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Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1892. 
mists  of  Berlin,  etc.  During  the  recesses  in  his  professional  labors.  Prof. 
Hofmann  visited  most  of  the  European  countries,  Western  Asia,  Northern 
Africa,  and  in  1883  also  North  America.  For  some  of  his  labors  prize  medals 
were  awarded  to  him  in  184 1,  by  the  Paris  Society  of  Pharmacy  ;  in  1854  the 
Copley  medal ;  in  1875,  the  Faraday  medal ;  by  the  French  Academy  of 
Sciences,  in  1864,  the  Jecker  prize  ;  in  the  same  year  the  industrial  gold  medal 
of  Mulhouse  ;  and  in  1867  the  grand  prize  of  the  Paris  Exposition.  The 
honorary  degree  of  DL.  D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge, and  that  of  M.D.  by  the  University  of  Bonn.  He  was  elected  an  hono- 
rary member  of  many  learned  societies  ;  among  the  pharmaceutical  societies 
those  of  Great  Britain  and  Paris,  also  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
had  enrolled  his  name  among  their  honorary  members. 
William  F.  Sinies  died  suddenly  of  apoplexy,  May  21,  in  the  74th  year  of 
his  age.  The  deceased  belonged  to  a  Philadelphia  family,  well-known  as 
druggists  and  apothecaries,  and  learned  the  business  with  his  father  at 
Twenty-second  and  Market  Streets.  In  1864  he  was  in  business  on  Third  above 
Arch  Street,  but  soon  after  removed  to  1102  Market  Street,  where  he  continued 
until  the  buildings  on  that  square  were  taken  down  to  be  replaced  by  the 
present  large  warehouses  ;  his  last  location  was  on  Thirteenth  below  Market 
Street.  For  about  twenty  years  he  was  much  interested  in  camphor  and  the 
refining  of  it,  and  introduced  into  use  ' '  compressed  ' '  camphor,  made  by  sublim- 
ing camphor,  condensing  it  as  a  fine  powder,  and  compressing  this  into  hard 
cakes  by  hydraulic- pressure  ;  the  works  for  carrying  on  this  industry  were 
finally  removed  to  the  lower  part  of  the  city  near  the  Pennsylvania  salt 
works.  The  body  of  the  deceased  was  reduced  to  ashes  at  the  Philadelphia 
Crematorium  on  Washington  Lane.  From  a  newspaper  account,  we  clip  the 
following  : 
"  The  residue  of  his  estate  is  valued  at  about  $200,000,  and  is  bequeathed  to 
the  widow  of  the  deceased  and  his  children.  The  instrument  also  bequeathed 
$5,000  to  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital  to  establish  a  free  bed  and  $5,000  to  the 
College  of  Pharmacy.  Provision  in  the  will  is  also  made  for  the  establishment 
of  an  annual  prize  of  $50  to  be  given  to  a  graduate  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy 
who  shall  prepare  the  best  essay  on  "Camphor."  Directions  are  left  to  the 
executor  to  present  to  each  of  these  institutions  a  portrait  of  the  deceased." 
We  understand  that  the  last  will  of  the  deceased  has  not  yet  been  probated 
and  no  official  notification  of  the  legacy  has  as  yet  reached  the  College. 
Notice  of  the  death  of  the  following  graduates  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  has  been  received  : 
Claude  H.  Arnold,  class  1886,  died  April  7,  last,  near  Gladstone,  Cal.,  of 
lung  hemorrhage,  aged  26^  years.  He  was  born  in  Gorham,  N.  Y.,  after 
graduation  remained  in  Philadelphia,  until  by  failing  health  he  was  compelled 
to  join  his  parents  at  Clifton  Springs,  N.  Y.,  and  in  1890  removed  to  Pasadena, 
Cal.,  subsequently  to  the  ranch  where  he  died. 
Moritz  Kalteyer,  class  1886,  was  found  dead  upon  his  father's  grave,  at  San 
Antonio,  Tex. ,  April  30,  death  having  been  caused  by  neuralgia  of  the  brain,  from 
which  he  had  been  suffering  for  some  time.  He  was  born  in  San  Antonio,  had 
recently  gone  into  partnership  with  his  cousin,  William  Kalteyer,  was  not  mar- 
ried, and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  in  his  27th  year.  An  abstract  of  his 
thesis  on  Sophora  speciosa  was  published  in  the  October  number  of  this 
Journal,  1S86. 
