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Obituary. 
5  Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
\     JulY  1, 1871. 
Report  of  the  General  Committee  of  the  Cincinnati  Industrial  Exposition, 
held  in  Cincinnati,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Ohio  Mechanics'  Institute, 
Board  of  Trade  and  Chamber  of  Commerce,  from  Sept.  21st  to  Oct.  22d, 
1870.    8vo,  400  pages. 
The  reception  of  this  report  is  acknowledged,  together  with  the  announce- 
ment of  the  exhibition,  to  be  held  in  the  same  city  for  one  month,  commencing 
Sept.  6th  next.  Class  XVI  of  the  last  exhibition  comprised  chemicals,  paints, 
oils,  soaps  and  candles,  also  pharmaceutical  preparations.  The  judges  were 
Dr.  J.  S.  Unzicker,  Prof.  E.  S.  Wayne  and  Chas.  C.  Reakirt. 
The  Eye  in  Health  and  Disease  :  being  a  series  of  articles  on  the  anatomy  and 
physiology  of  the  human  eye,  and  its  surgical  and  medical  treatment.  By 
B.  Jay  Jeffreys,  A.M.,  M.D.,  &c.  Boston  :  Alexander  Moore,  Lee  &  Shep- 
ard  ;  New  York  :  Lee,  Shepard  &  Dillingham.  1871.  8vo,  120  pages,  with 
30  illustrations.    Bound  in  cloth.    Price,  $1.50. 
The  book  consists  of  a  number  of  articles  contributed  at  lirst  to  a  journal, 
and  intended  for  the  instruction  of  the  laity  in  reference  to  the  care  of  the  eye, 
a  purpose  which  it  is  well  calculated  to  accomplish.  The  "author,  who  acts  as 
ophthalmic  surgeon  to  several  hospitals,  and  is  lecturer  on  the  eye  at  Harvard 
University,  is  perfectly  familiar  with  this  subject,  and  we  believe  that  even  the 
professional  surgeon  will  find  in  it  many  new  and  interesting  facts. 
The  Modern  Operation  for  Cataract.  A  lecture  delivered  at  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  April  5th,  1871,  with  an  analysis  of  sixty-one  operations. 
By  Basket  1  .'erby,  M.D.,  University  Lecturer  on  Ophthalmology  and  Surgeon 
to  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary.  Boston,  1871. 
8vo,  24  pp. 
We  have  been  much  pleased  with  the  perusal  of  this  lecture,  which  gives  a 
lucid  account  of  the  history  and  practice  of  Professor  von  Graefe's  method  of 
operation  for  cataract,  which  was  named  by  that  celebrated  surgeon,  at  first, 
the  modified,"  but  afterwards  the  "  peripheric  linear  extraction."  An  analy- 
sis of  61  (including  his  earliest)  operations  performed  by  the  author  is  ap- 
pended. Of  this  number  three  only  proved  to  be  failures,  two  of  these  having 
occurred  in  the  first  period  of  his  practice. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr.  George  A.  C.  STaoELER  was  born  at  Hanover,  Germany,  March  25th 
1821.  He  served  an  apprentice-  and  clerkship  to  the  apothecary  business,  and 
subsequently  studied  botany,  and  chemistry  at  Goettiugen.  As  the  assistant 
of  Prof.  Wohler,  he  commenced,  in  1847,  his  researches  on  the  production  of 
chloral  from  starch,  which  of  latter  years  attracted  much  attention.  (See  Am. 
Journ.  Ph.  1870,  p.  177.)  For  several  years  he  devoted  much  time  to  researches 
in  physiological  chemistry.  In  1853  he  was  selected  to  fill  the  chair  of  general 
chemistry  at  the  University  of  Zurich,  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  Loewig; 
and,  in  1855,  when  the  Swiss  "  Polytechnicura"  was  founded,  he  was  also  elected 
Professor  of  Analytical  Chemistry  at  this  institution,  where  he  labored  with 
great  success  until,  in  the  fall  of  1870,  he  found  it  necessary  to  resign  his  posi- 
tion in  consequence  of  disease  of  the  heart,  which  had  gradually  developed 
■'tself  for  about  seven  years.  He  died  at  the  residence  of  his  parents,  both  sur- 
viving, at  Hanover,  on  the  11th  of  January  last,  having  nearly  complete  his 
fiftieth  year. 
