154 Dinner to Henry Hurd Rusby [Jan. 



introducing our dear friend and guest of the evening, Dr. H. H. 

 Rusby, to its members and the members of the College. Dr. Rusby, 

 during 1885 and 1886, had been engaged in an exploring and botan- 

 izing expedition which led him from the western coast of South 

 America across the Andes and from the sources of the great river 

 Amazon to the Atlantic Ocean. In February, 1888, he was intro- 

 duced to an audience composed of members of this Association, 

 members of the College and to other scientific societies, by Chas. 

 F. Heebner, then president of this Alumni Association, when Dr. 

 Rusby gave a graphic account of his journey with its scientific 

 results. Dr. Rusby's lecture created a profound impression at that 

 time and I believe resulted in his appointment to the Chair of 

 Materia Medica and Botany in the following year. 



" With the advent of Dr. Rusby as Professor in our College 

 came his 'object lesson' methods of teaching his subjects, which 

 have been so successful as to compel a complete revolution from 

 former methods of teaching materia medica, not only in our own 

 Institution, but in all other Schools of Pharmacy that consider 

 themselves up-to-date. 



"The year 1914 will mark the 25th year of Dr. Rusby's con- 

 nection with our Institution. He is now our senior Professor in 

 active service, and Dean. During all these years he has given his 

 best energies and his best thought to his work in the College, and 

 has been a most important factor in placing and maintaining the 

 College of Pharmacy of the City of New York in the proud Posi- 

 tion it holds to-day among the schools of pharmacy of the United 

 States and of the world. 



" As the first lecture of Dr. Rusby in our College was delivered 

 upon the invitation of the Alumni Association, it seems eminently 

 proper that this Association should be the first to congratulate him 

 upon the near completion of his twenty-five years of important Serv- 

 ice in the College. Mr. Dean, you are here to-night as our hon- 

 ored guest, and it is my great privilege on behalf of the Alumni 

 Association to present you with this silver set, tendered as an appre- 

 ciation of your long, honorable and valued service to our beloved 

 alma mater. During this time you have done your duty as you saw 

 it, without fear or favor, and have earned the friendship and high 

 esteem of all our members." 



