PIERRE JOSEPH, an eminent chemist, was born at Paris on the 9th of October 1718. He was member of the Academy of Sciences and professor of pharmacy, and was engaged in the Journal de Sciences for articles in medicine and chemistry. With the last of these sciences he was intimately acquainted. He had a share in compiling the Pharmacopoeia Parisiensis, published in 1758, in 4to, and wrote various valuable works on chemistry. His Dictionnaire de Chimie was translated into English by Keir. He died at Paris in 1784.