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at the Jefferson Medical College, graduating in 1887. He 

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

 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, ^Ir. 

 Lowe was elected Professor of Materia ^ledica 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," tAvo editions of 

 which have been published by and sold for the benefit of 

 the Alumni Association of the Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy.* 



HUGO BILGRAM. 



Hugo Bilgram was born in ]\Iemningen, Bavaria, in 

 1847, and graduated as a mechanical engineer at Augsburg. 

 He immigrated to this country in 1869, being employed by 

 the then celebrated ojDtician, Joseph Zentmayer, between 

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

 struction and use of the microscope. Through ]Mr. A\^m. 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, Maj- 5, 1897, with cut. 



