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was  elected  its  Yice-President,  aod  was  in  good  esteem  among  his  breth- 
ren as  an  able  pharmaceutist  and  an  honorable  and  worthy  member  of 
the  community.  Mr.  Notson  leaves  a  widow  and  daughter,  having  mar- 
ried about  two  years  since. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  St.  Josephs,  that 
body  passed  resolutions  appreciative  of  the  deceased  and  sympathizing 
with  his  family. 
Samuel  Lenher,  Pharmaceutist  of  Philadelphia,  died  of  disease  of  the 
heart,  on  the  evening  of  the  20th  inst.,  in  the  forty-sixth  year  of  his  age. 
Mr.  Lenher's  first  connection  with  our  business  was  in  a  store  where 
the  opportunities  for  education  were  so  meagre,  and  the  character  of  the 
employment  so  distasteful  that  he  had  determined  to  make  a  change, 
which  he  soon  after  carried  into  effect,  as  he  found  a  situation  in  the 
establishment  of  the  late  Frederick  Brown,  where  he  continued  his  studies 
and  graduated  after  a  term  of  four  years  apprenticeship. 
His  connection  with  Mr.  Brown  was  an  unusually  long  one,  lasting  be- 
tween sixteen  and  seventeen  years,  an  evidence  of  the  high  estimate  that 
his  acute  preceptor  set  upon  his  services  ;  he  was  for  twelve  years  the 
chief  assistant  in  the  establishment,  and  to  his  scientific  knowledge  and 
attention  to  business  much  of  the  superiority  of  his  employers  pharmacy 
must  be  attributed.  A  remarkable  aptitude  for  mechanics  enabled  him 
to  design  and  execute  apparatus  that  proved  very  valuable  in  business; 
it  is  to  be  regretted  that  his  modesty  and  retiring  disposition  prerented 
him  from  becoming  better  acquainted  with  his  pharmaceutical  brethren, 
and  them  from  learning  much  that  he  would  have  been  pleased  to  com- 
municate. 
To  those  who  were  well  acquainted  with  him,  he  was  gentle  and  plea- 
sant in  manners,  while  free  and  decided  in  the  expression  of  his  opinions  ; 
but  it  was  in  the  relations  of  son  and  brother  his  character  was  most 
beautifully  manifested  by  the  affection  he  ever  evinced  for  his  family. 
For  the  last  few  months  his  health,  which  had  been  seriously  impaired 
by  too  close  attention  to  a  business  we  all  know  permits  far  too  little  time 
for  relaxation,  gave  way  and  he  gradually  sunk  after  great  suffering. 
T.  S.  W. 
Sir  J  AMES  Young  Simpson.  "  The  death  of  the  distinguished  discoverer 
of  the  anaes'thetical  properties  of  chloroform,  Sir  James  Y.  Simpson,  at 
Edinburgh,  on  the  8th  of  May,  of  angina  pectoris  complicated  with  heart 
disease,  in  his  59th  year,  is  announced  by  cable.  Dr.  Simpson  was  born 
in  the  year  1811,  in  Bathgate,  Linlithgowshire,  Scotland.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  University  of  Edinburgh,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1832  with  the  degree  of  M.U.  Immediately  after  graduating  he  was 
appointed  an  assistant  to  Professor  Thomson  of  the  University,  and  he 
proved  his  eminent  fitness  for  the  position  by  an  able  series  of  lectures 
which  he  delivered  during  the  illness  of  his  principal,  in  1836.  In  1840 
Dr.  Simpson  was  elected  to  the  Professorship  of  Midwifery  in  the  lidin- 
