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Friedrich  August  Fliickiger. 
Am.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
February,  1895. 
rial  fund  is  the  establishment  of  one  or  more  endowments  for  talented 
students  in  pharmacognosy,  and  of  a  Fliickiger  Medal  to  be  pre- 
sented at  special  occasions  to  distinguished  investigators  and 
scholars  in  the  domain  of  pharmaceutical  and  kindred  sciences  and 
arts.  In  the  course  of  three  years  this  medal  has  been  conferred 
upon  eighteen  gentlemen.1 
At  the  time  when  Professor  Fliickiger  entered  pharmacy,  the 
domain  of  chemistry,  as  well  as  of  botany,  could  be  fairly  well  mas- 
tered by  an  intellect  so  richly  endowed  with  the  power  of  ready 
comprehension  and  with  an  unusual  memory.  A  prodigious  amount 
of  solid  knowledge  in  all  departments  of  literature  relating  to  phar- 
maceutical and  kindred  sciences,  and  close  application,  enabled  him 
to  keep  abreast  with  the  prolific  and  large  accumulation  of  new 
facts,  resulting  from  the  progress  of  chemical  and  botanical  knowl- 
edge. He  early  became  interested  in  plant  drugs,  and  his  bent 
towards  an  historical  aspect  in  all  knowledge  gradually  led  his 
interest  and  study  pre-eminently  in  this  direction.  Otto  Berg  had 
inaugurated  principles  and  methods  of  stricter  discrimination  in  the 
1  As  the  list  of  the  recipients  of  the  Fliickiger  Medal  has  been  frequently 
reported  incorrectly,  the  names  may  here  be  mentioned  as  they  were  recently 
published  by  the  committee  in  Bern  :  John  Attfield  of  London  ;  H.  Beckurts 
of  Braunschweig ;  Born  of  Buenos  Ayres  ;  G.  Dragendorff  of  Dorpat ;  H.  T. 
Fritzsche  of  Leipzig  ;  P.  Giacosa  of  Turin  ;  Thorn.  Hanbury  of  La  Mortola ; 
A.  Hilger  of  Munich  ;  Fr.  Hoffmann  of  New  York  ;  Th.  Husemann  of  Got- 
tingeti  ;  J.  B.  Xagelvoort  of  Detroit;  Nyegaard  of  Christiania  ;  Theod.  Peck- 
olt  of  Rio  de  Janeiro  ;  Pfersdorff  of  vStrassburg  ;  G.  Planchou  of  Paris  ;  E. 
vSchaer  of  vStrassburg  ;  Alex.  Tschirch  of  Bern  ;  A.  Vogl  of  Vienna. 
