Am.  Joui*.  Pharm. 
July,  1911. 
Obituary. 
355 
may  be  obtained  at  a  merely  nominal  charge  by  addressing  the 
Secretary,  Prof.  W.  A.  Puckner,  535  Dearborn  Avenue,  Chicago,  111. 
Digest  of  Comments  on  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States 
of  America  and  the  National  Formulary  for  the  Calendar  Year 
ending  December  31,  1908.  By  Murray  Gait  Hotter  and  Martin  1. 
Wilbert.    Washington:    Government  Printing  Office.    191 1. 
Only  the  student  who  has  experienced  the  grind  of  looking  up 
the  literature  in  connection  with  his  investigations  can  appreciate  to 
the  fullest  extent  the  value  of  the  Digest  of  Comments."  Up  to 
within  recent  years,  since  the  appearance  of  the  first  number  of 
Digest  of  Comments/'  the  reviewer  spent  much  time  noting  articles 
and  conserving  clippings  of  subjects  he  wished  to  keep  informed 
concerning.  This  is  all  unnecessary  now  with  articles  pertaining  to 
the  Pharmacopoeia  and  National  Formulary.  It  is  very  simple  to 
take  down  the  volumes  of  the  "  Digest  of  Comments  "  and  quickly 
turn  to  the  subject  of  the  article  one  is  working  upon.  There  will 
be  found,  with  abstract,  references  to  all  of  the  published  papers  on 
the  subject  during  any  one  year.  Not  only  this,  but  the  foreign 
Pharmacopoeias  are  reviewed  and  valuable  tables  are  given  showing 
the  relationship  of  the  preparations  in  the  dif¥erent  pharmacopoeias. 
OBITUARY. 
Caleb  R.  Keeney. 
In  the  death  of  Caleb  R.  Keeney,  the  retail  drug  trade  has  lost 
one  of  the  best  types  of  the  profession.  Mr.  Keeney  was  born  in  Car- 
lise,  educated  there,  and  apprenticed  to  the  ist  Henry  Blair,  who  had 
his  store  where  the  3d  Henry  C.  Blair  is  now  at  Eighth  and  Walnut 
Streets,  Philadelphia. 
Mr.  Keeney  at  the  termination  of  his  apprenticeship  commenced 
business  for  himself  at  Sixteenth  and  Arch  Streets,  and  continued 
there  until  the  day  of  his  death ;  his  son  having  been  associated  with 
him  for  thirty-five  years  and  succeeds  to  the  business. 
There  are  not  many  drug  pharniacists  in  Philadelphia  to-day 
who  have  remained  so  close  to  the  calling.  He  was  what  Prof. 
Parrish  said  a  druggist  was  in  liis  neighborhood :  An  "  Oracle  " 
as  it  were.    Tlie  T*rofcssor  in  speaking  of  the  druggist  said  that  lie 
