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nation,  and  other  processes  nitro-anthraquinone,  sulpho-anthra- 
quinone,  chloro-anthraquinone,  amido-anthraquinone,  etc.,  are  pre- 
pared, and  these  serve  as  intermediaries  for  the  manufacture  of  a 
large  variety  of  valued  dyes. 
CHARLES  H.  LA  WALL,  PH.M. 
President-Elect  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Charles  H.  LaWall,  associate  professor  of  theory  and  practice 
of  pharmacy  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  has  been 
elected  president  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  for 
the  year  1918-1919. 
Charles  Herbert  LaWall  was  born  at  Allentown,  Pa.,  on  May  7, 
1871.  His  father  was  John  J.  LaWall,  likewise  a  druggist,  and  who 
for  some  years  had  a  store  in  that  city. 
In  1876  John  J.  LaWall  accepted  a  responsible  position  with  the 
drug  firm  of  Moyer  Brothers,  engaged  in  the  retail,  jobbing  and 
manufacturing  of  pharmaceuticals  at  Bloomsburg,  Columbia  County, 
Pa.,  and  his  family  was  removed  to  that  locality. 
The  early  education  of  Charles  H.  LaWall  was  obtained  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  the  Bloomsburg  State  Normal  School.  In  the 
latter  his  instruction  embraced  physics,  chemistry,  higher  mathe- 
matics, including  trigonometry,  Latin,  and  German.  In  July,  1888, 
he  engaged  with  the  firm  of  Moyer  Brothers  to  learn  the  drug 
business,  and  served  with  them  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years. 
He  came  to  Philadelphia  and  matriculated  as  a  student  in  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  September,  1891,  and  was 
graduated  in  1893. 
While  attending  the  college,  he  was  in  the  employ  of  Smith, 
Kline  &  French  Co.  After  graduating  he  was  engaged  for  some 
time  in  a  retail  store  in  Atlantic  City.  In  1894,  he  returned  to 
Philadelphia  and  accepted  a  position  in  the  analytical  department  of 
Smith,  Kline  &  French  Co. 
He  has  been  a  close  student,  a  keen  observer,  an  accurate  in- 
vestigator, always  making  the  best  of  his  opportunities  and  assidu- 
ously, enlarging  the  scope  of  his  work  and  broadening  his  influence. 
He  has  taken  a  lively  interest  in  the  state  and  national  pharma- 
ceutical associations,  and  his  numerous  contributions  to  the  litera- 
ture of  pharmacy  prove  that  his  pen,  as  well  as  his  intellect,  has 
