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Obituary. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1       July,  1886. 
Sixty-ninth  Annual  Report  on  the  State  of  the  Asylum  for  the  Relief  of  Persons  De- 
prived of  the  Use  of  their  Reason.    Philadelphia.  8vo,  pp.  32. 
Excerpta  from  the  biennial  report  of  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  State  of  Louisiana  to 
the  General  Assembly,  1884-85.  Jos.  Holt,  M.D.,  President.  New  Orleans. 
1886.    8vo,  pp.  44. 
Comparative  size  of  metric  and  old  units  with  reference  to  convenience.  By  Fred. 
Brooks.— Report  of  the  Committee  on  Weights  and  Measures.  1886.  8vo, 
pp.  28. 
These  papers  were  read  at  a  meeting  of  the  Boston  Society  of  Civil  Engineers, 
arid  are  republished  from  the  Journal  of  the  Association  of  Engineering  So- 
cieties, May,  1886. 
International  Electrical  Exhibition  of  the  Franklin  Institute,  1884.    Reports  of  Ex- 
aminers.   Philadelphia.  1886. 
Section  XXIII. — Electro-medical  Apparatus.    Pp.  23. 
Section  XXVI. — Applications  of  electricity  to  artistic  effects  and  art  pro- 
ductions— with  which  is  incorporated  Section  XXV.— Applications  of  electricity 
to  musical  apparatus. 
OBITUARY. 
Prof.  Appolinaire  Bouchardat  died  in  Paris,  France,  April  7th,  at  the  age  of 
80  years.  He  was  born  in  the  Department  of  Yonne,  in  1806,  embraced  the 
pharmaceutical  profession,  and  was  for  over  twenty  years  pharmacist-in-chief > 
first  at  the  Hospital  St.  Antoine,  and  subsequent^  at  the  Hotel-Dieu.  In  1852 
he  was  called  to  the  Chair  of  Physics  and  Chemistry  in  the  Ecole  superieure 
de  Pharmacie,  and  for  25  years  was  editor  of  the  Repertoire  de  Pharmacie.  He 
was  the  author  of  a  "Formulaire  Magistral,"  which  passed  through  many 
editions;  and  from  1841  to  1885,  published  the  Annuaire  de  TMrapeutique, 
Matiere  Medicate,  Pharmacie  et  Toxicologie.  Of  his  numerous  investigations, 
quite  a  number  have  been  republished,  entire  or  in  abstract,  in  this  Journal, 
during  the  years  1843  to  1873. 
Notice  of  the  decease  of  the  following  graduates  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  has  been  received : 
D.  Augustus  J"nes,  class  1869,  died  at  Mount  Holly,  N.  J.,  May  1st,  of  con- 
sumption, aged  38  years. 
Joseph  J.  Karch,  class  1868,  died  at  Lebanon,  Pa.,  May  21st,  of  abscess  of  the 
liver,  aged  40  years.  He  had  been  in  business  in  his  native  town  since  1874, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  member  of  the  Lebanon  School  Board  and 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Stephen  F.  Penrose,  class  1869,  died  at  Quakertown,  Pa.,  May  6th,  of  con- 
sumption, in  the  40th  year  of  his  age.  Since  1871  he  was  a  member  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Jarvis  R.  Wallen,  class  1869,  died  in  Philadelphia,  May  24th,  aged  38  years, 
of  obstruction  of  bowels.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Colburn  &  Co., 
spice  manufacturers,  having  relinquished  the  drug  business  some  years  ago. 
