Obituary. 
/Am.  Jour.  Phari 
\     October,  1899. 
of  burning  of  bodies  requiring  a  supporter  of  combustion  is  independent  of 
the  density  of  the  atmosphere  in  which  they  are  burnt.  This  question  was 
answered  in  the  affirmative.  In  addition  to  his  other  investigations,  physiologi- 
cal chemistry  likewise  received  a  share  of  his  attention. 
Frankland's  scientific  attainments  won  for  him  the  highest  honors  in  his 
own  country,  and  many  honorary  distinctions  from  abroad  as  well. 
Anton  SchurER  v.  Waldheim,  the  most  prominent  representative  of 
Austrian  pharmacy,  died  at  Vienna,  on  August  13th,  in  the  seventieth  year  of 
his  age. 
Waldheim  was  born  in  Vienna,  and  his  education  was  obtained  in  the  schools 
of  that  city.  In  1846  he  finished  a  course  at  the  Academic  Gymnasium,  after 
which  he  applied  himself  to  the  study  of  philosophy  for  two  years.  Mean- 
while (in  1846)  he  also  took  up  the  study  of  pharmacy  in  his  father's  Apotheke, 
and  from  1852  to  1854  attended  the  course  in  pharmacy  at  the  University  of 
Vienna,  receiving  the  degree  of  master  of  pharmacy  in  the  latter  year.  Later 
on  he  served  in  pharmacies  in  Dresden,  Paris  and  London,  and  in  1856,  on  the 
death  of  his  father,  took  charge  of  the  latter's  Apotheke  in  Vienna,  which  he 
held  during  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
Waldheim  was  officially  connected  with  a  large  number  of  organizations  for 
promoting  the  interests  of  pharmacy,  and  for  more  than  thirty  years  devoted 
himself,  at  the  sacrifice  of  much  time  and  money,  to  this  cause.  He  was  the 
chief  spirit  in  the  movement  for  the  adoption  of  an  International  Pharmacopoeia, 
and  this  undertaking  failing  in  its  accomplishment,  he  became  an  advocate  for 
the  adoption  of  an  International  Pharmacopoeia  of  Potent  Remedies,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  committee  for  carrying  out  plans  for  the  organization  of  an 
International  Pharmacopoeia  Commission.  He  was  the  representative  of  the 
Austrian  Apotheker  Verein  at  the  International  Pharmaceutical  Congresses  at 
Paris  (1864),  Vienna  (1868),  St.  Petersburg  (1875),  London  (1881),  and  at 
Brussels  (1S85).  At  the  latter  Congress  he  was  also  the  representative  of  the 
Austrian  Government,  and  submitted  to  the  Congress  the  draft  of  an  Inter- 
national Pharmacopoeia.  At  St.  Petersburg  he  was  the  President,  and  for  his 
services  in  this  capacity  was  made  a  knight  of  the  Russian  Order  of  St.  Ann. 
He  was  also  a  knight  of  the  Franz  Joseph  Order  of  Austria. 
He  was  an  honorary  member  of  various  Continental  pharmaceutical  socie- 
ties ;  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference,  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  in  1889  was  elected 
an  honorary  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
New  Economical  Plants  of  East  Africa.— One  of  these  is  a  tree  of  the 
N.  O.  Apocynacese,  viz.,  Mascarenhasia  elastica,  K.  Schum.,  which  yields 
caoutchouc.  Another  is  Canarium  Liebertianum,  Engl.,  the  bark  of  which 
yields  a  resin  that  much  resembles  olibanum.  Another  is  Erythrophloeum 
guiniense,  Don.,  the  wood  of  which  is  valuable  and  the  bark  contains  erythro- 
phloein.  The  fruit  of  Cordyla  africana,  Lonr.,  yields  an  edible  leguminous 
fruit— Notzbl.  d.  Berl.  bot.  Gart.,  1899. 
UnGanda  Aloes.— W.  A.  H.  Naylor  and  J.  J.  Bryant  {Pharm.  Jour., 
1899,  p.  296)  find  that  Unganda  aloes  approximates  in  character  and  tests  to 
Cape  aloes. 
