402 WILLIAM MANUEL MEW 



orary degree of Doctor of Medicine from Columbian University 

 in consideration of " his general efficiency in medicine and in 

 collateral branches of sciences." 



Dr. Mew was elected a member of the Committee of Revision 

 of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia in May, 1890, and in 1893 he was 

 made its treasurer. His reports on drug assays were especially 

 valuable, as his long experience in analyses and assays of drugs 

 and chemicals for use in the medical department of the United 

 States Army well qualified him for this work. Dr. Mew was a 

 constant student of all subjects relating to physics, chemistry 

 and medicine. He was a member of the American Chemical 

 Society and of other societies, and a charter member of the 

 Cosmos Club. For a number of years prior to 1891 he was 

 Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. 



After an illness of a little more than two months Dr. Mew 

 died September 19, 1902. 



D. S. Lamb. 



