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Pharmaceutical Department of Columbia University. 



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C. P. WIMMER, Phar.D., A.M., Editor 



Vol. XX. FEBRUARY, 1913. No. 2. 



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OUR LOSS. 



Within the short period of one month, the grim messenger, death, 

 has taken from us two of our officers. Ewen Mclntyre, our Honorary 

 President, and Walter Regnault, our Vice-President, were laid to 

 their last rest. What striking evidence these two deaths have brought 

 home to us of the uncertainty of human life. On the one hand, 

 a man well along in years, after a well spent life enjoying the fruits 

 of his labors, widely known, beloved and respected, paid his tribute 

 to nature; on tlie other hand, a youth, just starting out in life, begin- 

 ning to make a name for himself, respected for an extraordinary 

 brilliant mind, beloved for his gentlemanly and retiring manners, 

 5vas felled by the iron hand of death without a moment's warning. 

 Reflecting upon the latter death, one might easily be tempted to say: 

 What is the use of laboring, of working, of aspiring and of striving, 

 for to-morrow I may be dead? P>anish the selfish thought; let us 

 remember Ewen Mclntyre's life, let us look forward to a long career 

 of usefulness, so that, in case poor Walter Regnault's fate be spared 

 to us, we may look back upon a life of honorable work. May Ewen 

 Mclntyre and Walter Regnault rest in peace. 



