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Albert Benjamin Prescott, 



American Pharmaceutical Association 

 in 1900, and his contributions to sci- 

 ence were largely concerned with the 

 chemistry of drugs, on which he wrote 

 several important books and a large 

 number of special contributions, inclu- 

 ding several articles in The Popular 

 Science Monthly. He was also the 



author of excellent text-books on chem- 

 istry including ' Qualitative Chemical 

 Analysis,' 1874; ' Outlines of Proximate 

 Organic Analysis,' 1875; 'First Book 

 of Qualitative Chemistry,' 1879, and 

 • Manual of Organic Analysis,' 1888. 



Professor Prescott's death occurred 

 on February 25, when he was in his 



