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Maryland  in  1904,  also  representing  it  on  the  board  of  regents  of  the 
university  and  on  the  university  council.  The  university  conferred 
the  honorary  degree  of  doctor  of  pharmacy  upon  him  in  1907  in 
recognition  of  his  many  attainments.  During  the  last  three  years, 
he  has  been  lecturer  on  pharmacy  in  the  Johns  Hopkins  Medical 
School. 
Dr.  Caspari  has  contributed  regularly  to  the  current  literature  of 
the  profession  since  his  graduation,  and  yet  his  ability  as  an  author 
was  not  fully  recognized  until  the  appearance  in  1895  of  his 
"  Treatise  on  Pharmacy,"  which  was  only  last  year  revised  for  the 
5th  edition,  and  which  is  a  standard,  "  preeminently  intended  to  be 
one  of  insturction  and  aid  in  the  study  and  use  of  the  Pharma- 
copoeia." For  years,  he  has  also  been  the  pharmaceutical  editor  of 
the  National  Standard  Dispensatory. 
As  a  member  of  its  Committee  on  Revision,  and  as  a  Vice- 
President  of  the  Pharmacopoeial  Convention,  1910,  Dr.  Caspari  has 
done  valuable  work  on  the  revisions  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  under- 
taken in  1890,  1900  and  1910,  and  was  a  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  last  as  chairman  of  the  subcommittee  on  nomen- 
clature. He  was  also  a  member  of  the  National  Formulary  Com- 
mittee for  the  first  and  second  editions  of  this  work,  acting  as  chair- 
man of  the  subcommittee  on  additions  in  the  latter  revision. 
The  success  of  pharmaceutical  and  allied  associations  was  of 
great  interest  to  Dr.  Caspari,  possibly  that  of  the  Maryland  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  in  1882 
and  a  charter  member,  and  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, which  he  joined  in  1884,  more  than  others,  although  he  was  an 
active  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  American 
Chemical  Society  and  other  scientific  and  professional  bodies,  and 
an  honorary  member  of  many  others.  He  filled  many  important 
offices  in  his  state  and  national  association,  but  resolutely  declined 
election  to  their  highest  office.  In  the  national  body,  he  was  elected 
permanent  secretary  to  succeed  Professor  Maish  in  1894,  and  in 
1896  was  made  general  secretary,  which  office  he  resigned  in  191 1. 
To  the  duties  of  this  office  and  the  interests  of  the  association  was 
given  possibly  his  greatest  efforts  and  devotion  next  to  his  work  as 
a  teacher,  and  with  results  which  this  short  memoir  could  not  pos- 
sibly set  forth,  but  which  are  not  only  nationally  but  internationally 
appreciated.   As  an  editor  of  the  mass  of  pharmaceutical  literature 
