and Sciences. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Chemical Society of Paris and the Chemical Society of Berlin. He was also a member of the Science Alliance. Publications Books Chemistry of the Cobb-Bishop Poisoning. with Charles A. Doremus. New York, 1879 Essentials of Chemistry: Inorganic And Organic, for the Use of Students In Medicine. New York: W. Wood and Co., 1879 General Medical Chemistry for the Use of Practitioners of Medicine. New York: W. Wood & Company, 1881 The Medical Student's Manual of Chemistry. New York: W. Wood & Company, 1883 Laboratory Guide in Urinalysis and Toxicology New York: W. Wood & Company, 1886 Organic analysis: A Manual of the Descriptive and Analytical Chemistry of Certain Carbon Compounds in Common Use. with A. B. Prescott. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1887 Essentials of Chemistry And Toxicology, for the Use of Students In Medicine. 2nd ed. New York: W. Wood & Company, 1888. The Principles of Chemistry. with Dmitry Ivanovich, George Kamensky, and A. J. Greenaway. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891. Manual of Toxicology. 2nd edition. New York: William Wood and Company, 1911. Text-book of Chemistry Inorganic and Organic, with Toxicology; for Students of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Biology, 7th edition, with R. J. E. Scott. New York: Wood and Co., 1919. As editor and author Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine, and Toxicology, volume 1. with T. C. Becker editor. (1894) Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine, and Toxicology, volume 2. with T. C. Becker editor. (1894) Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine, and Toxicology, volume 3. with T. C. Becker editor. (1896) Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine, and Toxicology, volume 4. with T. C. Becker editor. (1896) Journal articles "On Homicide by Morphine," "The Detection of Quinine," "On the Post-Mortem Imbibition of Poisons, and the Chemico-Legal Aspect of Embalming," Researches of the Loomis Laboratory. New York: Douglas Taylor (1890): 38–52. A Text-Book of Chemistry Intended for the Use of Pharmaceutical and Medical Students. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 17, no. 8 (1895): 656–658. Personal life SS Ville du Havre In November 1873, Witthaus sailed to France aboard the steamship SS Ville du Havre. The ship collided with the iron clipper Loch Earn and sunk within twelve minutes, killing more than 250 passengers. Awakened by the crash, he ran to the deck only to realized that there were not enough life boats, noting two boats