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Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  PUarm. 
Oct..  1888. 
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OBITUARY. 
Robert  Coulton  Davis,  Ph.  G.,  class  1844,  and  a  member  of  the  Philadel- 
phia College  of  Pharmacy,  died  in  this  city  August  24th.  His  graduation 
thesis  on  cantharides  was  published  in  this  Journal,  1844,  page  81.  He  was 
in  business  for  many  years  at  16th  and  Vine  streets. 
Dr.  James  Kemble,  Ph.  G.,  class  1861,  died  in  Philadelphia,  suddenly, 
August  3.  After  carrying  on  the  drug  business  for  a  number  of  years,  he 
studied  medicine,  and  of  late  years  was  a  homoeopathic  practitioner. 
Harry  L.  Pfund  died  at  the  residence  of  his  parents  in  Philadelphia,  July 
19,  aged  20  years.  He  was  an  apprentice  in  the  store  of  John  A.  Martin,. 
Ph.  G.,  and  a  diligent  and  attentive  student  at  the  College,  where  he  success- 
fully passed  a  partial  senior  examination  last  March. 
John  C.  Sa.very,  Ph.  G.,  class  1851,  died  suddenly  at  Winona,  Ohio,  August 
1st,  while  on  a  visit  to  his  brother.  He  left  the  drug  business  many  years 
ago  for  the  practice  of  law,  his  office  having  been  lately  at  731  Walnut 
street. 
Thomas  J.  Scott,  Ph.  G.,  class  1846,  died  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  March  22* 
aged  59  years.  He  was  formerly  in  business  in  Philadelphia,  but  having  a 
fondness  for  art  he  devoted  his  time  during  the  latter  part  of  his  life  to- 
painting  and  became  noted  particularly  as  a  painter  of  trotting  horses. 
Richard  Anthony  Proctor,  well  known  throughout  the  civilized  world  as  an 
astronomer,  died  in  New  York  City  of  yellow  fever,  September  12.  The  de- 
ceased was  born  in  Chelsea,  England,  March  23, 1837,  and  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen became  a  clerk  in  a  London  bank,  devoting  his  leisure  time  to  the 
study  of  his  favorite  science,  mathematics.  Subsequently  he  attended 
King's  College,  London,  and  St.  John's  College,  Cambridge,  and  graduated 
in  1860.  Many  of  his  essays  and  books  are  strictly  scientific,  more  particu- 
larly the  earlier  ones,  like  "  Double  Stars  "  (1863),  "  Saturn  and  its  System  " 
(1865),  "  Gnomonic  Star  Atlas,"  and  "  Handbook  of  the  Stars  "  (1866) ;  but, 
in  1870,  with  his  work  on  "Other  Worlds  than  Ours;  the  plurality  of 
worlds  studied  under  the  light  of  recent  scientific  researches,"  he  en- 
tered the  field  of  popular  science,  in  which  he  has  been  one  of  the  best 
known  authors  of  popular  astronomical  works,  and  of  contributions  to 
magazine  literature.  Mr.  Proctor  visited  the  United  States  in  1873  on  a 
lecture  tour,  and  of  late  years  had  an  observatory  at  Oak  Lawn,  Marion 
County,  Florida,  where  he  spent,  with  his  family,  a  portion  of  last  summer, 
arriving  in  New  York  September  10,  on  his  way  to  England.  The  general 
fatigue  of  which  he  complained  rapidly  developed  into  yellow  fever ;  on  the 
night  of  September  11  he  was  removed  from  the  Westminster  hotel  to  the 
Willard  Parker  Hospital,  where  he  died  on  the  following  day. 
