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Notes  and  News. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I      August,  1904. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
Theodore  Weicker,  Editor  of  Merck's  Report  and  member  of  the  firm  of 
Merck  &  Co.,  New  York,  has  by  mutual  agreement  retired  from  that  firm. 
The  other  member  of  the 
firm,  Mr.  George  Merck, 
will  continue  the  business 
as  heretofore,  under  the 
same  firm  name. 
Mr.  Weicker  has  been 
prominently  identified  with 
the  house  of  Merck  for 
more  than  twenty  years, 
and  his  influence  in  its 
council  has  been  recog- 
nized both  here  and  abroad. 
In  1887  he  organized  the 
American  branch  of  the 
house,  which  has  been 
characterized  by  high-plane 
and  progressive  business 
methods.  The  next  year 
he  was  elected  a  life-mem- 
ber of  the  New  York  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy. 
It  is  not  Mr.  Weicker' s 
purpose  to  relinquish  his 
active  business  life,  and  on 
his  return  from  Europe  in 
the  spring  of  1905,  he  will 
re-establish  himself  in  New 
York  under  the  firm  name 
of  Theodore  Weicker 
Company,  manufacturers  and  importers  of  chemicals  and  drugs.  Meantime, 
letters  and  telegrams  to  him  should  be  addressed  care  Deutsche  Bank,  Berlin. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  Fifty-second  Annual 
Meeting  will  be  held  at  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  September  5-10  inclusive,  beginning 
at  3  p.m.  on  Monday,  the  5th.  The  headquarters  of  the  Association  will  be  at 
the  Coates  House,  where  by.special  arrangement  a  rate  of  $2.50  per  day  and 
upwards,  on  the  American  plan,  has  been  secured. 
The  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy,  having  become  a  department  of 
the  University  of  Maryland,  has  been  installed  in  the  new  University  Building, 
in  Greene  Street,  Baltimore.  The  members  of  the  College  faculty  other  than 
Prof.  D.  M.  R.  Culbreth,  who  is  already  identified  with  the  University,  were 
elected  members  of  the  University  Faculty  at  a  meeting  on  July  7th. 
Prof.  H.  H.  Rusby,  of  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy,  according  to 
Torreya,  is  now  at  Kew,  engaged  in  the  critical  comparison  of  South  American 
material  from  the  herbarium  of  the  New  York  Botanical  Garden  with  that  pre- 
served in  the  herbarium  of  the  Royal  Gardens. 
