m.  Jour.  Pharm.\ 
August,  1900.  J 
Obituary. 
the  services  of  Mr.  Bullock,  confirming  from  personal  knowledge  the  state- 
ments made  by  Mr.  Beriuger. 
The  memoir  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Publication. 
The  subject  of  the  consideration  of  the  revised  By-Laws  of  the  College  was 
then  presented,  and,  on  motion,  it  was  resolved  to  consider  them  at  an  ad- 
journed meeting  to  be  held  July  ioth. 
A  communication  was  read  from  Mr.  H.  N.  Rittenhouse,  expressing  his  ap- 
preciation of  the  vote  of  thanks  tendered  him  by  the  College  for  his  long 
service  of  twenty-five  years  as  Treasurer  of  the  Publication  Committee. 
Adjourned  to  meet  July  ioth,  3  p.m. 
An  adjourned  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  was  held  in  the  Library,  July  10,  1900,  at  3  p.m.,  Wm.  J.  Jenks 
presiding.    Twenty-one  members  were  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting,  held  June  25th,  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 
The  consideration  of  the  revised  By-Laws  of  the  College  was  then  taken  up 
and  finally  adopted  as  a  whole. 
A  few  important  changes  were  made.  Among  the  most  important  was  that 
of  making  the  first  annual  dues  of  $5,  on  joining  the  College,  begin  at  the 
Annual  Meeting  in  March. 
The  subject  of  a  revision  of  the  Code  of  Ethics  was  then  introduced,  and, 
after  discussion,  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  By-Laws,  to  propose  any 
alterations  that  may  be  deemed  necessary. 
Mr.  Boring  alluded  to  the  work  performed  by  the  Committee  on  By-Laws  and 
proposed  a  vote  of  thanks  for  the  promptness  with  which  they  had  completed 
their  work.  Adopted. 
C.  A.  WEidemann,  M.D., 
Secretary. 
OBITUARY. 
The  Paris  School  of  Pharmacy  suffered  extraordinary  loss  during  the  past 
spring,  for  between  March  30th  and  April  2rst  three  of  its  professors  were 
called  from  their  labors. 
G.  PI.ANCHON. 
Best  known  in  pharmaceutical  circles  was  Prof.  Gustave  Planchon,Deau  of  the 
Pharmacy  School,  President  of  the  Committee  on  Publication  of  the  Journal 
de  Pharmacie  et  de  Chimie,  ex-President  and  General  Secretary  of  the  Society 
of  Pharmacy,  and  President  of  the  Committee  on  Organization  of  the  Interna- 
tional Pharmaceutical  Congress,  held  in  Paris  during  last  May. 
The  following  is  a  brief  sketch  of  his  inspiring  life,  gleaned  from  eulogies 
pronounced  at  his  funeral : 
Born  in  the  south  of  France  in  1833,  his  early  education  was  under  the  direc- 
tion of  his  brother,  Planchon,  the  botanist.  He  studied  medicine  at  Mont- 
pellier,  and,  after  carrying  off  honors  each  of  his  three  collegiate  years, 
obtained  his  M.D.  degree  in  1859,  and  a  call  as  instructor  from  his  Alma  Mater. 
He  was  then  called  as  Instructor  of  Botany  to  Lausanne,  where  he  taught  dur- 
ing 1860-1862.    He  then  returned  to  Montpellier,  where  he  won  the  Dr.Sc. 
