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Obituary. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1      March.  1892. 
ences  to  the  literature  and  critical  examination  of  the  figures  published  by 
different  authors  ;  the  history,  habitat,  admixtures  and  substitutions,  chemical 
constituents  and  medical  properties  are  described,  with  frequent  references  to 
the  literature  on  these  subjects.  It  seems  somewhat  strange  that  the  author 
speaks  of  A.  reticulata  as  ''lafausse  serpentaire;'"  but  it  is  evident  from  the 
text  that  this  term  is  used  solely  in  distinction  to  the  species  yielding  the  drug 
originally  introduced  ;  for  the  fact  is  noted  that,  like  the  latter,  it  is  officinal  in 
the  United  States  ;  also  that  it  is  almost  exclusively  met  with  in  commerce, 
and  that  it  is  the  only  kind  furnished  by  the  wholesale  druggists  of  France, 
while  in  that  country  the  root  of  A.  Serpentaria  is  met  with  only  among  the 
antiquated  stock  of  old  pharmacies,  where  it  happens  to  be  rarely  used. 
The  critical  care  bestowed  upon  this  monograph,  which  is  evidenced  upon 
every  page,  shows  that  with  the  author,  who  is  director  of  the  works  on  natural 
history  in  the  ecole  superieure  de  pharmacie  of  Montpellier,  it  was  a  labor  of 
love  ;  and  thus  a  very  valuable  w~ork  for  the  student  of  materia  medica  in  gen- 
eral, and  of  pharmacognosy  in  special,  has  been  produced.  * 
OBITUARY. 
Wilhelm  Dankzvortt  died  in  Magdeburg,  Germany,  January  io,  1892,  aged 
70  years.  He  was  born  and  educated  in  that  city,  and  after  serving  there  as 
apprentice  and  clerk,  continued  his  studies  at  the  University  of  Halle,  where 
he  passed  the  state's  examination  in  1S4S.  In  1S52  he  became  proprietor  of  a 
pharmacy  in  Magdeburg,  and  retired  from  active  business  pursuits  in  1S90.  In 
1S63  he  was  elected  one  of  the  directors  of  the  North  German  Apothecaries 
Society,  and  became  its  presiding  officer  in  1867  until  1872,  when  the  union 
with  the  South  German  Association  was  effected.  He  took  a  very  active  part 
in  the  internal  affairs  of  these  Societies,  both  at  the  meetings  and  through 
communications  to  pharmaceutical  papers  ;  also  in  the  elaboration  of  the 
German  pharmacopoeia,  more  particularly  of  its  second  edition  which  appeared 
in  1S67.  Other  publications  by  the  deceased  dealt  with  the  examination  of 
flour,  milk  and  certain  paints,  and  the  forensic  detection  of  phosphorus.  At  the 
third  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress,  held  at  Vienna  in  1869,  Mr. 
Dankwortt  was  elected  president.  He  was  also  connected  with  various  pharma- 
ceutical and  other  scientific  bodies,  as  honorary  or  corresponding  member; 
he  was  an  honorary  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Frank  Frisby,  Pk.G.,  died  at  Bismarck,  X.  Dak.,  January  iSth,  in  his 
thirty-third  year,  of  paresis.  He  learned  the  drug  business  at  Atchison,  Kan., 
studied  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  then  came  to  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
graduating  in  1SS0,  his  thesis  on  Fucus  vesiculosus  being  published  in  the  same 
vear  in  the  Amer.  Jour,  of  Pharmacy,  p.  434.  In  1SS3  he  entered  into  busi- 
ness in  Bismarck.  When  the  Dakota  pharmacy  law  was  passed  in  1SS7,  he  was 
■  appointed  on  the  North  Dakota  Board  and  elected  secretary.  He  also  took 
much  interest  in  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  contributed  several 
papers  to  its  proceedings.    His  widow  and  a  little  daughter  survive  him. 
Charles  P.  Pengra,  M.D.,  died  in  Boston,  January  30th.  He  held  the 
-position  of  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Botany  in  the  Massachusetts 
College  of  Pharmacy. 
