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memorialized  Congress  to  grant  the  same.  He  was  surprised  to  learn  that  at 
the  recent  meeting  at  Asheville,  N.  C,  this  same  association  had  passed  a  reso- 
lution recommending  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  to  so  construe  the  law  as 
not  to  admit  of  free  alcohol  being  used  for  the  purposes  of  the  pharmacist. 
This  action  was  not  in  harmony  with  their  past  labors,  and  the  reason  for  such 
was  beyond  our  comprehension,  as  it  certainly  did  not  correctly  present  the 
views  of  the  retail  pharmacists  of  America.  Whatever  the  regulations  that 
might  be  adopted,  they  should  be  so  framed  as  to  place  the  retail  pharmacist, 
who  purchased  his  alcohol  in  io-gallon  cans  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing 
pharmaceutical  preparations,  on  the  same  level  as  the  larger  manufacturer  who 
purchased  alcohol  by  the  carload.  Any  plan  which  would  not  include  the 
smaller  manufacturer  would  be  manifestly  unjust  and  the  worst  kind  of  class 
legislation. 
The  resolutions  were  then  taken  up  and  considered  singly,  and  finally  adopted 
as  a  whole. 
It  was  moved  and  seconded  that  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  to  prepare 
a  paper  embodying  our  views,  and  have  it  sent  to  the  druggists  of  the  whole 
country,  and  that  it  be  referred  to  the  publications  of  the  College. 
The  chair  appointed 
Mr.  G.  M.  Beringer,  Chairman. 
Rush  P.  Marshal,  J.  W.  England, 
Wm.  McIntyrk,  Robert  England. 
Professor  Trimble  called  attention  to  an  improvement  in  the  microscope, 
made  by  our  fellow-member,  H.  M.  Wilder  (see  page  523),  which  consists  of  a 
revolving  sub-stage,  contrived  to  furnish  four  different  kinds  of  illumination 
by  the  condenser,  the  dark  back-ground,  the  polarizer  and  simple  illumination. 
The  meeting  then  adjourned  to  visit  in  the  Microscopical  Laboratory. 
T.  S.  Wiegand,  Registrar. 
OBITUARY. 
Jacob  Hoch,  Ph.G.,  Class  of  1891,  died  at  the  residence  of  his  sister,  at  the 
old  Hoch  Homestead,  on  the  Easton  Road,  near  Easton,  Pa.,  on  Saturday, 
September  22,  1894,  of  heart  disease,  in  his  27th  year.  He  received  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  near  Easton,  Pa,  and  learned  the  drug  business 
with  Milton  M.  Buss,  Ph.G.,  at  South  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  remaining  with  him 
from  1886  to  1889  ;  in  the  latter  year  he  came  to  Philadelphia,  and  entered  the 
employ  of  Wm.  H.  Lantz,  corner  Seventeenth  and  Columbia  Avenue.  He 
attended  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1889,  '90  and  '91,  and  gradu- 
ated with  the  Class  of  1891.  He  entered  into  business  for  himself  in  April, 
1893,  at  No.  3913  Lancaster  Avenue,  which  he  carried  on  successfully  until  a 
few  days  before  his  death,  when  he  sold  his  store  and  was  taken  to  the  resi- 
dence of  his  sister  in  Easton,  Pa.,  on  Tuesday,  September  18th,  and  died  sud- 
denly with  heart  disease  on  Saturday,  September  22d,  although  he  had  been 
suffering  with  consumption  during  the  past  year.  He  was  a  young  man  of 
good  character,  and  had  many  friends  both  in  his  native  place  and  in  Philadel- 
phia, who  received  the  news  of  his  death  with  much  sorrow.    He  was  a  mem- 
