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Obituary. 
(  Am  Joub.  Pharm 
1    Feb.  1, 1873. 
members.  The  annual  report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  did  not  reach  the 
Secretary,  and  is  missing  in  this  annual  publication  for  the  first  time  since  1857. 
The  papers  read  at  the  last  meeting  were  27  in  number,  quite  a  falling  off  from 
the  number  read  at  the  St.  Louis  meeting ;  many  of  them,  however,  are  of 
considerable  interest.  Not  less  than  23  queries  have  been  continued  to  mem- 
bers, at  their  request,  to  be  reported  on  at  the  meeting  in  Bichmond,  in  Sep- 
tember next,  and  47  new  queries  have  been  propounded,  of  which  number  39 
were  accepted  for  report  by  members,  and  8  left  for  general  acceptance,  so 
that  at  the  next  meeting  many  interesting  subjects  will  be  brought  forward  if 
the  members  will  in  due  season  institute  the  necessary  inquiries  and  experi- 
ments. In  our  next  number  we  intend  to  publish,  entire  or  in  abstract,  some 
of  the  papers,  several  of  which  are  illustrated  by  woodcuts.  The  report  on  the 
drug  market  contains  much  information,  mostly  statistical,  and  the  report  on 
legislation,  a  collection  of  the  pharmaceutical  laws  enacted  last  year.  In  an 
appendix,  information  is  given  on  the  signal  service  of  the  United  States, 
embellished  by  three  handsome  weather  maps  and  the  meteorological  record 
with  synopsis,  probabilities  and  facts  for  one  day,  as  issued  by  the  Chief  Signal 
Officer,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
OBITUARY. 
Christian  Carl  Arthur  Casselmann,  Ph.  D.,  M.  Phar.,  and  Editor  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Journal  for  Russia,  died  ia  St.  Petersburg,  November  16th, 
1872,  aged  44  years.  The  deceased  has  been  a  hard  and  successful  worker 
towards  raising  the  status  of  pharmacy  in  his  adopted  country,  Russia,  and  his 
learning  and  amiable  character  have  gained  him  the  esteem  and  love  of  a  large 
circle  of  friends  in  all  countries  where  scientific  pharmacy  is  valued.  In  him, 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  loses  one  of  its  honorary  members, 
and  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  one  of  its  corresponding  members. 
The  deceased,  we  believe,  had  also  been  elected  an  honorary  member  of  several 
other  American  societies. 
Adolphe  Georges  Guillemette,  a  distinguished  pharmacist  of  Paris,  died 
there,  after  an  illness  of  three  weeks,  at  the  age  of  64  years,  and  was  buried 
October  28th,  when,  in  the  name  of  the  Paris  Pharmaceutical  Society,  Mr. 
Gobley  pronounced  an  elocution,  from  which  we  take  the  following  notes  : 
"  The  deceased  was  born  in  1808,  at  Magny,  near  Caen,  studied  pharmacy  at 
Bretteville,  with  his  uncle,  and  subsequently  came  to  Paris,  obtaining  an  en- 
gagement with  M.  Boutron-Charlard,  whom  he  succeeded  in  business  in  1835, 
which  he  carried  on  with  assiduity  and  success  for  35  years.  In  connection 
with  M.  Boutron  he  established  the  identity  with  mannite  of  grenadin,  a  crys- 
talline principle  obtained  from  pomegranate  bark ;  the  crystalline  odorous 
principle  of  melilot  was  proven  by  him  to  be  identical  with  coumarin  of  Tonka 
beans." 
Dr.  L.  Carius,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  University  of  Marburg,  died 
in  December  last.  He  enjoyed  a  well  deserved  reputation  as  an  analist,  but 
devoted  his  researches  not  exclusively  to  analysis,  extending  them  also  to  many 
mostly  organic,  compounds,  as  the  derivatives  of  benzole,  propyl,  glycerin,  &c. 
