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PROFESSOR EDWARD PARRISIL 
A letter but just received tells the sad tidings of the 
decease of one of the most prominent and most widely 
known representatives of pharmacy in the United States, 
Professor Parrish, of Philadelphia. Sad tidings, indeed, 
to all who know him, for it is given to few men to win 
their way to the hearts of their associates as he did. 
Bright and cheerful in manner, and full of thoughtful 
kindness, the secret of his good fellowship was not far to 
seek. He held the office of Professor of Pharmacy in 
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, an institution in 
which he had for many years taken an active interest, 
and his contributions to pharmaceutical literature had 
earned for him the honorary membership of many 
kindred bodies at home and abroad. He had until quite 
recently nursed a hope of attending the Pharmaceutical 
Conference, at Brighton, and during the meeting the 
writer received a message from him expressing his inte¬ 
rest in the gathering, and regret that he had been com¬ 
pelled to abandon his proposed visit to this country. He 
was, in fact, just leaving home, on the mission referred 
to in the letter from which an extract is given below. 
The loss of his wife a few months ago was a fearful blow 
to one of his affectionate disposition, but he sought 
strength in work and hope, and had devoted his time and 
energies diming the spring and summer to the details 
and practical working of a new State Pharmacy Act. 
He was a member of the Society of Friends, and, as is 
well known, to that religious body is now committed the 
task of distributing the money grants of the United 
States Government to the native tribes of Indians, and 
the general charge of negotiations with aboriginal races. 
The mission in which he was engaged at the time of his 
death was a labour of love in connection with “ Grant’s 
Quaker-Indian policy” by which so much good has 
already been effected. 
The rest may best be told in the words of a letter from 
his son, Thos. C. Parrish, of Philadelphia 
“He was sent by our Government at Washington, as 
a special commissionei’, to adjust certain difficulties be¬ 
tween the white inhabitants, on our borders, and a very 
warlike tribe, the Iviowas, and was further instructed to 
bring to Washington certain of the more refractory 
chiefs, to bring about a better understanding. 
“ He fully appreciated the great importance of this 
mission of peace and goodwill, and left us thoroughly 
imbued with the spirit of it. He arrived at Lawrence, 
Kansas, in good health and spirits, and then undertook 
the task of penetrating into the wilds of the Indian 
territory to Fort Sill, a Government post. This journey 
of 300 miles was accomplished by means of a stage ride 
without intermission or halt, except to change horses. 
It lasted three days and three nights, and left him 
thoroughly exhausted with diarrhoea and fever, subse¬ 
quently running into malarial typhoid fever. After an 
illness of about two weeks he yielded up his spirit,— 
pure, noble and true. 
“ He was buried at Fort Sill by the officer command¬ 
ing, and his funeral was attended by the entire military 
and civil population of the post.” 
Had time permitted, this notice might have been 
extended and some details added of the life and works of 
Professor Parrish, but his name is too well known 
amongst us to need an exposition of his merits as a 
scientific man and a teacher; and with those who knew 
him, and there are many even here of the number, 
memory rather than measured eulogium brings fittest, 
testimony to his goodness. 
Henry B. Brady. 
fcttsptffita. 
*** No notice can be taken of anonymous eommunica - 
tions. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenti¬ 
cated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily- 
for publication , but as a guarantee of good faith. 
Pharmaceutical Education. 
The following further letters have been received by Pro¬ 
fessor Attfielcl in reference to the paper on Pharmaceutical. 
Education, which he read before the British Pharma¬ 
ceutical Conference at Liverpool:— 
Glasgow, August Yltli, 1872. 
Mv Dear Sir,—Though quite unable to find leisure time to 
do your paper on Pharmaceutical Education that justice that 
its merits and your own well-established character as a teacher 
in our Central Institute so amply merits, I am unwilling, 
through maintaining an absolute silence, to give any one 
ground to suppose that I could feel uninterested in such a 
paper, or in the discussion to which it is proposed to form an 
introduction. 
I trust, therefore that you will excuse the hurried character 
of this note, and I know that you won’t quarrel with any 
angularity that may be noticed in the few remarks my 
limited time allows me to make. 
I at once confess I cannot agree wfitk your scheme anv 
more than you do with Mr. Schacht’s, or than Mr. Schacht 
does with Mr. Reynolds’, or Mr. Mackay with either. 
Whether we think it “ desirable to make pharmaceutical 
education compulsory,” is not, it seems to me, the question 
to ask ; it is so, to all intents and purposes, even now. 
You have a wholesome fear of “ cram,” and think that the 
best mode of overcoming this is to increase the stringency 
of the examinations, or to insist upon a prolonged attendance- 
on certain recognized teachers, or at certain recognized 
schools. 
Now, as a practical man, though quite as anxious as any one 
to see all our future pharmacists as well educated as the most 
highly qualified men in our business, I do not think that the 
time lias come for increasing the stringency of our examina¬ 
tions, nor do I think that our doing so would lessen the 
amount of cramming of which you so justly, I have no doubt, 
complain. The numbers rejected on coming up for their 
examinations, and the very considerable number of our young 
men who are hasting out of our business, on account of the- 
character of these and of their money lost, amply proves this, 
position. Then, as to a prolonged attendance at our educa- 
