Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Dec,  1890. 
Varieties. 
639 
John  E.  Cook,  class  1873,  died  at  Media,  Pa.,  September  12,  of  hemorrhage 
of  the  lungs,  aged  37  years.  He  was  a  mechanic  of  no  mean  ability,  had  paid 
much  attention  to  botany,  was  for  some  years  assistant  to  the  chair  of  Botany 
and  Materia  Medica  in  the  Philadelphia  College,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
held  the  chair  of  the  same  branches  in  the  Powers  College. 
Benjamin  H.  Diehl,  class  1881,  died  October  15,  aged  32  years.  He  had  also 
studied  medicine,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  conducted  a  drug  store,  in  con- 
nection with  the  practice  of  medicine,  near  Broad  and  Cumberland  Streets,  in 
this  city. 
Amos  Hansell,  class  1858,  died  at  the  age  of  53  years  ;  for  a  number  of  years 
he  had  been  in  business  at  Twentieth  and  Market  Streets. 
Franklin  Chapman  Hill,  class  1848,  died  of  heart  failure,  after  a  pro- 
tracted illness,  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  on  the  5th  of  November,  1890,  in  the  63d 
year  of  his  age.  He  was  born  in  the  city  of  New  York  ;  his  family  removing 
to  this  city  in  1835,  he  was  educated  in  the  school  of  the  late  Thos.  D.  James  ; 
learned  the  drug  business  in  the  store  of  Professor  Edward  Parrish,  and  after- 
ward opened  a  store  at  N.  E.  cor.  of  Eleventh  and  Mt.  Vernon  Streets,  Phila- 
delphia. His  uncle,  who  was  President  of  Antioch  College,  Ohio,  induced  him 
to  continue  his  studies  there,  and  afterward  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  where  his 
fondness  for  scientific  problems  drew  him  into  civil  engineering,  with  which 
he  employed  himself  some  time,  both  in  private  life  and  in  the  U.  S.  army 
during  the  late  war.  He  became  associated  with  Mr.  Ward,  of  Rochester, 
who  was  much  engaged  in  palaeontologic  work,  and  this  started  a  new  field  of 
industry  in  which  he  greatly  excelled  ;  so  well  versed  in  entomology  was  he 
that  the  trustees  of  Princeton  College  purchased  a  collection  of  drawings  made 
by  him  for  their  museum.  He  left  a  wife,  4  sons  and  4  daughters,  some  of 
them  engaged  in  scientific  pursuits.  The  Trustees  of  Princeton  College  voted 
his  salary  to  be  paid  up  to  January  1,  1891,  in  recognition  of  the  value  of  his 
services  to  the  museum  of  the  College  as  curator.  T.  S.  W. 
John  J.  Lantz,  class  1887,  died  in  this  city,  October  7,  aged  25  years.  He 
was  in  business  on  Fairmount  Avenue. 
Harold  D.  Owens,  class  1889,  died  at  the  age  of  23  years,  October  20,  from 
injuries  received  October  15,  at  the  fire,  caused  by  an  explosion  of  illuminating 
gas,  at  the  factory  of  H.  K.  Mulford  &  Co.,  2132  Market  Street,  this'city. 
VARIETIES. 
Quinine  pills  are  recommended  by  E.  Sohet  {Bull.  Soc.  Roy.  de  Phar.)  to  be 
made  with  lactic  acid,  of  which  three  drops  are  stated  to  be  sufficient  to  form  a 
plastic  mass  with  one  gram  of  quinine  sulphate.  A  somewhat  larger  quantity 
of  the  acid  will  be  required  in  case  other  solid  medicaments  are  to  be  incor- 
porated. Since  lactic  acid  is  a  normal  constituent  of  the  organism,  its  use  for 
this  purpose,  in  such  a  minute  quantity,  appears  to  be  less  objectionable  than 
that  of  other  acids.  ' 
Pyokianin  or  methyl-violet,  according  to  Liebreich  (Therap.  Monatshejte, 
July),  is  a  mixture  of  aniline  products  of  uncertain  composition,  which  explains 
