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NECROLOGY". 
NECROLOGY. 
The death of Henry Troth, Esq., Vice President of the 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, with the resolutions 
elicited by that melancholy event, have already been pre- 
sented to the public through the medium of the organ of the 
Institution, the Journal. 
Again have we to lament the departure of one whose name 
is closely connected with the progress of the College; we 
allude to Dr. William R. Fisher, late Professor of Chemis- 
try. Dr. Fisher was one of the early graduates of Pharmacy, 
having received his education in Philadelphia, of which he 
was a native. He shortly, however, removed to Baltimore, 
in which place the greater portion of his subsequent career 
was spent. Deeply engaged as he became in the literary 
and scientific enterprises of the community of his adoption, 
his feelings and affections were constantly directed to the seat 
of his Alma Mater, in whose welfare and advancement he had 
the liveliest interest, as evinced by the contributions to her 
periodical, of which his ready pen was prolific. Upon his 
return to Philadelphia, as a distinguished alumnus of the Col- 
lege, he was thought worthy of the appointment to the va- 
cant Chair of Chemistry, to which he was elected. This po- 
sition he held for one term only, when his views being di- 
rected to a higher and holier calling he resigned the situation, 
to engage in preparation for the ministry. But disease had 
set its mark upon him, and in the all-wise Providence of God 
it was decreed that his race was run. The last important 
work in which he was engaged, connected with the interests 
of Pharmacy, was the revision of the Pharmacopoeia, as a 
member of the Committee of Revision appointed by the Col- 
lege of Pharmacy, and in this he afforded essential service. 
The mind of Dr. Fisher was rapid, at the same time accurate; 
