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Obituary, 
j  Am.  Jour.  Pharm^ 
X       Dec,  1883. 
United  States  Salary  List  and  Civil  Service  Law,  Rules  and  Regulations 
with  Specimen  Examination  Questions  in  the  Custom-House,  Post-Office 
and  Classified  Departmental  Service.    Prepared  under  the  direction  of 
Henry  N.  Copp,  Attorney  and  Counsellor-at-Law.    Washington,  D.  C, 
1883.    8vo,  pp.  143. 
The  salary  list  is  an  interesting  statistical  compilation,  filling  the  greater 
portion  of  the  pamphlet  before  us.  The  specimen  examination  questions 
show  the  scope  and  character  of  the  examinations  held  under  the  Civil  Ser- 
vice Law. 
The  Rhi/sician^s  Daily  Pocket  Record,  comprising  a  Visiting  List,  many 
Useful  Memoranda,  Tables,  etc.  By  S.  W.  Butler,  M.D.  Eighteenth, 
year.  Philadelphia:  published  at  the  office  of  the  " Medical  and  Surgi- 
cal Reporter." 
The  Rhysician^s  Visiting  List  for  1884.    Thirty-third  year  of  its  publica- 
tion.   Philadelphia:  P.  Blakiston,  Son  &  Co. 
OBITUARY. 
PfiOFESSOR  James  Lawrence  Smith  died  in  Louisville,  October  12^ 
He  was  born  in  Charleston,  S.  C,  December  16,  1818,  and  after  studying- 
natural  sciences  at  the  University  of  Virginia  and  in  Paris,  was  for  about- 
two  years  engaged  in  the  geological  survey  of  Turkey.  He  afterwards 
resided  mostly  in  Louisville,  where  he  was  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the 
University  of  Louisville  and  subsequently  engaged  in  manufacture.  About 
twenty-five  years  ago  the  deceased  contributed  a  number  of  valuable  papers 
to  this  Journal,  mostly  on  medicinal  chemicals  ;  but  most  of  his  contri- 
butions to  science,  which  related  chiefly  to  analytical  chemistry  and  to 
mineralogy,  were  published  in  the  Chemical  News,  the  American  Journal 
of  Science  and  Arts,  and  in  the  American  Chemist;  the  more  important  of 
these  papers  were  republished  about  ten  years^ago,  under  the  title  "  Miner- 
alogy and  Chemistry,  Original  Researches." 
Robert  F.  Fairthorne,  Ph.  G.,  died  in  Philadelphia,  October  22,  after 
an  illness  of  about  three  weeks  from  bilious  dysentery,  terminating  ini 
typhoid  fever.  He  was  born  at  St.  Albans  Herts,  England,  came  to  this^ 
country  when  about  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  learned  the  apothecary  busi- 
ness with  the  late  Bradford  Ritter.  After  graduating  at  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy,  in  1855,  he  wrote  a  number  of  papers  for  this  Journal, 
mostly  on  practical  and  analytical  subjects. 
Theobald  Frohwein,  Ph.  G.,  a  member  of  the  New  York  Pharmacy 
Board  and  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy, 
died  in  that  city,  November  16.  The  deceased  was  born  in  Atzmannsdorf,., 
Thuringia,  Germany,  and  came  to  this  country  about  twenty-five  years  ago. 
He  graduated  from  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1863,  and  took  a. 
deep  interest  in  this  institution,  serving  for  many  years  as  its  treasurer. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and 
in  public  life  occupied  various  positions  of  honor  and  trust. 
