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Among  this  great  collection  of  interesting  material,  a  complete  file 
of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  was  without  question  the 
most  valuable,  embodying  as  it  does  a  very  complete  and  reliable 
account  ol  the  gradual  development  ol  professional  pharmacy  in 
this  country. 
It  was  particularly  appropriate  that  at  this,  the  Fiftieth  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  a  scheme  was 
proposed  to  look  up  and  perpetuate  the  history  of  pharmaceutical 
development.  That  this  will  ultimately  become  a  most  interesting 
and  valuable  department  of  the  work  of  the  Association  is  evidenced 
from  the  mass  of  material  that  was  shown  at  this  exhibition.  It 
was  also  especially  fitting  that  this  innovation  should  have  been 
instituted  in  Philadelphia,  the  home  of  the  pioneers  and  leaders  ot 
ethical  pharmacy,  the  cradle  of  the  first  school  devoted  to  pharma- 
ceutical education  in  this  country,  and  the  first  meeting-place  of 
the  Association  that  has  been  and  no  doubt  will  continue  to  be  an 
important  factor  in  the  growth  and  development  of  pharmacy  along 
professional  lines.  In  this  connection  a  review  of  some  of  the  more 
interesting  data,  connected  with  a  number  of  pharmacists  and 
teachers  whose  portraits  were  on  exhibition,  might  not  be  out  of 
place. 
Among  the  photographs  and  portraits  that  were  shown  on  the 
walls  of  this  exhibition  none  recalls  a  more  touching  and  pathetic 
story  than  does  that  of  Charles  Marshall,  one  of  the  founders,  and 
the  first  president  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  Born 
in  Philadelphia,  April  27,  1747,  ne  was  at  an  eai"ly  date  associated 
with  his  father,  Christopher  Marshall,  in  the  latter's  drug  store  on 
Chestnut  Street  above  Second. 
The  inventory  of  Christopher  Marshall's  property,  on  its  division 
in  1772,  among  the  two  sons,  Charles  and  Christopher,  Jr.,  was  one 
of  the  more  interesting  of  the  old  account  books  displayed  in  the 
exhibition. 
From  accounts  in  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  it  appears 
that  Charles  Marshall  continued  the  business  for  some  years  by  him- 
self,  and  then  associated  with  him  his  son,  Charles  Marshall,  Jr.  In 
the  early  years  of  the  last  century,  the  business,  from  a  combination 
of  circumstances,  met  with  reverses,  and  the  firm  failed.  This  fail- 
ure came  when  Charles  Marshall  had  passed  the  zenith  of  his 
activity,  so  that  he  was  apparently  confronted  by  ruin  and  poverty 
