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Obituaries. 
Am.  Jour.  PharnT, 
June,  1873. 
The  reception  of  the  following  pamphlets  is  hereby  acknowledged  : 
Address  by  Prof.  E.  F.  Friscoe,  M.  Z).,  and  Introductory  by  Prof.  R.  H.  Stabler,  M.  D. 
Delivered  before  the  National  College  of  Pharmacy,  Washington,  D.  C.  1875.. 
8vo.  pp.  24. 
Thirty-second  Annual  Report  of  the  State  Lunatic  Asylum,  Utica,  N.  T.,  for  the yea^^ 
1874.    Transmitted  to  the  Legislature  January  15,  1875.    Albany:  8vo,  pp.  74. 
Fourth  Annual  Report  of  the  Dispensary  for  Skin  Diseases.   Philadelphia:  1875.  8vo/ 
Versuche  zur  synthetischen  Darstellung  des  A^ophenylens.    Von  Julius  John  Suckert: 
aus  San  Francisco,  U.  S.  A.    Freiburg:  1874.    33  pages. 
Experiments  for  the  synthetic  preparation  of  azophenylen. 
Cerebrospinal  Meningitis.  Report  to  the  State  Board  of  Health  upon  an  epidemic 
in  Monroe  and  Lenawee  counties,  Mich.,  and  a  study  of  some  facts  relative  to 
the  cause  of  the  disease.  By  Henry  B.  Baker,  M  D.,  Secretary  of  the  Board. 
1875.    8vo.,  pp.  193. 
The  last  pamphlet  is  a  reprint  from  the  Second  Annual  Report  of  the  State  BoarJ: 
of  Health  of  the  State  of  Michigan  for  the  year  ending  September  30,  1874. 
OBITUARIES. 
Thomas  Hollis,  formerly  President  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy y. 
died  in  Boston,  May  17th,  aged  seventy-three  years.  He  was  born  in  that  city  ir. 
1802,  and  while  quite  young  was  apprenticed  to  Dr.  Bartlett,  of  Charlestown,  Ir. 
1823  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Daniel  Gregg,  in  Union  street,  and  has  occuplel 
the  same  store  up  to  the  time  of  his  demise,  Mr.  Gregg  having  retired  from  the  firm 
in  1 83 1.  The  deceased  took  great  interest  in  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Phar- 
macy, of  which  institution  he  was  elected  a  trustee  in  1854,  Corresponding  Secre- 
tary in  1855,  Vice-President  in  1856,  and  President  in  1857,  resigning  the  latte: 
office  in  1871.  He  became  a  member  of  the  American  Pharmeceutical  Association 
in  1855  and  served  as  one  of  the  Vice-Presidents  for  the  years  1864-65. 
His  life  was  one  of  activity,  usefulness  and  success,  not  only  in  his  profession,  but 
also  in  his  business  relations  and  as  a  private  citizen.  He  acted  for  twenty  years  as 
director,  and  a  portion  of  this  time  as  chairman,  of  the  House  of  Industry;  he  had 
been  elected  to  the  Common  Council  of  Boston,  served  on  the  School  Committee, 
and  for  the  past  twenty  years  has  been  President  of  the  Howard  Benevolent  Society. 
He  leaves  four  children,  three  sons  and  one  daughter. 
The  druggists  and  apothecaries  of  Boston  assembled.  May  19th,  and,  in  a  series 
of  resolutions,  offered  a  tribute  to  his  private  and  public  virtues. 
Dr.  John  Gottlieb,  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  Polytechnic  High  School  of 
Gratz,  Austria,  died  there,  of  paralysis,  March  4th.  The  deceased  was  well  known 
from  his  investigations  of  the  fatty  acids  and  as  the  author  of  valuable  works  or 
systematic  and  technical  chemistry. 
