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Obituary. — Prof.  Dr.  G.  F.  Walz  was  born  in  1817,  in  Waldmikelbach, 
Hesse  Darmstadt,  where  his  father  held  the  office  of  revenue  collector. 
When  fourteen  years  of  age,  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  pharmaceutist  in 
Furth,  and  removed  afterwards  to  Heidelberg,  where  he  completed  his 
studies.  Subsequently  he  settled  as  apothecary  at  Speyer,  Rhine-Pfalz, 
where  he  soon  commenced  his  career  of  usefulness.  Here  he  became  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  polytechnical  school,  and  was  active  for  several 
years  as  director  of  the  pharmaceutical  and  chemical  branches,  in  con- 
nection with  which  he  opened  his  well-known  Pharmaceutic-Chemical  In- 
stitute, wherein  a  number  of  the  young  German  pharmaceutists  received 
their  scientific  education. 
Walz  knew  the  value  of  scientific  literature,  and  regarded  it  as  a  duty 
incumbent  upon  every  one  to  contribute  his  mite  towards  the  progress  of 
science.  Many  pharmaceutical  journals  of  that  time  contain  scientific  re- 
searches from  his  pen,  and  his  sphere  of  usefulness  in  this  department  be- 
came  still  greater  after  he  had  commenced  the  Neues  Jahrbuch  der  Phar- 
macie,  which  afterwards  was  selected  as  the  organ  of  the  southern  branch 
of  the  German  Apothecaries  Association,  of  which  society  Walz  was  the 
efficient  President. 
In  1856,  he  removed  to  Heidelberg  as  private  instructor  (Privatdocent) 
in  Chemistry,  Botany,  and  Pharmacology,  and  subsequently  he  was  se- 
lected for  the  Chair  of  Chemistry  at  this  celebrated  university,  which  he 
occupied  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His  continued  mental  labors  probably 
induced  the  disease  which  so  soon  terminated  his  useful  career.  In 
March  of  the  present  year,  he  was  seized  with  a  brain  fever,  from  which 
he  had  apparently  recovered,  when  on  a  journey  he  was  taken  with  a  re- 
lapse, and  died  suddenly  at  Zwingenberg,  at  the  house  of  a  friend.  He 
was  but  in  the  45th  year  of  his  age,  too  young  for  science  which  has  lost 
an  ardent  and  conscientious  laborer,  too  young  for  his  friends,  who  mourn 
the  loss  of  an  excellent  father,  an  efficient  teacher,  and  urbane  companion. 
In  his  chemical  researches,  the  deceased  studied  with  predilection  the 
constituents  of  those  substances  which  are  or  have  been  employed  in  medi- 
cine. A  number  of  his  essays  have  been  transferred  to  the  pages  of  this 
Journal ;  for  instance,  his  analysis  of  Bryonia  alba,  Convallaria  majalis, 
Gratiola  officinalis,  Colocynth,  Colchicum,  Arnica,  &c.  He  is  a  bright  ex- 
ample of  continued  devotion  to  Pharmacy,  for  the  elevation  of  which  he 
has  worked  earnestly  and  successfully  as  long  as  he  was  physically  able 
to  do  so.  J.  M.  M. 
Died,  on  the  26th  of  May,  1862,  at  Morristown,  N,  J.,  Dr.  Lewis  Con- 
dict,  in  the  ninetieth  year  of  his  age.  Dr.  Condict  is  known  to  many 
apothecaries  as  the  president  of  the  second  Pharmacopoeial  Convention  that 
met  in  Washington,  Jan.  1830.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  of  1794,  with  Dr.  John  Redman  Coxe  of  this  city,  the  oldest 
living  graduate  of  that  school. 
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