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Obituary. 
{  Am  jour  Pnarm. 
\       Dec,  1880. 
works,  and,  among  others,  the  ''American  Journal  of  Pliarmacy  "  was  issued,  with 
his  imprint.  After  a  few  years  Mr.  Merrihew  entered  into  business  for  himself,  and 
in  partnership  first  with  Mr.  L.  C.  Gunn  and  then  with  Lewis  Thompson 5  he  was 
engaged  in  printing  the  Journal  ever  since  it  was  regularly  published.  The  earn- 
estness, strict  integrity  and  attention  to  business,  which  ever  characterized  him,  made 
him  respected  among  all  who  knew  him,  and  we  feel  that  it  is  but  fitting  that  some 
record  of  one  whose  whole  business  career  has  been  intimately  connected  with  the 
publication  of  this  journal  should  be  made  upon  our  pages  as  a  tribute  to  his  worth,, 
and  to  give  expression  to  the  regret  his  death  has  occasioned. 
Professor  Dr.  Philipp  Phobus  died  July  ist.  He  was  born  at  the  Prussian 
town  of  Markisch-Friedland,  May  27,  1804,  studied  medicine,  and  in  1843  became 
Professor  of  Pharmacology  at  the  University  of  Giessen,  Besides  several  books  and 
pamphlets,  he  wrote  a  large  number  of  essays  on  physical,  mineralogical,  botanical,, 
pharmaceutical,  anatomical  and  medical  subjects.  The  deceased  was  one  of  the 
most  zealous  and  able  advocates  for  the  elevation  of  pharmacy,  and  the  author  of  a 
draft  for  a  German  pharmacy  law,  which  was  finished  in  the  fall  of  1875,  has 
not  been  published.  He  also  contributed  largely  to  the  International  Pharmaco- 
poeia, the  work  on  which  was  begun  in  1868  by  a  number  of  prominent  European 
pharmacists. 
Dr.  J.  Rudolf  von  Wagner,  Professor  of  Technology  at  the  University  of 
Wurzburg,  died  there  October  5,  in  the  58th  year  of  his  age.  He  had  previously 
been  Lecturer  on  Chemistry  in  his  native  city,  Leipzig,  and  Professor  at  the  Poly- 
technic School  of  Nuremberg.  He  wrote  a  history  of  chemistry,  edited  a  German 
edition  of  Gerhard's  Chemistry,  and  was  the  author  of  the  well-known  hand-book 
on  chemical  technology.  The  Bavarian  government  sent  him  as  an  expert  to  sev- 
eral international  expositions,  among  them  also  to  that  held  at  Philadelphia  in  1876. 
Dr.  Carl  Philipp  Falck,  Professor  of  Pharmacology  at  the  University  of  Mar- 
burg, died  June  30,  in  the  64th  year  of  his  age.  For  several  years  previous  to  1857 
he  was  one  of  the  contributors  to  the  well-known  Cannstatt's  Jahresbericht,  and 
wrote  the  reports  on  pharmaco-dynamics  and  toxicology. 
Walter  W.  Koehler,  a  graduate  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,. 
Class  1877,  died  recently  of  heart  disease,  at  St.  Augustine,  Fla.,  aged  23  years. 
He  was  a  Philadelphian  by  birth,  and  for  about  two  years  prior  to  his  death  carried 
on,  in  connection  with  his  brothei',  a  retail  drug  store  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y, 
Professor  Wilhelm  Philipp  Schimper  died,  in  Strassburg,  March^2oth,  in 
the  73d  year  of  his  life.  H^-  was  born  in  Lower  Alsace,  and  In  i835^became  Natu- 
ralist of  the  Geological  and  Mineralogical  Museum,  and  in  1862  Professor  of  Geo- 
logy at  Strassburg,  which  position  he  deld  until  1879.  The  deceased  was  well 
known  for  his  researches  in  botany,  zoology  and  mineralogoy.  He  was  the  uncle 
of  the  botanists  Carl  Friedrich  and  Wilhelm  Schimper,  and  his  son  Wilhelm  has 
already  become  knov^n  for  his  botanical  researches. 
