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Notes  and  News. 
/Am.  Jour  Pharni. 
1       April,  1902. 
and  left  the  globe  where  she  had  put  it,  and  upon  her  return  from  dinner  she 
saw  the  water  was  at  the  boiling  point  and  the  fish  all  dead."  All  agreed  that 
the  gentle  offices  of  such  a  nurse  could  easily  be  dispensed  with. 
A  Portrait  of  Prof.  Prescott.— At  the  supper  and  reunion  that  was  held  at 
the  St.  Louis  meeting  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  of  the  Alumni  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan, a  plan  was  formulated  to  procure  a  life-size  oil  portrait  of  Dr.  A.  B.  Pres- 
cott  and  present  it  to  the  university.  A  committee  was  appointed  consisting  of 
Dr.  A.  B.  Lyons,  Chairman;  A.  B.  Stevens,  Treasurer,  J.  W.  T.  Knox,  Secretary, 
and  F.  W.  R.  Perry  and  A.  S.  Parker,  who  have  successfully  arranged  for  this 
undertaking.  The  portrait  has  been  made  by  Percy  JLves,  one  of  the  best 
known  of  portrait  artists,  and  is  to  be  presented  to  the  university  during  com- 
mencement week,  the  exact  date  not  yet  being  determined.  It  is  desired  also 
to  have  a  general  reunion  and  banquet  for  the  alumni  on  that  occasion,  and  it 
is  hoped  that  every  alumnus  of  the  pharmacy  school  will  make  a  strong  effort 
to  be  present.  Some  distinguished  scientist  will  be  invited  to  deliver  the  prin- 
cipal address  of  the  occasion,  and  there  will  be  a  number  of  shorter  addresses 
by  alumni  and  others. 
A  Banquet  to  Enno  Sander. — On  the  occasion  of  his  eightieth  birthday 
the  pharmaceutical  friends  of  Dr.  Sander  tendered  him  a  banquet  in  St.  Louis. 
Mr.  Albert  E.  Ebert,  of  Chicago,  acted  as  toastmaster,  and  toasts  were 
responded  to  by  various  members  of  the  Faculty  and  alumni  of  the  St.  Louis 
College  of  Pharmacy,  of  which  he  is  an  ex-president,  one  of  the  founders,  and 
was  at  one  time  a  member  of  the  Faculty.  According  to  the  American  Drug- 
gist, Dr.  Sander  was  born  in  Trinum,  Anhalt,  Germany.  He  took  his  Ph.D. 
degree  in  chemistry  at  Halle,  in  1847,  participated  in  the  revolution  of  1848,  was 
captured  and  imprisoned,  but  subsequently  pardoned.  Coming  to  the  LTnited 
States  in  1850,  he  went  to  St.  Louis  in  1852,  where  he  first  taught  school,  and 
then  engaged  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy.  In  1868  he  began  the  manufacture 
of  chemicals,  and  later  took  up  artificial  mineral  waters,  in  which  he  has  been 
very  successful.  In  1871  he  was  elected  president  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  and  for  forty  years  consecutively  has  been  treasurer  of 
the  St.  Louis  Academy  of  Sciences. 
American  Chemists  Honored. — Prof.  Wolcott  Gibbs,  of  Harvard,  America's 
foremost  chemist,  was  honored  on  February  22d  by  having  conferred  on  him 
by  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  the  Doctorate  of  Laws  ;  Prof.  Ira  Remsen 
was  installed  as  President  of  Johns  Hopkins  University  at  the  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  the  founding  of  that  institution;  the  new  Health  Board  of  New 
York  City  made  an  important  departure  from  precedent  by  creating  a  medical 
advisory  board  of  twelve  prominent  physicians  (who  serve  without  pay),  with 
Prof  Charles  F.  Chandler,  of  Columbia  University,  at  the  head,  with  the  title 
of  Consulting  Sanitarian. 
The  American  EeecTro-Chemicai,  Society,  which  has  just  been  organ- 
ized with  nearly  300  members,  will  hold  its  first  meeting  in  Philadelphia  from 
April  3d-5th. 
The  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association  will  hold  its  annual 
meeting  at  Buena  Vista  Spring  Hotel,  June  24th,  instead  of  June  17th,  as  pre- 
viously announced. 
