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OBITUARY. 
time  of  flowering,  part  used,  etc.  Henry  M.  Smith  &  Co.,  107  Fourth 
avenue.  New  York,  is  the  publisher,  to  whom  orders  should |)e  sent. 
The  Physicians  visiting  list  for  1871,  twentieth  year  of  its  publication. 
Philadelphia.    Lindsay  &  Blakiston. 
One  of  the  very  first  of  its  kind.  This  little  annual  helper  to  the  phy- 
sician again  presents  itself  for  notice,  and  deserves  the  large  patronage 
it  receives.  It  is  well  bound,  in  pocket-book  form  and  contains  a  good 
pencil. 
OBITUARY. 
Benjamin  Hrogden  Orridge,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Pharmaceu- 
tical Society  of  Great  Britain,  died  at  London,  on  the  17th  of  July,  1870, 
aged  57  years.  He  was  born  at  Malta,  where  his  father  held  an  official 
position,  but  returned  to  England  during  his  minority.  His  efforts 
in  the  "  Society  "  were  varied,  but  chiefly  directed  to  the  library  and  the 
benevolent  fund,  the  latter  being  his  especial  interest.  Mr.  Orridge's 
literary  labors  were  chiefly  of  an  archgeological  character. 
Prof.  William  Allen  Miller,  of  King's  College,  London,  died  at 
Liverpool,  of  apoplexy,  on  the  30th  of  September,  1870,  having  left  Lon- 
don on  the  13th  to  attend  the  British  Association,  and  taken  ill  en  route. 
He  was  born  Dec.  17th,  1817,  at  Ipswich,  was  two  years  at  Friends' 
school  at  Ackworth,  in  Yorkshire,  where  he  imbibed  a  taste  for  chemical 
pursuits.  He  afterwards  studied  medicine  at  King's  College,  studied 
chemistry  in  Liebig's  laboratory,  became  the  assistant  of  Prof.  Daniell 
and  afterwards  his  successor,  as  the  chemical  teacher  in  King's  College, 
where,  for  twenty-five  years,  he  taught  with  great  success.  As  a  man, 
Prof.  Miller  occupied  a  high  standing.  One  who  knew  him  says,  "  No 
man  since  Faraday  will  be  so  much  regretted."  "  It  was  impossible  to 
come  into  contact  with  him  without  feeling  oneself  in  the  presence  of  a 
man  of  pure  nature,  of  spotless  integrity,  of  sound  and  sagacious  judge- 
ment and  of  true  gentlemanly  feeling."  Prof.  Miller  is  chiefly  known  by 
his  treatise  on  chemistry,  published  in  1855.  His  writings  on  various 
subjects  are  in  the  Journals.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Royal  Society  and 
of  many  others,  and  was  an  honorary  member  of  the  Pharmaceutical  So- 
ciety, in  which  he  took  an  interest. 
Augustus  Matthiessen,  F.R.S.,  Prof,  of  Chemistry  at  St.  Bartholomew's 
Hospital,  died  on  the  6th  of  October,  from  the  effects  of  prussic  acid, 
taken  during  temporary  mental  depression.  He  was  born  in  London, 
Jan.  2d,  1831,  and  was  one  of  the  most  promising  of  the  younger  chemists 
of  England.  He  was  a  pupil  of  Bunsen,  and  whilst  in  his  laboratory 
wrote  his  essay  "  on  the  preparation  of  the  metals  of  the  alkalies  and 
alkaline  earths  by  electrolysis."  He  also  investigated  the  conductivity 
of  metals,  the  constitution  of  narcotina,  and,  more  recently,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  Mr.  Wright,  discovered  apomorphia.  He  was  a  fellow  of  the 
Royal  Society,  and  one  of  the  Editors  of  the  Philosophical  Magazine. 
William  McConnell,  a  prominent  member  of  the  Canadian  Pharma- 
ceutical Society,  died  on  the  28th  of  September,  from  the  effects  of  a 
railroad  accident.  He  lingered  for  ten  hours,  and  died,  having  retained 
his  faculties  until  death.  He  resided  at  Coburg,  and  leaves  a  widow  and 
four  children. —  Canad.  Pharm.  Journ. 
Dr.  Bolley,  of  Zurich,  Switzerland,  and  Professor  of  Chemistry  at 
the  celebrated  Polytechnic  Institution  in  that  city,  died  suddenly  on  the 
3d  of  August  last,  in  his  58th  year.    He  was  a  native  of  Heidelberg. 
