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Obituary. 
/Am.  Jonr.  l'harm. 
I   December,  1899. 
founded  in  1841.  He  took  the  Society's  course  in  pharmacy,  and  in  1847 
became  a  member  under  its  charter.  This  same  year  he  left  the  Conduit 
Street  house  and  purchased  the  business  of  Mr.  Sterry  in  New  St.  Dorset 
Square,  of  which  he  remained  the  proprietor  for  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
It  may  be  mentioned  here  that  he  also  became  the  proprietor  of  the  Con- 
duit Street  store  about  twelve  years  ago.  Mr.  Greenish  soon  manifested 
much  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  contributing 
many  papers  to  the  evening  meetings.  He  was  elected  a  member  of  its  Coun- 
cil in  1871,  serving  continuously  to  1895,  when  he  resigned  on  account  of  fail- 
ing health.  He  was  President  of  the  Society  from  1880  to  1882.  In  1874  he 
attended  as  delegate  of  the  Society  the  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress 
at  St.  Petersburg,  and  it  was  through  his  instrumentality  that  the  Congress 
met  in  London  in  1880.  Mr.  Greenish  was  one  of  the  best  known  of  English 
pharmacists  on  the  continent  of  Europe,  having  made  many  visits  there.  He 
was  a  strong  advocate  for  the  better  education  of  pharmacists.  In  the  con- 
duct of  his  own  business  he  made  many  of  the  products  not  usually  made  by 
the  dispenser,  including  such  substances  as  amy!  nitrite,  etc.  He  devoted  con- 
siderable attention  to  the  use  of  the  microscope,  and  believed  in  its  employ- 
ment as  an  aid  in  pharmaceutical  research. 
Mr.  Greenish  was  an  honorary  member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  and  in  1884  was  elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy.  He  was  also  an  honorary  member  of  various  Euro- 
pean pharmaceutical  societies. 
Grant  Ai^EN,  one  of  the  most  voluminous  and  versatile  of  modern 
writers,  died  at  Hindshead,  Surrey  (England),  on  October  25th.  He  was  born 
in  Kingston,  Canada,  in  1848,  and  was  educated  in  the  United  States,  in  France, 
King  Edward's  School,  Birmingham,  and  Merton  College,  Oxford,  where  he 
was  graduated  with  honors  in  1871.  He  began  to  publish  at  an  early  date,  and 
soon  acquired  a  reputation  as  a  popular  writer  upon  scientific  subjects,  espe- 
cially the  Darwinian  theory  of  evolution.  It  was  in  1884  that  he  began  to 
write  fiction,  and,  while  his  contributions  to  this  class  of  literature  were  nu- 
merous, it  was  as  a  scientific  writer  that  he  performed  his  most  notable  and  en- 
during work.  The  reason  for  this  lies  in  the  fact  that  he  loved  science  and 
wrote  fiction  for  the  purpose  of  securing  an  income.  Some  of  his  botanical 
works  are  used  by  teachers,  and  of  his  writings  we  may  mention  "Physiological 
^Esthetics,"  "The  Color  Sense,"  "The  Evolutionist  at  Large,"  "Flowers  and 
Their  Pedigrees,"  "  Charles  Darwin  "  and  "  Force  and  Energy." 
Ai<cornoco  Bark. — C.  Hartwick  (Schweiz.  Woch.  Chem.  Pharm.,  1899,  p. 
27)  describes  the  product  of  Bowdichia  virgilioides ,  Kunth.  (N.  O.  Caesalpi- 
niaceae),  a  South  American  plant,  possessing  more  active  properties  than  jabo- 
randi  leaves. 
Cultivation  of  Ipkcac  in  India. — David  Hooper  (Ph.  Jour.,  London, 
1899,  p.  384)  records  the  fact  that  Psychotria  Ipecacuanha,  when  grown  in 
phosphatic  manure  of  India,  produces  double  the  amount  of  root  (by  weight) 
than  when  grown  in  natural  soil. 
