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OBITUARY. 
Much  attention  has  recently  been  given  by  Mr.  Bujac  to  the  reduction 
of  the  teofiperature  of  apartments  for  brewers  and  others  requiring  a 
modified  and  regular  heat.  Those  desirous  of  information  on  the  subject 
would  do  well  to  get  the  pamphlet  as  above. 
OBITUARY. 
Sir  James  Clark,  Bart.,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  died  at  Bagshot  Park,  Surrey, 
on  the  29th  of  June.  He  was  born  in  1788,  educated  at  King's  College, 
Aberdeen,  completed  his  medical  studies  at  Edinburgh  University,  passed 
some  years  as  Surgeon  in  the  Navy,  settled  at  Rome  in  1820,  returned  to 
London  in  1826,  became  physician  to  the  Duchess  of  Kent  and  Princess 
Victoria,  and  was  knighted  by  the  latter  after  her  accession  to  the  throne. 
Sir  James  took  a  lively  interest  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  at  the  time  of  its  establishment  and  afterwards. 
Albrecht  Yon  Graefe — This  celebrated  physician  and  oculist,  whose 
recent  death  is  announced  in  the  journals,  was  born  in  Berlin  in  1825, 
and  was  the  son  of  an  eminent  surgeon.  After  finishing  his  academic 
studies,  he  spent  some  time  in  England  in  company  with  Prof.  Donders, 
of  Holland,  and  returning  to  Berlin  established  the  Ophthalmic  Hospital 
now  so  celebrated.  In  1853,  in  connection  with  Arlt  and  Donders,  he 
founded  the  Archiv.  fur  Opthalmologie,  to  which  he  continued  to  his 
death  an  active  contributor.  His  great  discovery  was  that  glaucoma,  or 
disorganization  of  the  eye-ball,  could  be  arrested  by  iridectomy.  "  The 
Lancet"  says  of  him  :  "There  can  hardly  be,  either  in  Europe  or  Ame- 
rica, a  community  of  10,000  persons  which  does  not  contain  at  least  one 
individual  who  is  in  the  enjoyment  of  vision  that  has  been  preserved  by 
iridectomy,  and  who  if  Yon  Graefe  had  not  lived  would  now  be  unable 
to  see  the  sun."  As  a  physician  he  owed  much  of  his  success  to  a  com- 
bination of  suavity  and  firmness  of  manner,  and,  like  Simpson,  was  fol- 
lowed to  the  grave  with  profound  regret  by  a  wide  circle  of  friends  and 
patients. 
M.  Sembenini,  of  Yerona,  Italy,  died  recently,  aged  sixty-five  years. 
He  took  much  interest  in  the  literature  of  Italian  Pharmacy,  and  was 
the  translator  of  the  "  Codex  Francaise,"  the  Traite  de  Pliarmacie  of 
Soubeiran,  and  other  works, 
M.  Leroux,  pbarmacien  of  Yitry-le-Francais,  was  buried  on  the  22d  of 
May,  1870,  at  the  age  of  65  years.    He  was  the  discoverer  of  salicin. 
James  Copland,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  of  London,  eminent  as  a  medical  writer 
and  practitioner,  died  on  the  12th  of  July,  at  Kilburn,  in  his  79th  year. 
