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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1902. 
will  find  that  this  was  also  the  complaint  fifty  years  ago.  A  more 
hopeful  view  of  the  progress  in  American  pharmacy  will  be  had  by 
reading  the  earlier  Proceedings  and  comparing  them  with  those  of 
the  past  few  years.  Or,  better  still,  we  may  say  to  those  who 
have  never  attended  the  meetings  of  the  Association — or  who 
have  never  become  enthused  with  its  merits — that  this  next  meet- 
ing in  September  will  be  an  unusual  opportunity  for  securing  an 
historical  knowledge  of  the  Association  as  well  as  its  purposes  and' 
conduct. 
The  President  of  the  Association,  as  well  as  the  Local  Secretary,, 
are  active  in  their  preparations  for  the  meeting.  The  Local  Secre- 
tary, Wm.  L.  Cliffe,  has  acted  in  accordance  with  a  resolution 
adopted  at  the  St.  Louis  meeting,  September  21,  1901,  and  named 
a  committee  on  arrangements  for  the  meeting  of  1902.  The  fol- 
lowing are  the  members:  Howard  B.  French,  Harry  L.  Stiles, 
Joseph  P.  Remington,  Clement  B.  Lowe,  Mahlon  N.  Kline,  Henry 
K.  Mulford,  Miers  Busch,  Richard  V.  Mattison,  Walter  A.  Rumsey, 
Henry  C.  Blair,  3d;  Geo.  D.  Rosengarten,  Wm.  A.  Sailer,  Walter 
V.  Smith,  Harvey  H.  Hentzer,  D.  E.  Bransome,  Jacob  M.  Baer.  Mr. 
Cliffe  is  chairman  of  the  committee. 
THE  MEMORIAL   TO  DR.  CHARLES  RICE. 
We  have  already  referred  in  this  Journal  (pp.  44  and  148)  to  the 
movement  inaugurated  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Committee  of 
Revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  for  the  purpose  of 
erecting  a  monument  over  the  grave  of  the  late  Dr.  Charles  Rice 
and  of  preparing  a  memorial  volume  commemorating  his  life  and 
work.  The  committee  cannot  proceed  in  either  one  of  these  direc- 
tions until  sufficient  funds  have  been  raised. 
While  the  Committee  of  Revision  have  taken  the  initiative  in 
this  movement,  it  is  but  natural  to  suppose,  when  we  contemplate 
the  life  of  him  who  with  rare  genius  and  unselfishness  contributed 
so  much  to  the  success  of  the  U.S. P.  for  three  revisions  that  others 
should  wish  to  join  in  the  work  of  honoring  his  name.  The  phar- 
macists of  the  United  States  are  therefore  not  only  given  an  oppor- 
tunity to  co-operate  in  this  movement  but  they  are  especially 
invited  to  do  so.  A  number  of  drug  journals  have  taken  up  the 
matter  and  have  raised  a  considerable  sum  of  money.  The  Com- 
mittee on  Rice  Memorial  "  invite  all  to  contribute  to  this  fund." 
