FricdricJi  August  Fdiickiger. 
f  Am.  Jour  Pharm. 
V    February,  1895. 
tuted  by  himself  or  jointly  with  advanced  students  during  his  30 
years  of  academic  activity  as  professor  and  director  of  University 
laboratories  in  Bern  and  Strassburg.  Most  of  Fluckiger's  writings, 
and  especially  the  miscellaneous  essays,  are  distinguished  by  his 
mastery  of  a  concise  style  and  logical  diction,  and  by  the  wealth 
and  the  depth  of  his  philosophical  and  historical  conception,  and 
therefore  are  as  attractive  as  they  are  instructive.  Some  of  his 
essays  may,  on  account  of  the  beauty  and  grace  of  their  style  and 
conception,  well  be  ranked  among  the  few  classic  productions  in 
modern  pharmaceutical  literature. 
As  a  teacher  Professor  Fliickiger  was  esteemed  on  account  of  his 
conscientious  and  painstaking  consideration  of  every  detail  in  the 
instruction,  both  on  the  platform  and  in  the  laboratory  ;  he  was  not 
so  much  a  fluent  as  an  impressive  lecturer.  His  reputation  drew 
pharmaceutical  students  from  various  countries  to  the  University  of 
Strassburg,  and  not  a  few  of  the  most  eminent  pharmaceutical 
scholars  of  the  younger  generation  at  home  and  abroad  have 
received  his  instruction,  and  by  his  inspiration  have  been  imbued 
with  a  taste  for  knowledge  and  research  for  their  own  intrinsic 
interest  and  value,  and  for  thoroughness  in  all  study.  They  cling 
with  veneration  to  the  memory  of  their  departed  teacher  and 
master. 
Professor  Fluckiger's  health  had  been  failing  for  about  one  year. 
Early  last  year  he  accepted  a  long-standing  invitation  of  friends  to 
visit  our  country,  at  the  same  time  hoping  that  the  sea  voyage  dur- 
ing the  summer  months  would  prove  beneficial  to  his  health.  He 
furthermore  expected  to  search  some  of  our  larger  public  and  pri- 
vate libraries  for  historical  material  in  reference  to  American  drugs, 
in  addition  to  the  accumulated  material  for  his  contemplated  his- 
torical work.  After  a  pleasant  voyage  from  Genoa,  he  arrived  here 
on  the  28th  of  May,  stopping  most  of  the  time  of  his  stay  in  America 
in  Brooklyn,  paying  brief  visits  to  Washington,  Baltimore,  Phila- 
delphia and  Boston,  making  a  trip  to  Niagara  and  resting  for  a  few 
weeks  at  a  summer  resort  in  the  Shawangunk  Mountains,  N.  Y.,  and 
at  Cape  Cod,  Mass.  At  the  end  of  August  Prof.  Fliickiger  attended 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Association  for  the  Advance- 
ment of  Science,  in  Brooklyn,  and  made  there  the  personal  acquaint- 
ance of  many  American  scholars  long  and  well  known  to  him.  He 
returned  to  Europe  on  September  15th,  and  after  a  delightful  sail  to 
