.A  in.  Jour.  Pharrn. 
Feb..  1892. 
Obituary. 
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OBITUARY. 
Thomas  Hyde  Hills,  a  prominent  pharmacist  of  London,  England,  died  in 
that  city  November  19,  1891,  in  the  seventy-seventh  year  of  his  age.  After 
having  learned  the  apothecary  business  at  Brighton,  he  secured  a  situation  in 
the  store  of  John  Bell,  in  London,  and  after  the  death  of  the  latter,  continued 
the  business  as  the  partner  of  Jacob  Bell  who  died  in  1859.  Mr.  Hills  was  the 
first  Associate,  1841  to  1847,  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain, 
was  elected  a  member  in  1848,  and  subsequently  served  for  many  years  as 
vice-president,  treasurer  and  president.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  British 
Pharmaceutical  Conference,  and  held  the  office  of  vice-president  for  several 
years. 
F.  Passmore  died  in  London,  December  22  last,  after  a  few  days  of  illness. 
For  nearly  twenty-two  years  the  deceased  had  occupied  the  position  of  sub- 
editor of  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal  and  Transactions. 
Professor  Jean  Servais  Stas  died  in  Brussels,  Belgium,  December  13  last. 
He  was  born  at  Louvain,  September  20,  1813,  and  studied  medicine,  but  soon 
turned  his  attention  to  physics  and  chemistry,  working  in  the  laboratory  of  J. 
B.  Dumas  in  Paris.  He  was  afterwards  appointed  professor  of  chemistry  at 
the  Military  Academy  of  Brussels,  and  chemist  to  the  mint,  and  in  1841  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Academy  of  Sciences  in  the  same  city.  His  researches 
into  the  atomic  weight  of  carbon,  published  in  connection  with  Dumas  in  1841, 
were  afterwards  extended  by  him  to  most  other  elements,  and  led  to  greatly 
increased  perfection  in  the  methods  for  the  determination  of  such  values.  The 
criminal  case  Bocarme  in  1850  attracted  universal  attention  in  scientific  circles, 
when,  after  patient  investigations  Stas  proved  nicotine  to  have  been  employed 
for  poisoning.  Of  the  numerous  memoirs  published  by  the  deceased  savant, 
the  following  are  of  especial  interest  to  pharmacists  :  On  phloridzin  (1838); 
chlorinated  compounds  (1841);  acetal  (1846);  nicotine  (1850);  berberine 
(1859);  fatty  acids  (1865),  and  particularly  his  celebrated  method  for  the 
isolation  and  detection  of  alkaloids  (1852),  upon  which  most  of  the  processes 
more  recently  recommended  are  based.  The  deceased  was  attached  to 
many  scientific  bodies  as  an  honorary  or  active  member ;  he  was  an  hon- 
orary member  of  the   Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Emmet  Kannal,  Ph.G.,  class  1871,  died  at  Rensselaer,  Ind.,  July  31,  1891. 
aged  42  years.  He  learned  the  drug  business  in  Rensselaer  and  after  gradua- 
tion, continued  in  the  pharmaceutical  business  in  the  same  town  until  1887  ; 
from  that  time  until  his  death  he  was  in  the  jeweler's  business,  and  was  also 
much  interested  in  farming  and  stock-raising.  He  died  of  hemorrhage  of  the 
bowels,  after  an  illness  of  two  days,  leaving  a  widow  and  three  children. 
Leonidas  H.  Street,  Ph.G.,  class  1875,  died  in  Camden,  N.  J.,  Decbr.  10,  1891, 
of  typhoid  pneumonia.  For  some  years  after  he  graduated  he  was  in  charge 
of  the  drug  store  of  Dr.  B.  Tomlinson,  at  Gloucester,  N.  J.,  and  subsequently 
entered  into  business  in  Camden. 
Harry  B.  Taylor,  Ph.G.,  class  1869,  died  in  Philadelphia,  Decbr.  17,  from 
exhaustion,  the  result  of  blood  poisoning.  He  was  the  son  of  the  late 
Dr.  Win.  T.  Taylor,  in  whose  drug  store  he  was  brought  up.  After  his  father's 
death  he  continued  the  business  for  some  years,  and  studied  medicine,  grad- 
