422 
Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Aug.,  1891 
mountains,  and  for  the  tourist  as  well  as  for  those  who  prefer  a  summer  vaca- 
tion without  prolonged  travelling. 
Proceedings  of  the  eighth  annual  Convention  of  the  National  Confectioner 's 
Association  of  the  United  States.  Philadelphia  :  Confectioners'  Journal  Print. 
Pp.  194. 
The  convention  was  held  in  St.  Louis,  May  5,  1891.  The  book  contains  the 
minutes  with  the  discussions  ;  also  the  official  reports,  circulars  and  communi- 
cations of  the  year. 
Pharmakopcefragen . 
Pharmacopceial  questions. 
A  reprint  from  the  transactions  of  the  tenth  international  medical  Congress, 
held  at  Berlin  in  1890,  containing  reports  by  A.  Langgaard  and  Bruno  Hirsch 
on  questions  connected  with  the  elaboration  of  a  pharmacopoeia,  and  with  the 
desirable  uniformity  in  strength  of  preparations  recognized  by  several  or  all 
pharmacopoeias. 
A  Study  of  Coca  Leaves  and  their  alkaloids.    By  O.  Hesse. 
Reprint  from  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal,  London,  June  6,  13,  1891. 
Sur  r  Aristol.    Par  L.  Reuter. 
Ueber  die  Bezielncngen  des  Filixsauregehaltes  zur  Wirkung  des  Extr. 
Filicts  czthereum.    Von  L.  Reuter. 
On  aristol,  reprint  from  Repertoire  de  Pharmacie. — On  the  relation  of  the 
amount  of  filicic  acid  to  the  activity  of  the  oleoresin  of  male  fern  ;  reprint 
from  Pharmaceutische  Zeitung,  April  31,  1891. 
Resection  of  the  Optic  Nerve ;  by  L-  Webster  Fox,  M.  D. 
Reprint  from  The  Medical  and  Surgical  Reporter,  May  30,  1891. 
Pepsin.    A  review  of  the  pepsin  question,  by  Dr.  C.  F.  Witte. 
Reprint  from  Notes  on  New  Remedies,  Febr.  and  March,  1891. 
OBITUARY. 
Carl  Wilhelm  von  Ncegeli,  professor  of  botany  at  the  University  of  Munich, 
died  May  10,  aged  74  years.  He  was  born  near  Zurich,  and  studied  medicine 
and  natural  history  at  the  universities  of  Zurich,  Geneva  and  Berlin.  In  1849 
he  became  professor  in  Zurich,  then  in  Freiburg,  and  from  1859  to  1888  he  was 
attached  to  the  university  of  Munich.  His  extensive  labors  in  vegetable 
anatomy,  physiology  and  morphology  made  his  name  known  to  scientific 
botanists  everywhere.  In  systematic  botany  he  was  especially  interested  in 
the  study  of  the  algae  and  of  the  genus  Hieracium  and  the  hybrids  of  its 
species. 
Carl  Johann  Maximowicz  died  at  St.  Petersburg,  February  16,  aged  64  years. 
During  his  extensive  travels  in  Japan,  Siberia  and  adjoining  countries  he 
thoroughly  studied  their  floras,  and  he  described  also  the  plants  collected  by 
several  Russian  travellers  in  Central  Asia.  Among  the  systematic  botanists  he 
stood  in  the  front  ranks. 
Moritz  Richard  Schomburgk,  Ph.D.,  director  of  the  botanical  gardens  at 
