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Dr. R. A. Harper announced the death of Professor E. Stras- 
burger. 
А motion was carried instructing the officers of the club to 
nominate honorary members at the first fall meeting. On 
motion of Dr. Britton, Dr. Harper was invited to act with the 
committee. 
Mr. B. O. Dodge referred to the recent death of Mr. Gustav L. 
Ramsperger, one of the oldest members of the club, and sug- 
gested that some action be taken in regard to the matter. 
On motion of Mrs. Britton the chairman was requested to 
appoint a committee, with power, to prepare a suitable memoran- 
dum for incorporation in the minutes of the meeting, and the 
secretary was instructed to transmit a copy of the same to the 
family of the deceased. 
The chairman appointed Dr. Hollick, Dr. Britton, and Dr. 
Rusby as such committee and they subsequently prepared the 
following memorandum: 
The Torrey Botanical Club records with sincere sorrow the 
recent death, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, of Gustav 
Ludwig Ramsperger, who was elected to active membership in 
the Club on February 9, 1886. 
Mr. Ramsperger was born in Germany, December 13, 1824; 
studied pharmacy as apprentice and assistant, and passed his 
final examination in 1850. In 1851 he came to America and 
opened a small drug store in Oliver Street. After a successful 
business career of sixteen years he acquired an interest in the 
Faber-Balluff pharmacy, on the corner of 6th Avenue and 38th 
Street, in which location he was equally successful and in a few 
years concluded to retire and devote himself to scientific work. 
He sold out his interest in the pharmacy, but shortly afterwards 
decided that he was too young to retire from active business and 
acquired a pharmacy in Brooklyn, at the corner of F ulton and 
Cumberland Streets, where he remained until he finally retired, 
on his sixtieth birthday. 
Mr. Ramsperger held membership in the New York State 
Pharmaceutical Association, of which he was a charter member, 
and in the American Pharmaceutical Association, and was a 
