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Obituary. 
5  Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
\     May  1, 1871. 
Report  of  a  Special  Committee  of  the  Medical  Society  of  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia, upon  the  Claims  of  the  Homoeopaths  and  other  Irregular  Practitioners  for 
Professional  Recognition  in  the  Medical  Service  of  the  U.  S.  Government,  and 
the  Charges  brought  by  the  Homoeopaths  against  the  U.  S.  Commissioner  of 
Army  and  Navy  Pensions.  Published  by  resolution  of  the  Medical  Society. 
Washington,  1871. 
The  reception  of  this  pamphlet  is  acknowledged. 
27*6  Medical  Herald  and  Journcd  of  Pharmacy.  J.  W.  Brock,  M.  P.,  and 
Robert  J.  Brown,  pharmacist,  editors,  Leavenworth,  Kansas.  8vo.  $3 
per  annum. 
Our  friends  in  the  West  are  stirring.  We  rejoice  that  in  a  locality  where 
but  a  few  short  years  ago  a  "buffalo  hunt  and  a  free  fight  with  the  Indians" 
were  counted  among  the  attractions,  pharmacy  has  established  itself  on  so  firm 
a  basis  as  to  warrant  the  publication  of  a  journal  one-half  of  which  is  to  be 
devoted  to  its  interests,  while  the  other  half  remains  in  the  hands  of  her  older 
sister,  "  Medicine."  The  first  number  under  the  new  arrangement  is  to  be 
published  simultaneously  with  this  issue  ;  and,  while  we  expect  to  see  it  succeed 
under  the  energetic  management  of  our  friend  Brown,  we  trust  that  it  will  be- 
come the  means  of  professional  intercourse  with  a  section  of  our  vast  country 
from  which  heretofore  we  have  but  rarely  heard. 
Chemistry  :  General,  Medical  and  Pharmac enticed,  including  the  Chemistry  of 
the  U.  S.  Pharmacopceia .    A  manual  on  the  general  Principles  of  the  Sci- 
ence, and  their  application  to  Aledicine  and  Pharmacy.    By  John  Attfield, 
Ph.  i).,  F.  0.  S.  ;  Professor  of  Practical  Chemistry  to  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  Great  Britain.    From  the  second  and  enlarged  English  edition. 
Revised  by  the  author.    Philadelphia:  Henry  C.  Lea.  187L 
The  first  English  edition  of  this  work  was  noticed  in  this  journal  in  1868,  on 
pages  93  and  190.    The  present  volume  was  received  too  late  for  careful  exam- 
ination ;  we  shall  therefore  defer  a  more  extended  report  to  the  next  number, 
and  now  merely  state  that  we  consider  it  a  very  practical  guide  for  the  labora- 
tory as  well  as  the  shop,  and  that  pharmacists  and  physicians  will  find  it  very 
instructive  in  the  details  of  chemical  investigations,  analytical  and  practical, 
which  they  may  undertake. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr.  J.  B.  Henkel,  Professor  of  Pharmacy  at  the  University  of  Tiibingen, 
died  March  2d.  1871,  in  the  42d  year  of  his  age.  Having  been  educated  a 
pharmacist,  he  subsequently  devoled  his  energies  to  scientific  pursuits  in  the 
iaterest  of  the  profession  of  his  choice.  He  published  in  German  several 
works  on  pharmaceutical  subjects,  among  which  we  mention  :  The  Genuineness 
and  Quality  of  Crude  Vegetable  Medicinal  Products,  Handbook  of  Pharma- 
cognosy, Dictionary  of  Drugs,  and,  in  conjunction  with  Dr.  G.  Jager  and  Dr. 
W.  Stadel,  The  Elements  of  Pharmacy,  of  which  work  the  deceased  wrote  the 
botanical  and  pharmacognostical  part.  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
loses  in  him  one  of  its  corresponding  members. 
Jean  Joseph  Edouard  HAUCHAjirs,  Professor  of  Pharmacology  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Brussels,  died  in  March  last.  He  was  one  of  the  founders,  and  for 
a  number  of  years  one  of  the  officers,  of  the  Societe  de  Pharmacia  of  that  city. 
