Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
January,  19 17. 
Wilbert  Memorial  Meeting. 
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President  French  then  declared  the  meeting  open  for  comments 
on  the  life  and  activities  of  the  departed.  Professor  Remington  in 
a  few  well-chosen  words  related  the  circumstances  connected  with 
Dr.  Wilbert's  death  and  gave  a  general  outline  of  his  career  in  phar- 
macy. Dr.  F.  E.  Stewart  endorsed  the  sentiments  expressed  by 
Professor  Remington  and  pointed  out  what  a  loss  had  come  to  pro- 
fessional pharmacy  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Wilbert.  Mr.  H.  E.  Smith, 
vice-president  of  the  German  Hospital,  spoke  of  Dr.  Wilbert's  con- 
nection with  that  institution,  lauding  his  work  very  highly.  Profes- 
sor E.  G.  Eberle  read  a  beautiful  tribute  summing  up  the  activities 
of  Dr.  Wilbert  during  his  lifetime  and  referring  to  his  influence  upon 
modern  pharmaceutical  and  medical  thought.  Dr.  H.  P.  Hynson 
feelingly  expressed  his  sense  of  loss  through  Dr.  Wilbert's  death,  as 
he  had  been  an  intimate  friend  of  the  deceased  for  many  years  and 
shared  his  views  on  the  pharmaceutical  problems  of  the  day.  He 
urged  that  Wilbert's  life  and  works  be  made  a  subject  of  careful 
study  by  the  coming  generation  of  pharmacists,  as  great  good  would 
surely  come  of  his  work  if  it  be  carried  on  to  its  ultimate  conclusion. 
Professor  Hostmann  also  expressed  the  view  that  Wilbert's  in- 
fluence on  the  younger  men  in  pharmacy  would  be  a  profound  one. 
Dr.  J.  W.  Sturmer  spoke  of  Dr.  Wilbert's  activities  in  the  Phila- 
delphia Branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  which 
he  helped  to  organize,  and  said  that  the  many  printed  pages  in  our 
pharmaceutical  publications  were  monuments  to  Wilbert's  career. 
His  work  has  ceased  but  his  influence  will  go  on  indefinitely.  Pro- 
fessor C.  H.  La  Wall  referred  to  Dr.  Wilbert's  work  as  a  member 
of  the  Xational  Formulary  Revision  Committee  and  as  the  author 
of  "  Digest  of  Comments  on  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  Xational  For- 
mulary." Professor  Henry  Kraemer  read  a  letter  from  one  of  Dr. 
Wilbert's  sisters  in  which  Dr.  Wilbert's  early  history  was  portrayed. 
Dr.  William  D.  Robinson,  who  had  worked  with  Dr.  Wilbert  at  the 
German  Hospital,  commented  upon  his  scientific  attainments,  es- 
pecially in  the  operation  and  development  of  the  X-ray.  He  stated 
that  Dr.  Wilbert  had  been  of  incalculable  value  to  the  medical  profes- 
sion and  had  been  ready  and  willing  at  all  times  to  assist  physicians 
in  their  work. 
Other  speakers  were  Drs.  P.  Samuel  Stout,  A.  T.  Pollard, 
Charles  L.  Turnbull  and  Franklin  M.  Apple. 
