44  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.     { A j;n^°aury  iJ"m" 
toilet  preparations  or  by  itself  was  passed.  He  was  also  largely  in- 
strumental in  persuading  the  Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue 
to  allow  manufacturing  druggists  a  free  use  of  fortified  sweet 
wines  in  compounding  their  preparations. 
He  was  a  staunch  advocate  of  the  Pure  Food  and  Drugs  Act 
and  devoted  much  effort  towards  bringing  about  uniformity  of 
State  law  to  conform  with  it. 
Mr.  Kline  always  took  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the 
city  of  Philadelphia  and  was  foremost  in  many  of  the  municipal 
reform  matters.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Trade 
League  of  Philadelphia,  which  afterward  became  the  Philadelphia 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  he  likewise  served  on  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  National  Chamber  of  Commerce  instituted  by 
Secretary  Straus. 
Always  alive  to  the  interest  of  his  retail  friends  of  the  drug 
trade,  Mr.  Kline  was  an  active  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  Phar- 
maceutical Association  and  had  he  lived  would  have  represented 
that  organization  at  the  Pharmacopceial  Convention  to  be  held 
next  May. 
Mr.  Kline  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Church  of  the  Saviour 
from  which  he  was  buried  on  November  30.  The  funeral  was 
largely  attended  and  among  those  present  besides  the  officers, 
members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  faculty  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy,  was  a  substantial  delegation  from  the  National 
Wholesale  Druggists'  Association  and  various  pharmaceutical  or- 
ganizations with  which  he  was  identified.  In  connection  with  his 
church  affiliations  Mr.  Kline  was  the  Philadelphia  leader  of  the 
Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew. 
Mr.  Kline  is  survived  by  a  widow,  two  daughters,  Mrs.  Harry 
F.  Valentine  and  Mrs.  T.  Carrick  Jordan,  and  one  son,  Clarence 
M.  Kline. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
A  special  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  was  held  December  10  to  take  action  on  the  death  of 
Mahlon  N.  Kline,  First  Vice-President  and  Chairman  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees. 
The  President  read  the  call  for  the  meeting  which  had  been 
signed  by  seventeen  members  of  the  College  and  of  the  Board  of 
