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ship,  has  offered  a  prize  of  a  $5  gold-piece  to  the  druggist  giving 
the  best  ten  reasons  why  a  druggist  should  be  a  member  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
The  various  other  committees  of  the  association  are  hard  at  work 
in  their  endeavors  to  make  the  Jubilee  Meeting  one  of  unusual  interest 
and  profit  to  all  those  interested  in  the  professional  as  well  as  com- 
mercial welfare  of  pharmacy.  In  our  next  issue  we  hope  to  give 
some  details  of  the  plans  that  are  being  arranged.  Suffice  it  for 
the  present  to  say  that  all  those  attending  the  meeting  will  be 
given  a  most  cordial  reception,  and  that  arrangements  are  being 
made  for  the  most  successful  convention  that  the  association  has 
ever  held. 
PERSONAL  NOTES. 
Prof.  S.  P.  SadTXER  had  conferred  upon  him,  at  the  commencement  of 
Gettysburg  College,  on  June  18th,  the  degree  of  LL  D.  honoris  causa.  He 
received  the  degree  of  A.B.  from  this  College  in  1867,  and  in  1870  he  received 
B.S.  from  Harvard  University,  and  in  1871  Ph.D.  from  Gottingen  University. 
Dr.  H.  M.  Gordin,  well  known  for  his  researches  in  pharmaceutical  assay- 
ing, has  been  appointed  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of 
Northwestern  University.  He  was  born  in  St.  Petersburg,  Russia,  in  ]86o. 
He  graduated  from  the  University  of  Moscow  in  1884,  and  then  emigrated  to 
the  United  States,  establishing  himself  in  San  Francisco  as  a  practising  phar- 
macist, and  after  a  few  years  of  successful  business  returned  to  Europe,  where 
he  studied  chemistry  at  Paris,  Geneva,  Munich  and  Berne.  He  graduated  with 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  at  the  University  of  Berne.  Switzerland,  in 
1897. 
Dr.  E.  R.  Kennedy  has  been  appointed  Instructor  in  Materia  Medica  at  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Zanesville  (Ohio) 
High  School,  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  of  Jefferson  Medi- 
cal College. 
David  C.  Ecci.ES,  the  newly  appointed  Instructor  in  Chemistry  of  the 
School  of  Pharmacy  of  Northwestern  University,  is  the  only  sou  of  Dr.  R.  G. 
Eccles,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Brooklyn  High  School 
and  Columbia  University;  from  the  latter  he  has  received  the  degrees  B.S. 
(in  chemistry)  and  A.M. 
Francis  B.  Hays,  associate  editor  of  the  Druggists  Circular  for  eleven  years, 
is  now  editor  of  the  new  publication,  Southern  Drug  Journal,  the  first  number 
of  which  appeared  in  April.  With  the  reorganization  of  the  South  and  the 
development  of  its  industrial  and  educational  facilities,  the  need  of  a  drug 
journal  representing  its  particular  interests  has  been  felt  for  some  time.  We 
therefore  congratulate  the  editor  and  proprietors  of  the  Southern  Drug  Jour- 
nal upon  the  prospects  and  possibilities  that  lie  before  them. 
