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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[May 17, 1873. 
dared the first President of Swarthmore College, and 
.continued in office during nearly two years. 
On the several occasions when legislative encroachment 
on the best interests of pharmacy needed resistance, or 
when legislative aid and protection were to be sought, 
Professor Parrish took an active and efficient part; and 
on the passage of the Pharmacy Act of 1872 he was one 
of the five commissioners appointed by the Mayor of Phil¬ 
adelphia to carry the law into effect. The labour inci¬ 
dent to the organization of the Board, and the subsequent 
service required in the examination of numerous assistants 
seeking registration under this law, protracted till late in 
J uly, doubtless had some influence in undermining his 
health, not yet recovered from the severe shock it had re¬ 
ceived by the sudden death of his wife, and probably con¬ 
tributed to his approaching end. 
In the following month (August, 1872) the Government 
of the United States, desiring to settle some difficulties 
with certain Indian tribes, in the direction of peace, ap¬ 
pointed Professor Parrish and Captain Alvord as commis¬ 
sioners. In entering upon this last act of his life he was 
advised by his family, who believed his health would be 
benefited by the journey. But the unforeseen exposure 
incident to a long and rough stage ride through the wil¬ 
derness proving too heavy a tax on his impaired vitality, 
and before he could fully accomplish his mission of peace, 
he fell a victim to the climate, in the 51st year of his age. 
Edward Parrish possessed social qualities of a high 
order : his conversational powers were good, his informa¬ 
tion on ordinary subjects general, his interest in modem 
progressive ideas considerable, and he was never happier 
than when his friends were around him in the family 
circle interchanging ideas. 
His home instincts were strong : his wife and children 
ever occupied a prominent place in his plans and arrange¬ 
ments ; for them no sacrifice was too great, no pleasure 
too rich, no necessity too expensive ; and whether fortune 
smiled on him or frowned, he was the same kind and 
liberal husband and father, the same sympathetic brother 
and friend. There was nothing mean or contracted in his 
nature, and in business his competition was unmarked by 
bitterness or personality. 
Professor Parrish was by nature ambitious of distinction 
among his fellows, yet his yearnings after power or place 
were influenced by a spirit at once mild, benevolent, and 
lovable. His intellect, which was clear and forcible, he 
had cultivated by reading and conversation. Had it 
been steadily concentrated in the fine of his profession, it 
would have led him to honours far higher than those to 
which he attained ; but by directing his attention to too 
many objects, his efforts lost in power and thoroughness 
what they gained in variety and popularity. 
Although originality was not a prominent trait among 
his mental characteristics, his mind was active and ready; 
he was quick to catch ideas when presented, manifested 
much excellence of judgment in adapting them to his pur¬ 
poses, and it was generally with graceful acknowledgments 
that he rendered tribute to others when occasion required. 
It was in his manner of grouping and classifying facts, 
and of lucidly presenting subjects to his readers, that his 
personality was most deeply impressed on his literary 
labours in pharmacy. 
Nature had endowed him with a gift of speech well 
adapted to the platform, and some of his ablest efforts 
have been introductory and valedictory addresses. As a 
teacher of pharmacy in the lecture-room, he loved to array 
the leading facts in generic groupings on the blackboard, 
using the more prominent individual substances for special 
comment on the table, often bringing in anecdote to enliven 
his subject. Less happy as a manipulator than as a 
speaker, Professor Parrish trusted more to his ability to 
convey his meaning by fig-ures of speech than to annoying 
and often troublesome demonstrations by practical experi¬ 
ments ; nevertheless he was conscious of the important 
and valuable aid derived from object-teaching and the 
exhibition of actual processes ; and in his last course intro¬ 
duced several important improvement.* ^ — o+.hnds of 
illustration. 
As a business man, his mind was too much given to 
outside matters to push his interests by close personal 
attention, and they not unfrequently suffered from too 
much devotion to other objects and interests wholly dis¬ 
connected with his own personal advantage. 
Professor Parrish was known among pharmaceutists 
abroad, but more especially in England, chiefly through his 
writings, which are held in much esteem, and the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society of Great Britain and the British Phar¬ 
maceutical Conference have each shown their appreciation 
of him by honorary memberships; whilst at home, besides 
being in membership with various societies, his name is 
as a household word among the members of the pharma¬ 
ceutical and medical professions. 
Professor Parrish leaves four sons and a daughter to keep 
green his remembrance and to imitate his virtues. 
A letter was read from Mr. Charles Bullock, resigning 
the office of Secretary, which he had held for many years. 
The following were elected as officers for the ensuing 
year:— 
President, Dillwyn Parrish. ls< Vice-President, William 
Procter, jun. 2nd Vice-President, Robert Shoemaker. 
Treasurer, Samuel S. Bunting. Recording Secretary, 
William J. Jenks. Corresponding Secretary, Alfred B. 
Taylor. Publishiny Committee, Thomas S. Wiegand, 
John M. Maisch, William Procter, jun., James T. Shinn, 
Charles Bullock. Editor , John M. Maisch. 
fiirlMtmhrjj unit fhto ftomtotp. 
HOUSE OF COMMONS. 
Shop Hours’ Regulation Bill. 
This Bill, which has been introduced by Sir John Lub¬ 
bock, and has on the back the names also of Mr. Thomas 
Hughes, Mr. Morley, and Mr. Mundella, contains some 
provisions of great importance as affecting pharmacists. 
It proposes to extend the provisions of the Workshops 
Acts, 1867 to 1871, with certain amendments, to shops 
kept open for the sale of goods, in the same manner as if 
such shop were a workshop. 
By clause 4 it proposes that no child, young person, or 
woman shall be employed in any workshop or shop on 
Good Friday or Christmas Day ; and that there shall be 
allowed to every child, young person, and woman em¬ 
ployed in a workshop or shop not less than four whole 
holidays or eight half-holidays in every year (exclusive of 
Good Friday and Christmas Day). 
The term “ young person ” is for all the purposes of the 
said Act to be deemed to include every apprentice, whether 
male or female, who has attained the age of thirteen years 
and has not attained the age of twenty-one years. 
The term “ employed ” is defined to mean occupied 
under a master or parent, whether for wages or not for 
wages, in any manual labour exercised in or incidentally 
to the sale of any article in a shop ; and the term “shop” 
is to include any building, room, warehouse, or premises 
in which any article is sold or exposed or offered for sale, 
and any buildings or premises, whether open or enclosed, 
which adjoin a shop or communicate therewith otherwise 
than by a public highway or thoroughfare, and to or over 
which the occupier of the shop, or the person by whom any 
child, young person, or woman employed in the shop is 
employed, has a right of access or control. 
The Workshop Acts, 1867 to 1871, are, in their applica¬ 
tion to shops as defined in this Act, to be subject to the 
following modifications :—(1) On some week-day in every 
week every shop to which this Act applies shall be closed 
during the whole of said day after the hour of two in the 
afternoon ; and during the time when a shop is closed in 
accordance with this provision no child, young person, or 
woman shall be employed therein. If a shop has not been 
