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Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharni 
June,  1893. 
reagents  for  albuminoids,  and  destitute  of  reducing  power  ;  one  having  a  dex- 
trogyre  rotation  was  met  with  in  mare's  and  ass'  milk  ;  the  other,  laevogyre, 
in  woman's  milk.    These  new  compounds  are  being  further  investigated. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Australasia,  with  which  is  incorporated  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  Victoria,  Melbourne. 
The  36th  annual  report  gives  a  brief  account  of  the  transactions  of  the 
Council  and  of  the  Society,  with  lists  of  members,  honorary  members,  etc. 
Annual  Address  before  the  State  Board  of  Health  of  Pennsylvania,  by  S. 
G.  Dixon,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Hygiene  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
Pp.  15. 
The  address  treats  of  tuberculosis  and  its  prevention. 
A  monograph  on  Cascara  Sagrada.  A  condensed  compilation  of  the  most 
recent  and  valuable  literature  on  this  important  drug.  Detroit  :  F.  Stearns  & 
Co.    Pp.  17. 
This  little  pamphlet  treats  briefly  of  the  botanical  and  chemical  history  of 
the  drug  named,  and  gives  more  in  detail,  a  considerable  number  of  abstracts 
referring  to  the  medical  action  and  therapeutic  uses  of  this  valuable  bark. 
A  copy  of  the  pamphlet  will  be  mailed  to  those  interested  upon  application  to 
the  publisher. 
OBITUARY. 
Daniel  Sexton  fones,  Ph.G.,  class  1843,  died  at  his  residence  May  12.  He 
was  born  near  Columbus,  O.,  November  13,  1822,  was  educated  at  a  boarding 
school,  at  Burlington,  N.  J.,  and  served  his  apprenticeship  in  pharmacy  with 
Henry  Zollickoffer,  Sixth  and  Pine  Streets,  Philadelphia.  His  graduating  thesis 
on  Arum  triphyllum,  was  published  in  this  journal  in  1843.  In  1S46  he  began 
business  for  himself  at  1201  Spruce  Street,  where  he  continued  until  his  death. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1845,  and 
took  an  active  part  in  its  welfare,  participating  in  former  years  in  the  pharma- 
ceutical meetings,  and  serving  the  College  frequently  on  committees  and  for 
many  years  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  His  widow  and  a  daughter 
survive  him. 
Albert  F.  Stifel,  Ph.G.,  class  1873,  died  in  his  native  city,  Wheeling,  W.  Va., 
April  10,  after  a  lingering  illness,  caused  by  a  tumor  on  the  optic  nerve.  He 
was  born  July  2 2,  1855,  learned  the  drug  business  in  Wheeling  and  -in  Phila- 
delphia, and  after  graduating  in  this  city,  clerked  in  New  York,  until  he  went 
to  Germany  to  study  medicine  at  Wiirzburg  and  Leipzig,  graduating  from  the 
latter  university  in  1879,  an^  subsequently  spending  six  months  in  the  hospitals 
at  Vienna.  At  Wheeling,  where  he  settled  after  his  return,  he  soon  secured 
a  lucrative  practice,  and  was  selected  to  fill  a  number  of  responsible  and 
honorable  positions.    He  leaves  a  widow  and  3  children. 
Edmund  Francis  Bocking,  a  member  of  the  last  senior  class,  died  in  this 
city,  April  2,  of  inflammation  of  the  brain  ;  the  body  was  taken  to  his  former 
home  at  Wheeling. 
Frederick  Henry  Pashley  also  a  senior  student,  died  at  his  home,  Bridgeport, 
N.  J.,  March  24,  of  consumption. 
