Am.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
L    April,  1897. 
Hermann  Hager. 
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and  a  wreath  of  flowers  had  been  sent  by  the  President  of  the  Ger- 
man Apothecaries'  Association.  Although  less  than  two  hours  by 
rail  from  the  German  capital,  not  one  representative  pharmacist,  no 
delegate  from  any  of  the  national  or  metropolitan  pharmaceutical 
societies,  nor  from  the  journal  founded  by  Dr.  Hager  in  1859,  and 
graced  by  his  famous  name  ever  since,  attended  his  funeral. 
What  a  representative  gathering  would  the  funeral  of  such  a  man 
of  national,  nay,  of  world-wide  reputation,  have  drawn  together  any- 
where in  the  United  States !  The  foremost  representative  men  of 
American  pharmacy  hastened  to  Philadelphia  to  pay  a  last  respect 
to  Procter  at  his  funeral  in  February,  1874,  and  to  Maisch  in  Sep- 
tember, 1893.  No  such  tender  sense  of  gratitude  and  veneration 
seems  to  pulsate  in  the  hearts  and  among  the  ranks  of  the  repre- 
sentative men  and  members  of  pharmaceutical  associations  on  this 
side  of  the  Atlantic.  A  profession  as  well  as  a  country  honor  them- 
selves by  honoring  the  life  work  and  the  memory  of  their  great  men 
during  their  lifetime  as  well  as  at  their  demise,  even  if  the  saying 
should  apply :  "  a  man  lives  by  his  excellencies  and  not  by  his 
faults."  It  is  the  more  gratifying  that  the  Continental  pharmaceuti- 
cal press  has  promptly  and  nobly  offset  this  apparent  show  of  a 
want  of  veneration  for  the  departed  master  of  German  pharmacy  by 
unanimous  and  warm-hearted  obituaries. 
