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Obituary  Notices. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
*■  November,  1917. 
George  M.  Olcott,  a  member  of  the  well-known  firm  Dodge  & 
Olcott,  New  York,  manufacturers  and  importers  of  essential  oils 
and  perfume  products,  died  on  September  14,  191 7.  Mr.  Olcott 
was  prominent  in  commercial  and  financial  circles  for  many  years. 
Professor  Charles  Caspari,  Jr.,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  died  sud- 
denly on  Saturday  morning,  October  13.  In  addition  to  being  a 
teacher  in  the  Baltimore  College  of  Pharmacy,  Prof.  Caspari  was, 
for  a  long  time,  the  General  Secretary  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  and  many  of  its  Annual  Proceedings  were  edited 
by  him. 
For  some  years  he  has  served  the  State  of  Maryland  as  Food 
and  Drug  Commissioner.  He  was  preparing  to  visit  his  office  in 
the  Health  Department  when  the  summons  of  death  came.  While 
his  friends  knew  that  for  some  time  his  health  was  in  a  rather 
precarious  condition  and  that  he  was  a  sufferer  from  a  cardiac  ail- 
ment, his  sudden  decease  was  nevertheless  a  severe  shock. 
On  Tuesday,  October  23,  a  memorial  meeting  was  held  in  the 
Chemical  Hall  of  the  University  of  Maryland,  and  many  of  his 
friends  gathered  to  attest  their  regard  and  to  pay  a  fitting  tribute 
to  one  whose  life  had  been  mainly  spent  in  the  interest  of  pharmacy. 
An  appropriate  memoir  of  this  eminent  American  pharmacist 
will  be  published  in  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  at  an 
early  date. 
