486  Recollections  and  Reminiscences.  {AaoctoberSm' 
He  was  always  eager  to  learn,  and  enjoyed  reminiscences  of  his 
European  trip  in  1867,  frequently  expressing  his  regret  how  much 
he  believed  to  have  missed  while  in  Germany  on  account  of  being 
insufficiently  familiar  with  the  German  language. 
"  Percolation  was  then  in  its  infancy,  and  he  rejoiced  in  having  an 
opportunity  at  one  of  my  visits  of  showing  and  demonstrating  to 
me  in  the  laboratory  adjoining  his  drug  store  the  process  and  the 
various  percolators  then  used  by  him.  At  several  of  his  calls  at 
my  home  he  much  enjoyed  my  collection  of  microscopical  slides  of 
plant  drugs.  He  was  not  used  to  microscopic  technique,  and  ex- 
pressed his  regret  of  not  having  had  in  younger  years  the  oppor- 
tunity of  becoming  familiar  with  the  use  of  the  microscope,  whose 
importance  for  application  in  pharmacy  he  promptly  recognized. 
He  was  particularly  delighted  on  being  shown  the  beautiful  color 
reaction  in  freshly  cut  slides  by  the  action  of  iodine  solution  upon 
the  otherwise  hardly  visible  starch  granules  in  vegetable  cellular 
tissue. 
"  Being  closely  engaged  in  attending  to  my  drug  business  and  to 
microscopical  and  analytical  work  imposed  upon  me  by  medical 
practitioners,  it  was  chiefly  on  Professor  Procter's  solicitation  that  I 
undertook  in  1869  to  prepare  the  annual  report  on  the  progress  of 
pharmacy  for  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  He  sub- 
sequently made,  jointly  with  Professor  Maisch  and  Dr.  Ed.  R.  Squibb, 
strong  efforts  for  inducing  me  to  henceforth  continue  in  this  work, 
but  finally  approved  of  my  argument  for  declining,  as  I  then  deemed 
it  the  greater  service  I  could  perform  for  American  pharmacy  and 
the  Association  by  elaborating  and  offering  them  a  compend  on  the 
examination  of  medicinal  chemicals,  until  then  wanting  in  American 
pharmaceutical  literature. 
"  Professor  Procter  used  to  quite  regularly,  and  always  in  company 
with  his  close  friend,  Dr.  Edw.  R.  Squibb,  attend  the  annual  meet- 
ings of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  greatly  en- 
joyed in  meeting  there  old  and  new  friends.  They  both  stood  fore- 
most in  upholding  the  ethical  standard  of  the  Association  and  of 
American  pharmacy,  and  proved  at  various  opportunities  uncom- 
promising adversaries  of  sophistry  and  empiricism. 
"  I  saw  his  genial  features  for  the  last  time  when  attending  his 
funeral  as  a  delegate  of  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  on 
February  14,  1874.    At  the  occasion  of  a  lecture  on  the  application 
