384  Obituary.  {^•j'Sj^iS?^ 
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Fifth  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Control  of  the  State  Agricultural  Experi- 
mental Station,  at  Amherst,  Mass.  Boston,  1888;  8vo.,  pp.  267. 
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OBITUAEY. 
i?acAe/ i. -Boc?Zpi/,  M.  D.,  professor  of  chemistry  and  dean  of  the  Wom- 
an's Medical  College,  died  in  Philadelphia  June  loth,  at  the  age  of  56  years. 
The  deceased  was  identified  with  the  above  College  for  23  years,  and  was 
one  of  its  most  valued  teachers.  Botany  and  chemistry  were  her  favorite- 
sciences.  Fourteen  years  ago  she  suggested  the  propriety  of  celebrating 
the  one  hundreth  anniversary  of  the  discovery  of  oxygen  by  Priestley ;  the 
suggestion  was  carried  out,  and  at  the  "Centennial  of  Chemistry-  "  which 
took  place  at  Northumberland,  Pennsylvania,  the  last  home  and  resting- 
place  of  Priestley,  she  was  elected  vice  president,  though  absent  on  a  botan- 
ical excursion  to  Colorado.    She  was  a  native  of  Cincinnati,  0. 
Theodor  Ronnefeld,  for  many  j^ears  in  business  in  Detroit,  died  in  that 
city  after  a  lingering  illness,  June  9th,  aged  56  years.  He  was  an  excellent 
pharmacist,  an  upright  man,  an  agreeable  companion,  and  a  warm  hearted 
friend, 
Lorren  S.  Vincent,  Ph.  G.,  class  1886,  died  at  Flint,  Michigan,  May  27th. 
He  was  born  in  Genesee  Co.,  N.  Y.,  January  11th,  1860,  and  at  the  age  of 
eight  years  came  with  his  parents  to  Flint,  where  after  graduating  from  the 
high  school,  he  learned  the  drug  business  and  subsequently  attended  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  He  commenced  business  in  Dayton, 
0.,  but  failing  in  health  he  was  compelled  to  relinquish  it  about  a  year  ago. 
