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the  various  scientific  societies  as  well  as  by  his  former  students. 
Any  one  looking  on  the  good-natured,  pleasant  features  portrayed 
in  the  picture  shown  in  the  exhibition  would  certainly  not  marvel 
why  what  are  now  gray-haired  men  still  refer  feelingly  to  him  as 
"Daddy  Bridges." 
Unless  his  features  belie  him,  he  was  a  man  that  would  appeal 
particularly  to  a  youth  struggling  to  acquire  an  education,  under 
difficulties  such  as  none  but  the  drug  apprentice  of  half  a  century 
ago  had  to  battle  with. 
The  picture  of  Dillwyn  Parrish,  the  fifth  president  of  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy,  recalls  the  assertion  made  by  his  con- 
temporaries that  he  contributed  much  to  give  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege a  name  honored  and  respected  among  the  teaching  institutions 
of  the  country. 
Alfred  B.  Taylor,  another  well-known  man,  and  one  that  was  an 
active  factor  in  the  progress  of  pharmacy,  was  born  in  Philadelphia 
in  1824,  and  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  in  1844.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  committee  sent  to  New  York  in  185 1  and  was 
made  secretary  of  that  meeting.  Next  year  he  was  made  treasurer 
of  the  permanent  organization  and  served  two  years. 
Mr.  Taylor  was  an  active  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  01 
Pharmacy,  acting  as  its  recording  and  later  as  corresponding  secre- 
tary for  a  period  of  thirty-six  years.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Pharmacopceial  Revision  Committees  of  i860,  1870,  1 880  and  1 890, 
and  in  the  latter  two  decades  was  the  chairman  of  the  College  Com- 
mittee on  Revision. 
Mr.  Taylor's  contributions  to  pharmaceutical  literature,  through 
the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  were  numerous,  and  he  is 
generally  recognized  as  having  been  one  of  the  pharmaceutical 
masters  of  his  time. 
Perhaps  no  one  individual  permeated  the  exhibition  as  thoroughly 
as  John  Michael  Maisch,  who,  though  born  in  Germany  (1831),  was 
thoroughly  American  in  his  ideas  and  ideals. 
Not  the  least  interesting  of  the  exhibits  with  which  his  name 
was  connected  were  the  collections  of  crude  drugs  from  his  private 
cabinet,  an  object-lesson  of  the  care  and  work  he  devoted  to  prop- 
erly illustrate  his  lectures. 
A  collection  of  active  principles  of  plant  drugs  bore  evidence 
the  amount  of  original  work  that  Professor  Maisch  devoted  to  the 
