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born  in  Austria  in  1841,  and  came  to  this  country  during  the  Civil 
War.  He  entered  the  navy  as  hospital  steward,  and  later  he 
became  assistant  to  John  Frey,  apothecary  at  Bellevue  Hospital, 
New  York.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Frey,  Mr.  Rice  was  made 
apothecary,  and  later  chemist  to  the  Department  of  Charities  and 
Corrections. 
Charles  Rice  was  of  a  retiring  disposition  but  of  sterling  char- 
acter, as  is  evidenced  by  all  who  ever  came  in  contact  with  him. 
He  was  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy 
and  also  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  His  most  valu- 
able and  permanent  work  for  the  advancement  of  American  phar- 
macy, however,  was  done  as  chairman  of  the  Pharmacopceial  Revi- 
sion Committee. 
It  was  he  who  made  the  U.S. P.  a  book  that  we  can  justly  say 
compares  favorably  with  any  of  its  contemporaries.  He  died  in 
Bellevue  Hospital,  May  3,  1901,  honored  and  respected  by  all  who 
knew  him.  He  left  behind  him  a  record  that  will  be  difficult  to 
equal,  and  one  for  which  American  pharmacists  owe  his  memory  a 
debt  that  will  be  difficult  to  repay. 
If  this  brief  and  imperfect  resume  of  the  thoughts  that  were 
awakened  by  the  recent  exhibition  will  induce  some  one  more  able 
than  the  writer  to  take  up  the  subject  and  give  to  these  pioneers  and 
leaders  even  a  meagre  portion  of  the  recognition  that  is  due  them, 
these  lines  will  not  have  been  penned  in  vain. 
PRE-HISTORIC  PHARMACY  IN  AMERICA.1 
By  John  Uri  L,loyd. 
The  poet  Longfellow  is  reputed  to  have  been  visited  by  an  Eng- 
lish traveler  who  said,  "  Your  country,  sir,  is  so  awfully  big  and  new 
one  cannot  see  it  in  an  age.  Then,  sir,  there  are  no  castles,  no 
ruins  to  tell  of  old  times." 
Whether  this  story  is  fact  or  not,  the  expression  voices  the  views 
of  the  majority  of  Europeans  and  I  fear  Americans  as  well.  As  one 
reared  from  childhood  among  pre-historic  mounds  and  man-made 
relics  that  speak  of  an  American  antiquity  that  is  voiceless  in  its 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Philadelphia,  1902. 
