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Notes  and  News. 
(  A.m.  Jour.  Pharm, 
I      August.  1907. 
evening  May  19th,  of  erysipelas.  Dr.  James  was  born  August  27,  1841,  in  Mo- 
bile, Alabama.  His  ancestry  was  of  the  New  England  type  on  his  mother's 
side,  and  of  English  yeomen  on  the  paternal  side.  He  early  manifested  his 
exceptional  qualities  of  mind,  and  we  take  the  following  from  the  National 
Druggist  for  June:  "His  facility  in  the  acquirement  of  languages  was  little 
short  of  marvelous.  There  is  hardly  a  language  that  has  a  literature  with 
which  he  was  not  more  or  less  familiar,  and  most  of  them  he  could  read  and 
translate  with  ease." 
Dr.  James  received  his  chemical  education  in  the  laboratory  of  Baron  Justus 
von  Liebig,  who  was  his  friend  as  well  as  teacher.  He  graduated  in  medicine 
in  Paris  on  the  eve  of  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War  in  the  United  States, 
and,  coming  home,  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Secret  Service  of  the  Con- 
federacy by  President  Davis.  Dr.  James  was  at  one  time  president  of  the 
American  Microscopical  Society,  and  was  the  author  of  a  book  entitled  "  Ele- 
mentary Microscopical  Technology."  He  had  been  connected  with  the 
National  Druggist  for  eighteen  years,  and  for  his  place  it  will  be  difficult  to 
choose  a  successor. 
David  Hooper,  F.L.S.,  F.I.C.,  F.C.S.,  who  was  Quinologist  to  the  Madras 
Government  for  thirteen  years,  and  who  is  now  acting  as  Curator  of  the  Indus- 
trial Section  of  the  Indian  Museum,  at  Calcutta,  has  this  year  been  chosen 
Hanbury  Medallist. 
Mr.  Hooper's  services  as  Quinologist,  his  investigations  on  the  chemical 
constituents  of  a  large  number  of  Indian  drugs,  and  his  share  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  the  following  works:  "  Pharmacographia  Indica,"  "Materia  Medica 
of  Madras,"  and  "An  Introduction  to  Materia  Medica  for  India,"  leave  no 
question  as  to  his  fitness  for  the  honor  which  is  to  be  conferred  upon  him. 
Joseph  Hexfman,  editor  of  the  Bulletin  of  Pharmacy  for  the  past  thirteen 
and  a  half  years,  announced  his  withdrawal  from  pharmaceutical  journalism 
in  the  May  number  of  that  journal.  Perhaps  during  the  whole  course  of 
his  editorial  career,  Mr.  Helfman  has  not  given  expression  to  a  more  significant 
saying  than  is  contained  in  the  following  paragraph  taken  from  his  concluding 
editorial:  "Mindful  of  my  own  great  debt  to  American  pharmacy,  I  would 
fain  express  the  deep  conviction  that  its  future  welfare  will  be  assured  only  in 
the  degree  that  it  fosters  a  rising  sense  of  responsibility  in  its  followers. 
Neither  among  individuals  nor  among  whole  classes  of  men  can  success  abide 
unless  they  invite  and  seek  and  court  responsibility.  The  true  measure  of  a 
man  is  his  readiness  to  bear  it.  What  lasting  success  can  pharmacists  expect 
if  they  shirk  their  accountability  to  the  medical  profession  and  to  the  sick, 
if  they  skulk  behind  laws  and  associations  and  manufacturers?" 
Mr.  Harry  B.  Mason,  formerly  associate  editor  of  the  Bulletin,  now  be- 
comes the  sole  editor.  Mr.  Mason  is  a  student,  a  forceful  speaker  and  writer, 
and  possessed  of  an  original  turn  of  mind — all  which  help  to  fit  him  for  his 
responsible  duties. 
