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OBITUARY. 
Annual  Address  of  the  Hon.  Charles  P.  Daly,  LL.D.,  President,  deliv- 
ered before  the  American  Geographical  and  Statistical  Society,  Jan. 
25,  1870.    New  York,  1870;  pp.  46. 
This  is  a  highly  interesting  resume  of  the  leading  facts  and  discoveries 
relating  to  geographical  science,  giving  a  connected  account  of  the 
various  efforts  recently  made  and  making  to  extend  the  bounds  of  the 
known  and  well  defined  on  the  earth's  present  surface. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr.  Joseph  Redtenbacher,  Professor  of -General  and  Pharmaceutical 
Chemistry  in  the  University  of  Vienna,  Austria,  died  in  that  city  March  5. 
On  the  same  day  and  in  the  same  city,  died  Franz  Beckert,  apothe- 
cary, and  Director  of  the  Austrian  Apothecaries'  Society,  in  his  74th 
year. 
The  celebrated  botanist  Franz  Unger,  born  in  Styria  in  1800,  was 
found  dead  in  his  bed  at  Graz,  Austria,  on  the  13th  of  February.  Having 
been  indisposed  for  some  time,  it  was  supposed  that  he  got  up  during  the 
night,  wounded  the  back  of  his  head  by  a  fall,  went  to  bed  again,  and  ex- 
pired through  paralysis  of  the  brain.  Subsequently  foul  play  was  sus- 
pected, and  a  near  relative  of  the  deceased  was  accused  of  the  murder. 
The  committee  of  the  Vienna  medical  faculty,  consisting  of  the  Profess- 
ors Dumreicher,  Schroff  and  Dlauby,  reported  against  the  theory  of  death 
by  violence. 
Fred.  Julius  Otto,  Professor  of  Technical  Chemistry  and  Pharmacy 
in  the  Collegium  Carolinum  at  Brunswick,  Germany,  died  there  on  the 
12th  of  January  last.  Born  in  Saxony  Jan.  8th,  1809,  he  became  a  phar- 
macist, but  soon  devoted  himself  to  teaching  chemistry,  and  in  1833  ac- 
cepted a  call  to  Brunswick,  where  he  remained  until  the  time  of  his  death , 
In  1837  he  published  his  first  work,  "On  the  Rational  Practice  of  the 
Technical  Arts  ;"  in  1852 — 56  his  celebrated  work  on  Chemistry,  based 
upon  Graham's  Ekments  of  Chemistry;  in  1856,  "On  the  Detection  of 
Poisons  ;"  in  1857, On  the  Manufacture  of  Vinegar."  Numerous  essays 
of  his  are  scattered  through  various  chemical  journals.  In  his  death 
pharmacy  has  lost  one  of  her  brightest  disciples,  and  chemistry  one  of  her 
most  devoted  experts. 
M.  Fr.  Kirschleger  died  on  the  15th  of  November,  1869,  in  his  66th 
year,  having  been  born  on  the  6th  of  January,  1804,  at  Munster  (Haut 
Rhin).  He  was  apprenticed  to  M.  SufFert,  of  Ribeauville,  as  a  pharma- 
cien.  He  also]  studied  for  some  time  with  M.  Charles  Nesler,  Prof,  of 
Botany  and  Pharmacien-in-Chief  of  the  Civil  Hospitals.  In  1827  he  went 
to  Paris,  and  in  1828  sustained  his  thesis  for  the  Doctorate.  In  1834  he 
established  himself  at  Strasburg,  and  afterwards  became  Professor  of 
Botany  at  the  School  of  Pharmacy  there. 
The  works  of  M.  Kirschleger  are  chiefly  botanical,  and  include  a  pro- 
droraus  of  the  Flora  of  Alsace.  In  1852  he  commenced  the  publication 
of  the  Flora  of  Alsace,  and  continued  it  through  several  volumes. 
