Am  Jour.  Pharm.l 
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be  unable  to  contribute  the  compilation  of  the  toxicological  researches.  Prof.  Dra- 
gendorff  then  agreed  to  furnish  the  report,  and  although  the  time  for  accomplishing 
this  has  been  very  limited,  he  has,  aided  by  Messrs.  E.  Masing,  E.  Johannson, 
Nentwich  and  Prof.  Morel,  succeeded  in  producing  a  volume  which  is  in  every  way 
a  worthy  successor  of  the  long  series  of  thirty  volumes  edited  by  Prof.  Wiggers. 
The  arrangement  of  matter  remains  nearly  unaltered,  and  the  selections  are  as 
complete  and  the  references  to  the  various  journals  as  full  and  accurate  as  to  leave 
nothing  to  desire.  We  confess,  however,  to  have  been  somewhat  surprised  in  find- 
ing enumerated  in  the  bibliographical  list  a  work  on  new-school  remedies,  by  the 
notorious  Dr.  Paine,  which  would  not  have  received  the  same  compliment  on  this 
side  of  the  Atlantic. 
Twelfth  Annual  Report  of  the  Alumni  Association  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy.   1876.    8vo,  pp.  46. 
The  pamphlet  contains  Prof.  Remington1*  Valedictory  Address,  Mr.  Eberle's 
Annual  Address,  the  President's  Report,  an  account  of  the  Annual  Reception  in 
March  last,  Minutes  of  the  Meetings  of  the  Association  and  of  the  Executive 
Board,  etc.  We  learn  from  the  minutes  that,  in  addition  to  the  Alumni  prizes 
mentioned  on  page  186  of  our  April  number,  a  silver  medal  has  been  awarded  by 
the  Executive  Board  to  Mr.  Henry  Schroeder,  of  Chicago,  besides  the  certificate  of 
proficiency  received  by  him  in  March  5  also,  a  certificate  of  proficiency  in  chemistry 
to  Mr.  J.  C.  Martin,  of  Allegheny  City. 
OBITUARIES. 
Antoine  Jerome  Balard,  member  of  the  Paris  Academy  of  Sciences  and 
Professor  of  Chemistry  at  the  College  de  France,  died  in  Paris,  last  April,  after 
a  short  illness,  which,  for  several  months,  had  been  preceded  by  a  gradually-in- 
creasing debility.  Balard  was  born  at  Montpellier  in  1802,  received  a  thorough 
pharmaceutical  education,  and  was  afterwards  attached,  as  Preparateur  de  Chimie, 
to  the  School  of  Pharmacy  and  Faculty  of  Sciences  of  his  native  city.  While  labor- 
ing in  this  capacity,  he  liberated  from  the  ashes  of  seaweed  a  new  element,  to  which 
he  gave  the  name  of  bromine.  The  essay  announcing  this  discovery  was  published 
in  1826,  and  contained  extended  researches  by  which  the  young  discoverer  proved 
its  chemical  analogy  to  the  previously -discovered  elements,  chlorine  and  iodine. 
This  discovery  was  made  only  a  short  period  after  the  opposition  against  the  ele- 
mentary nature  of  chlorine  had  ceased  ;  its  effect  upon  the  alkalies  and  alkaline 
earths,  however,  could  not  be  harmonized  with  existing  theories,  until  in  1834  Bal- 
ard announced  the  discovery  of  hypochlorous  acid,  and  explained  the  chorinated  com- 
pounds mentioned  as  mixtures  of  chlorides  and  hypochlorites.  Amongst  Balard's 
researches  which  were  destined  to  have  an  important  bearing  upon  industrial  arts, 
should  be  mentioned  yet  his  investigations  upon  the  salts  of  sea-water,  with  a  view 
of  utilizing,  besides  the  sodium,  also  the  potassium  salts. 
