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Obituaries. 
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which  is  believed  to  have  been  caused  by  an  embolism  following  a 
surgical  operation.  He  leaves  a  wife  and  two  children — both  quite 
young.  W.  M.  Searby. 
ERNST  BILTZ. 
Ernst  Biltz,  a  corresponding  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy,  died  at  Erfurt,  Germany,  on  January  10,  1903,  in  his 
eighty- first  year. 
From  the  laudatory  expressions  of  one  who.knew  him,  and  had 
come  directly  under  his  influence,  it  would  appear  that  Ernst  Biltz 
was  one  of  those  singularly  gifted  characters  that  have  ideas  and 
ideals  far  above  the  wants  and  needs  of  their  immediate  surround- 
ings. Biltz  was  truly  one  of  the  pioneers  of  modern  scientific  phar- 
macy ;  his  rare  gitts  as  a  fluent  speaker,  a  skilled  experimenter  and 
a  facile  writer,  combined  with  his  originality  of  thought  and  genial 
disposition,  made  him  an  actual  incorporation  ot  the  ideal  of  the 
German  apotheker.  His  abilities  and  efforts  have  been  generally 
recognized,  both  at  home  as  well  as  abroad.  In  his  native  city  he 
was  repeatedly  honored,  active  as  well  as  honorary  offices  having 
been  given  him  from  time  to  time. 
On  the  occasion  of  his  celebrating  his  fiftieth  anniversary  as  an 
apothecary,  the  University  of  Marburg  bestowed  on  him  the  honorary 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy. 
Ernst  Biltz  was  a  member  of  a  number  of  scientific  societies, 
among  others  of  the  Royal  Academy  at  Erfurt,  in  which  he  had 
the  rare  honor  of  being  able  to  celebrate  his  fiftieth  anniversary  as 
a  member  in  1 900.  Among  other  scientific  bodies  he  was  elected 
an  honorary  member  of  the  Thliringer  Botanical  Society,  the 
German  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  the  German  Society  of 
Apothecaries. 
Ernst  Biltz  was  born  in  Erfurt,  Germany,  on  July  26,  1822.  After 
attending  the  local  schools  he  went  to  Berlin  to  attend  the  lectures 
at  the  University.  In  1847  he  became  the  proprietor  of  the  Griine 
Apotheke  in  Erfurt,  succeeding  his  father,  who  had  received  the 
concession  in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century. 
The  life  of  Ernst  Biltz  was  not  alone  a  long  one,  it  was  also  a  par- 
ticularly active  one  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  In  addition  to 
taking  an  active  interest  in  the  development  of  pharmacy  along 
scientific  lines,  he  was  also  a  liberal  contributor  to  various  scientific 
societies  on  matters  pertaining  to  other  branches  of  natural  science, 
particularly  botany. 
