224  Reviews,  etc. — Obituary.  { 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Medicinal  Plants  ;  being  descriptions,  with  original  figures,  of  the  principal  plants 
employed  in  med  cine,  and  an  account  of  their  properties  and  uses  By  Robert 
Bentley,  F.L.S.,  and  Henry  Trimen,  M.  B.,  F.L.S.  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  & 
Blackiston.    Price,  per  part,  $2.co. 
Parts  35  and  36,  now  before  us,  contain  the  handsome  plates  and  the  usual  full 
descriptions  of  the  following  medicinal  plants  :  Aspidium  filix-mas,  Sivartz;  Dichop- 
sis  (Isonandra)  gutta,  Bentl.;  Erigeron  canadense,  Lin.  ;  Foeniculum  capillaceum, 
Gilib  ;  Hjbiscus  exculontus,  Lin.;  Lactuca  sativa,  .Lw.  ;  Menyanthes  trifoliata,  Lin.  „- 
Metroxylon  sagu,  Rottb. ;  Morus  nigra,  Lin.;  Rheum  rhaponticum,  Lin.;  Rosa  cen- 
tifolia,  Lin. ;  Salvia  officinalis,  Lin. ;  Triticum  sativum,  Lin.,  and  Vitis  vinifera,  Lin 
The  National  Dispensatory.  '  By  Professors  Alfred  Stille  and  J.  M.  Maisch.  Phil- 
adelphia :  Henry  C.  Lea,  1879       8vo,  pp.  1628     Price,  bound  in  muslin,  $6.75  j, 
in  leather,  S7.50     Or  bound  in  two  parts,  in  muslin,  $7.50  5  in  leather,  $8.50. 
This  work  was  issued   March  1st,  but  we  regret,  in  consequence  of  an  oversight, 
the  gentleman  who  has  undertaken  to  review  it  for  the  Journal  failed  to  receive  it 
in  time  for  preparing  a  critical  review  for  the  present  number  ;  it  has  been  promised 
for  the  May  number. 
OBITUARY. 
F.  L.  M.  Dorvault  died  in  Paris  February  16th,  in  the  65th  year  of  his  age- 
After  having  passed  the  examination  at  theecole  superieure  de  Pharmacie,  he  estab- 
lished himself  in  Paris,  and  in  1852  founded  the  Pharmacie  Centrale,  of  which  he 
was  the  Director  until  the  time  of  his  death.  He  had  been  a  contributor  to  several 
medical  and  pharmaceutical  journals,  and  in  i860  commenced  the  publication  of  a 
monthly  journal,  "TUnion  Pharmaceutique."  His  most  important  work  is  "TOffl- 
cine,"  of  which  eight  or  nine  editions  have  been  published.  The  deceased  was 
a  corresponding  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  the  recipient 
or"  similar  marks  of  esteem  from  numerous  other  scientific  societies. 
Professor  Dr.  Franz  Sonnenschein  died  in  Berlin  February  26th,  after  severe 
illness,  in  his  60th  year.  He  was  born  in  Cologne,  became  a  pharmacist  and  located 
in  Berlin  as  instructor  in  chemistry.  About  eight  years  ago  he  was  elected  to  a 
professorship.  He  was  an  authority  in  forensic  chemistry  and  the  author  of  several 
works  on  chemistry,  the  most  important  of  which  is  one  on  the  detection  of  poisons. 
Professor  George  B.  Wood,  M.D.,  died  in  Philadelphia  March  30th  at  the 
age  of  82  years.  He  was  connected  as  professor  with  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  from  1822  to  1 835,  occupying  first  the  chair  of  chemistry,  and  after- 
wards that  of  Materia  Medica.  From  1835  to  i860  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Faculty  of  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  laboring  for 
fifteen  years  as  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy,  and  for  ten  years  in  the 
chair  of  Practice  of  Medicine.  Dr.  Wood  was  widely  known  as  an  author,  chiefly 
of  medical  works  j  but  the  one  through  which  he  was  best  known  among  pharm- 
acists is  the  United  States  Dispensatory,  which  was  written  in  conjunction  with  Dr. 
Franklin  Bache,  and  of  which  the  first  edition  appeared  in  1833.  Through  this 
work  he  has  exerted  a  marked  influence  upon  the  elevation  of  pharmacy  in  the 
United  States,  in  the  history  of  which  his  name  will  always  occupy  one  of  the  most 
prominent  places. 
