Am.  Jour.  Pharm.\ 
Sept.,  i890.  J 
Obituary. 
479 
Recovery  of  absorbed  Morphine  from  the  urine,  the  blood  and  the  tissues. 
By  T.  G.  Wormley,  M.D.,  etc.    Pp.  n. 
A  reprint  from  the  May  number  of  the  University  Medical  Magazine,  giv- 
ing the  results  of  observations  on  an  important  subject,  which  have  been  made 
with  Professor  Wormley's  accustomed  circumspection. 
Upon  a  Collection  of  Plants  made  by  Mr.  G.  C.  Nealley,  in  the  region  of  the 
Rio  Grande  in  Texas,  from  Brazos  Santiago  to  El  Paso  County.  By  J.  M. 
Coulter.    Pp.  37. 
This  is  the  second  pamphlet  issued  as  "  Contributions  from  the  United 
States  National  Herbarium."  It  gives  the  names,  localities  of  collection  and 
other  observations  on  903  species  of  plants  collected  as  stated  above. 
Identite  de  la  Dengue  et  de  la  Grippe-Influenza. — Par  le  docteur  Jules 
Rouvier,  Professeur  de  clinique  obstetricale  et  gynecologique  de  Beyrouth. 
Svo.    Pp.  48.    Price,  1  franc. 
Identity  of  dengue  with  grippe-influenza. 
OBITUARY. 
Alexander  Von  Bunge,  the  nestor  of  botanist,  died  in  Dorpat,  aged  87  years. 
He  was  of  German  descent,  born  at  Kiew  in  1803,  studied  at  Dorpat  medicine 
and  natural  sciences,  and  took  the  degree  of  M.D.  in  1825.  Accompanying  his 
tutor,  Ledebour,  the  celebrated  botanist,  in  1826,  to  Siberia  and  the  Altai  Moun- 
tains, he  subsequently  was  engaged  in  botanical  explorations  in  China,  the 
steppes  of  the  Volga,  and  other  parts  of  the  Russian  Empire  and  of  Asia.  In 
1834  he  became  professor  of  botany  in  the  University  of  Kazan,  and  from  1836 
he  occupied  the  same  chair  in  Dorpat,  until  in  1867  he  resigned,  afterward 
devoting  his  time  altogether  to  scientific  researches.  His  contributions  to 
botan)'  embrace  the  floras  of  different  sections  of  Russia,  the  Altai  Mountains, 
parts  of  China,  Mongolia,  etc. 
Samuel  S.  Bunting,  Ph.M.,  a  graduate  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy of  1850,  and  for  many  years  one  of  the  Trustees,  also  Treasurer  of  the 
College,  died  at  his  residence,  Greenbank,  near  Secane,  Pa.,  August  15,  1890. 
A  more  extended  notice  of  his  life  and  faithful  services  to  the  college  will  be 
prepared  by  the  proper  committee. 
John  Franklin  Uildebrand,  Ph.G.,  class  1887,  died  of  typhoid  fever,  eighteen 
months  after  graduation,  at  York,  Pa.,  aged  24  years. 
Frank  P.  Lins,  Ph.G.,  class  1877,  died  in  Philadelphia,  May  17th  last,  of 
consumption,  aged  40  years.  He  had  been  in  business  in  this  city,  but  owing 
to  declining  health  he  went  to  Colorado  about  two  years  ago.  His  death  was 
hastened  by  an  attack  of  the  grippe  in  January  last. 
Samuel  Robert  Means,  Ph.G.,  M.D.,  died  at  St.  Elizabeth  Asylum,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  August  1,  in  his  twenty-seventh  year.  He  was  born  in 
Ferguson  Valley,  Mifflin  County,  Pa.,  received  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  at  the  Iyewistown  Academy,  and  after  graduating  from  the  Com- 
mercial College  in  Philadelphia,  entered  the  drug  store  of  D.  L.  Stackhouse 
and  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1886.  In  1889  he 
received  his  medical  degree  from  the  National  Medical  College  of  the  Coluni- 
