Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Dec,  1891. 
Obituary. 
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OBITUARY. 
William  G.  Buchanan,  Ph.G.,  died  in  Germantown,  Philadelphia,  October 
28  ;  he  graduated  in  1862,  and  was  for  many  years  in  the  employ  of  Rosen- 
garten  &  Sons. 
George  D.  Coggeshall,  Ph.G.,  died  at  Orange,  N.  J.,  November  5,  aged 
84  years.  For  many  years  he  had  been  the  oldest  living  Graduate  in  Pharmacy 
in  the  United  States,  having  graduated  at  Philadelphia  in  1828.  He  was  active 
in  organizing  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy,  served  that  institution 
faithfully  for  many  years  in  various  positions,  and  was  one  of  its  representa- 
tives at  the  Convention  of  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  in  185 1,  and  also  at  the 
National  Pharmaceutical  Convention  in  1852,  serving  in  that  year  as  the  first 
recording  secretary,  and  in  the  year  following,  1853,  as  first  vice-president  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  For  many  years  preceding  his 
death  he  had  retired  from  active  business. 
Edward  Donelly,  Ph.G.,  M.D.,  died  at  Piedmont,  Cal.,  in  November,  in  the 
seventieth  year  of  his  age.  He  was  born  in  Londonderry,  Ireland,  and  came 
to  Philadelphia  in  1831,  accompanying  his  widowed  mother.  He  graduated  in 
pharmacy  in  1843,  an^  afterwards  joined  the  exploring  expedition  of  Passed 
Midshipman  I.  G.  Strain,  U.S.N.,  returning  to  the  United  States  in  1852.  He 
graduated  in  medicine  in  1854,  and  during  the  civil  war  served  as  surgeon  with 
high  merit.  After  the  war  he  went  to  Pittsburgh,  and  in  1879,  he  removed  to 
San  Francisco,  where  he  continued  in  practice  as  a  physician  until  a  few 
months  before  his  death.  Volumes  XV  and  XXIII  of  this  Journal,  contain 
two  papers — on  poke  root,  and  on  cowrie  resin — from  Dr.  Donelly's  pen,  and 
the  Proceedings  of  the  Amer.  Phar.  Assoc.,  i860,  contain  a  valuable  paper  on 
Theobroma  Cacao,  which  was  intended  as  the  precursor  of  some  other  papers, 
that  remained  unfinished  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  war. 
Howard  Grant  Jones,  Ph.G.^.  died  near  Oxford,  Pa.,  November  20,  aged 
39  years.  Born  and  educated  in  Philadelphia,  he  learned  the  drug  business 
with  his  father,  Daniel  S.  Jones,  and  graduated  with  high  honors  in  1875. 
Afterwards  he  devoted  his  time  chiefly  to  the  study  of  chemistry,  mineralogy 
and  geology,  the  studies,  however,  being  interrupted  by  a  severe  attack  of 
brain  fever.  With  returning  health  he  resumed  his  mineralogical  excursions, 
and  it  was  upon  one  of  these  that  he  was  suddenly  prostrated. 
Professor  Dr.  Eduard  Reichardt  died  at  Jena,  October  26,  aged  64  years. 
He  was  born  at  Camburg,  became  a  pharmacist,  studied  at  Jena,  where,  in 
1854,  he  accepted  a  professorship  at  the  Pharmaceutical  and  Agricultural 
Institute,  became  connected  with  the  University  of  Jena'  as  private  lecturer  in 
1854,  and  in  1862  was  called  to  the  chair  of  technological  and  pharmaceutical 
chemistry.  In  1855  he  had  published  a  valuable  monograph  on  the  chemical 
constituents  of  the  cinchona  barks,  and  in  i860  one  on  the  Stassfurt  mines. 
Later  on  his  investigations  were  devoted  to  agricultural  chemistry,  to  disinfect- 
ants, to  potable  waters,  etc.  After  the  death  of  Professor  Hermann  Ludwig  in 
1873,  Professor  Reichardt  was  elected  his  successor  as  editor  of  Archiv  der 
Pharmacie,  and  continued  as  such  until  the  close  of  1889,  when  he  retired  from 
these  editorial  labors. 
