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EDITORIAL. 
book  for  the  apothecary  in  the  United  States.  The  book  is  well  printed,  and 
the  price  but  is  one  dollar,  the  previous  edition  being  $2.50.  Every  apothe- 
cary and  physician  should  obtain  a  copy  of  it  to  be  able  to  tell  what  are  the 
preparations  officially  recognized  as  officinal. 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  the  fourth  An- 
nual Meeting  held  in  New  York,  Sept.  llth,  12th,  IZth,  1855.  Published 
by  direction  of  the  Association.  New  York,  1855.  pp.  40.  Octavo. 
In  addition  to  the  minutes,  &c.  published  in  this  Journal  for  Nov.  1855, 
the  official  "  proceedings ;'  contains  the  Reports  of  several  committees 
possessed  of  considerable  interest,  as  for  instance  those  on  «  Home  Adul- 
terations," and  on  "  the  law  regulating  the  importation  of  drugs  and 
medicines."    The  former  will  be  found  at  page  126  of  this  number. 
Obituary. — Majendie,  Braconnot,  Johnston,  Beck,  Quevenne,  Huraut, 
Baget,  and  Hollows. — The  last  few  months  have  been  marked  by  the 
deaths  of  many  noted  physicians  and  pharmaceutists.  On  the  8th  of  Octo- 
ber, Francis  Majendie,  the  celebrated  physiologist  and  author  of  Majen- 
die's  Formulary,  died  at  Paris,  after  a  long  illness,  in  the  73d  year  of  his 
age.  He  was  a  native  of  Bordeaux,  and  has  been  thirty-four  years  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Institute.  Died,  at  Nancy,  on  the  13th  Jan.,  1855,  M.  Braconnot, 
long  known  as  one  of  the  earliest  investigators  of  proximate  organic  chem- 
istry. His  numerous  papers  are  interspersed  over  thirty  volumes  of  the 
Journal  de  Pharmacie,  and  relate  to  a  great  variety  of  subjects.  On  the 
18th  of  September,  Prof.  J.  F.  W.  Johnston,  the  distinguished  Agricultural 
Chemist  of  Durham,  England,  died  at  his  residence  in  that  place.  Prof. 
Johnston  is  extensively  known  in  this  country,  through  his  popular  works 
on  Chemical  subjects.  Died  at  Albany,  on  the  19th  of  November,  Dr. 
Theodoric  Komeyn  Beck,  author  of  the  Medical  Jurisprudence  that  bears 
his  name.  Died  at  Paris,  M.  Theodore  Quevenne,  Pharmacien  en  chef  de 
la  Charite  de  Paris,  and  one  of  the  most  distinguished  pharmaceutists  of 
Paris.  His  investigations  of  senega  and  his  introduction  into  medical  use 
©f  "  iron  by  hydrogen  "  are  but  a  tythe  of  his  numerous  contributions  to 
the  progress  of  Pharmacy.  M.  T.  Huraut,  and  M.  Baget,  Pharmaciens  of 
Paris,  known  as  writers  and  investigators,  and  Wm.  A.  Hollows,  a  promin- 
ent pharmaceutical  chemist  of  London,  also  should  be  added  to  the  list. 
