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at the Jefferson Medical College, graduating in 1887. He 

 was a member of the Executive Board of the Alumni Asso- 

 ciation of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy for over 

 ten years, President of the Association for the college year 

 1888-89, was Chairman of the Committee on Social Meet- 

 ings for five years, and Treasurer of the Bucknell Alumni 

 Society of this city. On the death of Professor Bastin, Mr. 

 Lowe was elected Professor of Materia Medica in the 

 Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 



He is a member of the American and of the Penn- 

 sylvania Pharmaceutical Associations, and is Chairman of 

 the State Association's Committee on Adulterations. Among 

 his literary work should be mentioned a book entitled, 

 '' Syllabus of the Botanical Natural Orders," two editions of 

 which have been published by and sold for the benefit of 

 the Alumni Association of the Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy.* 



HUGO BILQRAM. 



Hugo Bilgram was born in Memningen, Bavaria, in 

 1847, and graduated as a mechanical engineer at Augsburg. 

 He immigrated to this country in 1869, being employed by 

 the then celebrated optician, Joseph Zentmayer, between 

 1870-1874, where he familiarized himself with the con- 

 struction and use of the microscope. Through Mr. Wm. C. 

 Stevenson, Jr., he became interested, as an amateur, in 

 mycology, especially the Myxomycetes. His work in this 

 line, however, has been confined to making a private collec- 

 tion, and supplying Mr. J. B. Ellis, of Newfield, New Jersey, 

 with a number of species for his exsiccata of American 

 Fungi. His collection of slime moulds, neatly arranged in 

 boxes, is not surpassed by any other collection in the city. 



* Philadelphia Ledger, May 5, 1897, with cut. 



