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EDITORIAL. 
Twenty-third,  Annual  Report  of  the  Managers  of  the  State  Lunatic  Asylum, 
for  1865.    Albany,  New  York,  1806,  pp.  49. 
Burgoyne,  Burbridge  and  Squire's  Monthly  Price  Current ;  16  Coleman  St., 
London.    May  1st,  1866,  pp.  16.  Folio. 
Concentrated  Extract  of  Beef,  of  Tourtelot  Brothers,  Chicago,  111.,  pre- 
pared in  vacuo  at  a  temperature  of  120°  F. ;  put  up  in  small  tin  cans. 
This  "Extract  "  is  soft  and  moist  and  claims  to  yield  the  "  Beef- tea  '[ 
more  readily  than  the  solid  extract.  We  have  not  yet  had  an  opportu- 
nity to  test  it. 
OBITUARIES. 
William  Thomas  Brande,  Esq.,  D.  C.  L.,  F.  R.  S. — The  able  and  well 
known  chemist,  who  died  on  the  18th  inst.,  at  Tunbridge  Wells,  was  the 
scion  of  a  Hanoverian  family  which  settled  in  England,  temp,  George  II., 
his  grandfather  and  father  being  both  Royal  Physicians  here.  He  was 
born  in  1786,  and  was  educated  at  Westminster  School.  After  a  subse- 
quent  sojourn  in  Hanover,  he  returned  to  England,  and  became  a  student 
of  St.  George's  Hospital,  attending  in  1805  and  1806  the  lectures  of  Dr. 
George  Pearson  on  Chemistry,  &c,  and  afterwards  those  of  Frederick  Ac- 
cum.  Subsequently  he  became  assistant  to  Sir  Humphry  Davy,  at  the 
Royal  Institution.  He,  in  1808,  gave  satisfaction  as  a  lecturer  on  chemis- 
try at  Dr.  Hooper's,  in  Cork  Street,  and  then  joined,  as  teacher  and  dem- 
onstrator of  chemistry,  the  Medical  school  in  Windmill  Street.  In  1809 
he  was  made  a  F.R.S.,  he  received  the  Copley  Medal  in  1813,  and  was 
made  Senior  Secretary  of  the  Royal  Society.  In  1812  he  was  appointed 
Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Materia  Medica  to  the  Apothecaries'  Company, 
and  in  1851,  was  elected  Master  of  the  Company.  He  was,  in  1813,  made 
Professor  of  Chemistry  at  the  Royal  Institution,  and  delivered  lectures  for 
many  years,  with  great  success  and  popularity,  in  conjunction  with  Mr. 
Faraday,  who  was  also  associated  with  him  as  editor,  for  a  long  period,  of 
the  Quarterly  Journal  of  Science.  He  was,  in  1825,  made  superintendent  of 
the  coining  department  of  the  Mint.  About  1837  he  was  associated  with 
Mr.  Griffiths  in  chemical  lectures  at  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital.  He  was 
also  a  fellow  and  examiner  of  the  London  University.  He  was  the  author 
of  a  standard  ' '  Manual  of  Chemistry,"  which  has  been  translated  into 
many  foreign  languages.  He  was  also  author  of  "  Outlines  of  Geology" 
and  a  "Dictionary  of  Pharmacy,"  and  was  editor  of  a  "  Dictionary  of 
Science,  Literature  and  Art."  He,  in  1853,  received  the  honorary  degree  of 
D.C.L.  from  the  University  of  Oxford. 
William  Southall,  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society,  died  at  Birmingham  on  the  16th  of  March,  1866,  aged  69  years. 
He  manifested  much  interest  in  the  movements  which  resulted  in  establish- 
ing the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  and  for  some  years  was  one  of  its  Council. 
He  was  always  ready  to  take  part  in  promoting  pharmaceutical  progress 
until  precluded  by  ill  health  during  the  latter  years  of  his  life,  and  leaves 
a  character  fair  and  bright  among  his  associates. 
