named,  studying 
jurisprudence,  and  also  botany,  the  latter  science  with  such  success  that  already 
in  1830  he  published  a  monograph  on  the  campanulaceae,  and  in  1832  on  the 
anonacese,  which  works  were  followed  in  1835  by  his  "  Introduction  a.  1'  etude 
de  la  botanique."  In  1834  he  succeeded  his  father  in  the  professorship,  and 
after  the  latter's  death  in  1841  continued,  with  the  aid  of  other  botanists,  the 
publication  of  the  large  work  ' '  Prodromus  systematis  naturalis  regni  vege- 
tabilis  "  (complete  in  21  volumes).  Among  his  other  famous  works  may  be 
mentioned  "  Geographie  botanique  raisonne  "  (1855),  "  Histoire  des  sciences 
et  des  savants  depuis  deux  siecles  "  (1873),  "  Origin e  des  plantes  cultivees  " 
(1883),  and  "  Monographias  phanerogamarum  prodromi  nunc  continuatio 
nunc  reviso  "  (1878  to  1881)  ;  the  last-named  work  was  issued  with  the  colla- 
boration of  his  son  Casimir  Pyrame. 
Constanz  S.  Manz,  died  April  19,  1892,  in  Lyons,  la.,  where  he  was  born 
March  1,  i860.  His  father  being  a  pharmacist,  he  learned  the  business  under 
him,  and  some  time  after  graduating  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy in  1881,  succeeded  his  father  in  business.    He  left  a  widow  and  two  sons. 
William  Arthur  Haas,  of  South  Easton,  Pa.,  a  promising  senior  student  at 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  died  at  his  home  in  March.  The  Zeta 
Phi  Society  adopted,  March  25,  the  following  resolutions  : 
Whereas,  It  has  pleased  Almighty  God  in  his  infinite  wisdom  to  remove 
from  our  midst  our  fellow  class-mate  William  Haas  ; 
Resolved,  That  we  do  most  sincerely  miss  him  and  mourn  his  loss,  and  that 
we  feel  that  pharmacy  has  lost  one  of  its  most  promising  students. 
Resolved,  That  a  record  of  his  death  be  put  on  the  minutes  of  the  societ}-, 
and  that  a  letter  of  condolence  be  sent  to  his  bereaved  parents. 
Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  published  in  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy,  the  daily  papers  and  in  the  Alumni  Report. 
Howard  F.  Pyfer, 
Robert  W.  Smink, 
Harry  R.  Parvix, 
Committee. 
