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Obituary. 
("Am.  Jour.  Pbarrri. 
\     January,  1904. 
tities  of  virus,  and  in  order  to  meet  such  demands,  in  1886  he 
established  a  branch  laboratory  at  Omaha,  Neb.,  and  as  an  additional 
precautionary  measure  a  supplemental  plant  was  erected  in  1894  on 
a  farm  near  McEwensville,  in  Northumberland  County,  Pa.  In  1889, 
Dr.  Alexander  decided  to  relinquish  the  practice  of  medicine  and 
devote  his  entire  time  to  the  extensive  business.  Subsequently  the 
style  of  the  firm  was  changed  to  Dr.  H.  M.  Alexander  &  Co.,  and 
quite  recently  extensive  improvements  were  made  in  the  Marietta 
laboratories  and  a  department  established  for  the  manufacture  of 
antidiphtheritic  serum. 
Dr.  H.  M.  Alexander  was  an  active  member  of  the  Lancaster 
City  and  County  Medical  Societies  and  a  contributor  to  their  pro- 
ceedings. He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  State  Medi- 
cal Association  and  attended  their  recent  meeting  in  September  at 
York,  Pa.  The  day  following  his  return  from  this  convention  he 
was  taken  ill,  but  appeared  to  be  improving  until  overcome  by  a 
sudden  attack  of  angina. 
Dr.  H.  M.  Alexander  was  married  in  1877  to  Miss  Martha  Wool- 
man,  of  Philadelphia.    She  and  six  children  survive  him. 
G.  M.  B. 
BARNARD  SIMPSON  PROCTOR. 
By  the  death  of  Barnard  Simpson  Proctor,  F.I.C.,  in  September 
last,  British  pharmacy  lost  one  of  its  most  able  and  honored 
exponents. 
Yet,  notwithstanding  the  distinction  won  by  Mr.  Proctor  as  a 
pharmaceutical  chemist,  teacher  and  writer,  his  life  may  be  said  to 
have  been  one  long  protest  against  the  fate  that  made  him  a  phar- 
macist. As  a  boy,  he  had  a  taste  for  mechanics  and  physics,  and 
his  desire  was  to  become  an  optician  and  philosophical  instrument 
maker.  In  an  appreciation  of  him,  the  editor  of  the  Chemist  and 
Druggist  says :  "  Proctor  ought  never  to  have  been  behind  the 
counter.  It  is  good  for  pharmacy  that  he  was  ;  but  his  abilities 
and  his  philosophic  mind  would  have  ensured  for  him  high  rank 
in  pure  science." 
Mr.  Proctor  was  born  at  Newcastle-on-Tyne  in  1829,  and  was 
the  fifth  in  line-  of  five  generations  of  chemists.  After  passing  his 
major  examination  in  1853  he  entered  into  partnership  with  his 
father,  the  late  William  Proctor,  pharmaceutical  chemist,  it  being 
the  desire  of  his  father  that  he  be  a  druggist  and  chemist,  and  con- 
