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Obituary. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  1890. 
Comparative  Microscopic-Pharmacognostic  Examinations  of  some  officinal 
leaves  with  regard  to  their  adulterations. 
An  inaugural  dissertation  on  a  subject  of  much  interest  and  importance.  The 
results  cannot  be  sufficiently  condensed  for  a  brief  review. 
We  take  pleasure  in  acknowledging  the  receipt  of  a  number  of  reprints  from 
various  journals  of  valuable  papers  by  Messrs.  Bertram  &  Gildemeister,  Mr.  H. 
Bormewyn,  Dr.  J.  E.  De  Vrij,  Dr.  O.  Hesse  and  Mr.  Ludwig  Reuter. 
The  Agricultural  Grasses  and  Forage  Plants  of  the  United  States,  and  such 
foreign  kinds  as  have  been  introduced.  By  Dr.  Geo.  Vasey,  Botanist. 
With  an  appendix  on  the  chemical  composition  of  grasses,  by  Clifford  Richard- 
son, and  a  glossary  of  terms  used  in  describing  grasses.  A  new,  revised  and 
enlarged  edition,  with  114  plates,  published  by  authority  of  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture.    Washington  :    1889.    Svo.    Pp.  148. 
A  very  interesting  publication  by  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  valuable 
alike  to  the  agriculturist  and  to  the  botanist,  containing,  in  addition  to  the 
plates,  descriptions  of  the  plants,  and  an  account  of  their  distribution,  culture, 
value  as  fodder,  etc.  The  portion  written  by  Mr.  Richardson  gives,  in  tabular 
form,  the  results  of  136  analyses  of  different  grasses,  calculated  for  the  dry 
substance  and  also  for  the  fresh  substance  or  for  hay,  with  an  average  amount 
of  water  equalling  14*30  per  cent. 
Bericht  der  Wetterauischen  Gesellschaft  fiir  die  gesammte  Naturkunde  zu 
Hanau,  1SS7-1S89,  erstattet  von  dem  Direktor  derselben  Fr.  Becker,  Realschul- 
Direktor.    Hanau.    1S89.    Pp.  no. 
Report  of  the  Wetteravian  Society  for  the  Natural  Sciences. 
Among  the  scientific  papers  are  essays  on  butterflies,  plants,  diamond,  fossil 
shells  of  the  genus  Acme,  acoustic  researches  and  geological  investigations. 
OBITUARY. 
William  J.  J/cConn,  Ph.G.,  class  1884,  died  of  consumption  at  Trenton,  N.  J., 
where  he  was  in  business,  December  17,  1889.  He  was  born  in  Philadelphia, 
August  13,  1864. 
Walter  T.  Baker,  Ph.G.,  class  1876,  died  of  pneumonia  January  14,  1890,  aged 
45  years  ;  he  was  in  business  at  Nineteenth  and  Oxford  Streets,  Philadelphia. 
Benedict  Nicholas  Rapp,  Ph.G.,  class  1883,  of  Trenton,  N.  J.,  conducted  a 
pharmacy  at  Twenty-eighth  and  Poplar  Streets,  Philadelphia,  where  he  died 
January  25th. 
Cornelius  W.  Stryker,  Ph.G.,  class  1882,  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Stryker 
&  Ogden,  who  succeeded  Prof.  Remington  in  business;  he  died  in  this  city, 
February  10th,  aged  30  years. 
William  P.  Burnett,  a  senior  student  of  the  class  1889-90,  died  in  Camden, 
N.  J.,  February  20th,  aged  20  years. 
Edgar  H.  Naudain,  Ph.G.,  class  1885,  was  born  in  Chester  County,  Pa.,  June 
3,  1865,  and  died  of  consumption  near  Middletown,  Del.,  August  2,  1889.  He 
learned  the  drug  business  in  Wilmington,  Del.,  and  studied  at  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy,  presenting  a  graduation  thesis  on  Pinckneya  pubens,  an 
abstract  of  which  was  published  in  this  journal  1885,  p.  161.  Afterward  he 
conducted  a  pharmacy  in  Philadelphia  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  and  Poplar  streets, 
until  failing  health  compelled  him  to  relinquish  business. 
