Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  L'harm 
Sept.,  1892. 
gives  also  the  botanical  description  of  a  new  species  of  agave,  the  origin  o_ 
which  has  not  yet  been  determined  ;  and  that  the  last  one  gives  an  account  of 
the  apothecia  of  a  lichen,  which,  though  frequently  collected  in  different  parts 
of  the  globe,  has  always  been  regarded  as  being  sterile. 
On  Citronellone ;  an  unsaturated  fatty  aldehyde.    By  Edward  Kremers. 
Menthene.    By  F.  A.  Sieker  and  E.  Kremers. 
Two  reprints  from  Arner.  Chemical  Journal,  xiv,  Nos.  3  and  4. 
The  Limonene  Group  of  Terpenes.    By  Edward  Kremers. 
This  essay,  covering  51  pages,  was  read  before  the  Wisconsin  Academy  of 
Sciences,  Arts  and  Letters,  December  30th,  last,  and  is  reprinted  from  volume 
viii  of  its  Transactions. 
OBITUARY. 
Professor  Valerian  Ossipowitch  Podwissotzky  died  at  Kasan,  Russia,  June 
28,  aged  seventy  years.  He  was  born  in  1822  and  studied  law,  passing  his 
examinations  in  1842,  after  which  he  was  called  to  various  state  and  municipal 
offices.  At  the  age  of  fifty,  he  matriculated  at  the  University  of  Dorpat  as  a 
medical  student,  and  graduated  as  doctor  of  medicine  in  1878,  his  inaugural 
dissertation  being  "anatomical  researches  of  the  tongue  glands  of  man  and 
mammals."  While  in  Dorpat  he  investigated  emetine  and  the  constituents  of 
ergot,  of  Lippia  mexicana  and  of  resin  of  podophyllum,  researches  which, 
gained  for  him  a  world-wide  reputation.  In  1885,  he  was  appointed  professor 
of  pharmacognosy  and  of  pharmacy  to  the  University  of  Kasan  where,  in  1886 
he  published  a  manual  of  pharmacognosy  in  the  Russian  language.  The 
deceased  was  a  corresponding  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy. 
The  following  graduates  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  are 
deceased  : 
James  S.  Bell,  class  1869,  died  in  Peoria,  111.,  May  25,  1892,  from  disease  of 
the  kidneys.  He  was  born  and  educated  at  Bolton,  Peel  Co.,  Ontario,  and 
after  serving  an  apprenticeship  at  Albion,  came  to  Philadelphia,  and  clerked 
with  the  late  Professor  Edward  Parrish.  After  graduating,  he  went  to  Peoria, 
and  started  in  business  in  1874,  the  title  of  the  firm  being  Bell  &  Miller  until 
1877,  since  which  time  he  carried  on  the  business  until  his  death.  He  leaves 
a  widow  and  one  daughter,  and  is  survived  by  his  father  and  a  sister. 
William  E.  Knight,  class  1838,  died  in  Philadelphia,  June  9,  of  uraemia,  at 
the  age  of  73  years.  He  was  a  native  of  England,  and  came  to  this  country 
with  his  parents  when  5  years  of  age.  For  some  years  he  had  been  clerking 
for  Francis  Bond,  at  the  corner  of  Tenth  and  Locust  Streets,  and  succeeded  to 
the  business  more  than  forty  years  ago.  For  years  he  had  been  one  of  the 
"characters"  of  the  city,  his  bent  form  and  smiling  face  and  his  dusty  little 
store,  which  was  somewhat  of  an  old  curiosity  shop,  being  well  known  to 
the  residents  of  his  neighborhood,  particularly  to  the  poor  and  destitute  whom 
he  freely  befriended,  and  of  whom  many  attended  the  funeral  services. 
Although  he  gave  away  money  and  medicines  with  a  free  hand,  Mr.  Knight 
was  successful  in  business  and  died  rich.    He  was  never  married. 
