130  Pharmacy  and  Pharmacists.  {^bluZ'yfml™' 
Another  subject  considered  in  Mr.  Mohr's  paper  related  to  the 
manufacture  of  cane  sugar.  Recently  manufacturers  of  products  in 
which  sugar  is  largely  used  have  invested  in  sugar  lands,  with  the 
purpose  of  raising  cane  and  manufacturing  sugar.  A  well-known 
Philadelphia  pharmacist,  Josiah  C.  Peacock,  now  engaged  in  other 
work,  has  been  active  along  these  lines. 
The  life  and  activities  of  Charles  Mohr  have  a  bearing  on  the 
title  of  this  paper  exemplifying  by  the  work  of  one  pharmacist  the 
indirect  services  of  pharmacy  to  industry  and  by  his  investigation 
added  to  the  source  of  our  knowledge.  Therefore  a  running  sketch 
is  deemed  of  interest. 
Charles  Mohr  was  born  in  Germany  in  1824.  His  father  was 
engaged  in  chemical  manufacturing,  and  several  of  his  relativesjwere 
in  one  way  or  another  associated  with  the  Forestry  Divisions.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-one  he  made  his  first  exploring  trip,  which  was  to 
Northern  South  America  in  1846,  from  whence,  after  a  short  stay, 
illness  compelled  his  return  home.  In  1848  he  came  back  to  the 
United  States,  visited  New  York  and  Philadelphia,  and  thence  went 
West,  locating  for  a  time  in  Cincinnati,  where  he  became  associated 
with  a  German  manufacturer  of  chemicals.  In  1849  he  joined  a 
party  going  to  California,  and  on  this  journey  lost  his  herbarium; 
and  soon  after  coming  to  the  mines  was  taken  sick,  and  travelled 
on  to  San  Francisco.  In  the  meantime  he  had  again  made  quite  a 
large  collection  of  plants. 
He  concluded  to  go  to  Panama.  Soon  after  he  arrived  there 
he  was  attacked  with  fever  and  decided  to  return  to  the  United 
States.  While  sick,  his  collection  of  plants  was  stolen.  In  Decem- 
ber of  1850  he  came  back  to  Cincinnati,  and  from  here  settled  on  a 
farm  in  Clark  County,  Indiana.  Farm  labor  not  agreeing  with  him, 
he  removed  to  Louisville  and  became  assistant  to  an  apothecary,  in 
which  firm  he  soon  thereafter  became  a  member.  He  then  renewed 
his  botanical  studies  with  Leo  Lesquereaux,  taking  up  the  mosses, 
which  work  was  not  published  until  in  1884. 
On  account  of  the  condition  of  his  health  he  travelled  South  to 
Louisiana,  and  thereafter  to  Vera  Cruz,  where  he  landed  in  the  early 
part  of  1857.  There  he  engaged  in  pharmaceutical  business,  but  on 
account  of  a  revolution  he  was  compelled  to  leave  and  returned  to 
the  United  States,  landing  in  Mobile,  December  1857,  and  soon  en- 
