Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary. Ixxxv 



Every reputable person interested in any department or 

 feature of pharmacy is eligible for membership. 



The annual interest on the Ebert Fund is appropriated as a 

 prize for *' an original investigation of a medicinal substance." 

 The Centennial Fund provides the means ** to aid in the 

 prosecution of original investigations." The by-laws also 

 provide for several general prizes for meritorious work in the 

 sciences and arts which are concerned in pharmacy. 



Very naturally, chemistry, botany and physiology have 

 been the departments of science in which the greater propor- 

 tion of original work has been accomplished by members of 

 the society. It is along these lines that we find the A. Ph. 

 A. touching elbows with your esteemed Academy. Its fifty 

 odd volumes of proceedings, averaging nearly one thousand 

 pages to the book, constitute a useful record of scientific 

 progress in an important department of knowledge. 



I am instructed by the president of the organization I 

 represent to convey the hearty greetings of our members. I 

 take part with zeal in the dominatins: feature of this semi- 

 centennial, which so justly pays tribute to the grand old man 

 whom you honor as the founder, and to his associates in the 

 pioneer scientific work of the Mississippi Valley. One of your 

 veterans to-night is also an ex-president of the A. Ph. A. and 

 one of its patrons : I refer to your treasurer for the past forty- 

 five years, Dr. Enno Sander. 



Mr. Chairman : — Time passes rapidly and when the hand 

 that winds the years away has doubled the age of The St. 

 Louis Academy of Science and your successors celebrate the 

 centennial, may a goodly number of those now active remain 

 to tell by tongue and pen of your golden jubilee ! 



Mr. Thompson : — 



Mr. Chairman, Members of the Academy of Science: — In 

 December, 1897, the professional and amateur botanists in 

 and about St. Louis organized themselves into a society for 

 mutual aid in collecting and distributing botanical knowledge 

 and for co-operation in a fuller study of the problems of plant 

 life in our immediate vicinity. In selecting a name for the 



