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Obituary. 
f Am.  Jour.  Pharrn. 
1      March,  1903. 
A  Manual  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacology.  Com- 
prising all  organic  and  inorganic  drugs  which  are  or  have  been  offi- 
cial in  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  together  with  important 
allied  species  and  useful  synthetics,  especially  designed  for  students 
of  pharmacy  and  medicine,  as  well  as  for  druggists,  pharmacists  and 
physicians.  By  David  M.  R.  Culbreth.  Third  edition,  enlarged 
and  thoroughly  revised,  with  473  illustrations.  Philadelphia  and 
New  York :  Lea  Brothers  &  Co. 
This  book  has  been  favorably  reviewed  on  two  former  occasions 
in  this  Journal  and  needs  no  extended  review  now.  The  third  edi- 
tion has  been  revised  and  some  new  matter  has  been  added.  Sev- 
eral new  illustrations  have  been  made,  as  of  cola,  cereus,  scopola, 
saw-palmetto,  etc.,  thus  bringing  the  work  up  to  the  new  additions 
of  the  1900  U.S.P.  The  book  has  been  carefully  edited,  and  is  like 
a  condensed  dispensatory  containing  information  of  all  kinds  on  the 
vegetable,  animal  and  chemical  drugs  considered.  It  is  one  of  the 
few  books  that  treats  of  the  origin  of  generic  and  specific  names, 
information  concerning  which  students  and  others  are  not  infre- 
quently desirous  of  ascertaining.  The  work  is  bound  in  garnet  and 
as  a  whole  is  pleasing  in  appearance. 
OBITUARY. 
The  death  of  Mr.  Jacob  L.  Smith,  on  the  twenty-eighth  day  of  last 
December,  removed  the  oldest  member  of  the  College.  He  was  born 
in  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1822  and  educated  at  the  school  of 
Charles  Keyser,  the  Friends'  school  now  known  as  the  Penn  Charter 
School.  He  learned  the  drug  business  with  Messrs.  Samuel  & 
William  P.  Troth,  and  was  graduated  by  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  in  1843.  He  immediately  connected  himself  with  the 
College,  and  in  the  following  year  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  serving  until  the  year  1861.  In  the  year  1849 
he  entered  the  employment  of  Messrs.  Rosengarten  &  Denis  and 
continued  with  the  house,  now  Rosengarten  &  Sons,  Inc.,  until  his 
death,  a  period  of  fifty-three  years  and  eight  months.  He  was  the 
"  beloved  friend  of  three  generations  of  the  Rosengarten  family." 
Mr.  Smith  was  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  Church  and  was  a  vestry- 
man for  over  fifty  years,  and  actively  engaged  in  the  Sabbath 
schools  of  this  Church  during  this  long  term.     T.  S.  Wiegand. 
