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Obituary. 
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(.        May.  1888. 
cost,  and  palatableness  should  be  combined  considerations.  The  object  of  this 
work  is  for  the  information  of  the  housewife,  to  whose  requirements  the 
average  cook-book  is  ill  adapted,  as  well  as  to  bring  to  her  attention  healthfal 
and  economic  methods  and  receipts. 
All  essays  written  for  the  above  prizes  must  be  in  the  hands  of  the  Secretary? 
Dr.  Irving  A.  Watson,  Concord,  N.  H.,  on  or  before  Sept.  15,  1888.  Each  essay 
must  bear  a  motto,  and  have  accompanying  it  a  securely  sealed  envelope  con- 
taining the  author's  name  and  address,  with  the  same  motto  upon  the  outside 
of  the  envelope. 
After  the  prize  essays  have  been  determined  upon,  the  envelopes  bearing  the 
mottos  corresponding  to  the  prize  essays  will  be  opened,  and  the  awards  made 
to  the  persons  whose  names  are  found  within  them.  The  remaining  envelopes, 
unless  the  corresponding  essays  are  reclaimed  by  authors  or  their  representa- 
tives within  thirty  dsLjs  after  publication  of  the  awards,  will  be  destroyed, 
unopened,  by  the  Secretary. 
It  is  intended  that  the  above  essays  shall  be  essentially  American  in  their 
character  and  application,  and  this  will  be  considered  by  the  judges  as  an 
especial  merit. 
Competition  is  open  to  authors  of  any  nationality,  but  all  the  papers  must 
be  in  the  English  language. 
OBITUAEY. 
Jules  Emile  Planchon  died  early  in  April,  at  Montpellier,  where  for  many 
years  he  held  the  chair  of  botany  and  pharmacognosy  (natural  history  of 
medicaments)  in  the  medical  school  and  in  the  ecole  de  pharmacy  of  that 
city ;  he  was  also  director  of  the  botanical  garden  connected  with  these  in- 
stitutions. 
Daniel  C.  Robbins  died  suddenly  of  heart  disease,  in  BrookhTD,  April  loth, 
aged  73  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  McKesson  &  Robbins,  in 
New  York,  and  for  many  years  prepared  annually,  for  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce for  that  State,  the  Review  of  the  Drug  Trade  of  New  York,  the  last 
one  published  being  for  the  year  1886. 
Joseph  T.  Brown  died  in  Boston,  April  23rd,  aged  78  years.  He  was  the 
last  survivor  of  four  brothers,  all  apothecaries,  who  carried  on  business  on 
Washington  street,  Boston,  for  a  longer  or  shorter  period  during  the  last 
sixty  years. 
William  N.  K.  Boileau,  Ph.  G.,  Class  1876,  died  in  Philadelphia,  March  4th. 
He  was  born  at  Eddington.  Bucks  county,  Pemisylvania,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death  was  a  student  at  the  Medico-chirurgical  College  expecting  to  gi'adu- 
ate  this  spring. 
John  Wm.  Hugo  Oppermann,  Ph.  G.,  Class  1874,  died  of  bloodpoisoiiing, 
April  19th,  aged  37  years ;  for  a  number  of  jeaTS  he  had  been  in  business  at 
8th  and  Oxford  streets. 
Kinsey  Durell,  a  senior  student  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
died  at  his  father's  residence  in  Chester,  March  2. 
