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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1918. 
The  editorials,  that  gave  publicity  to  his  personal  ideas  upon  cur- 
rent events,  are  possibly  the  most  frequent  subjects  for  his  mental 
debates.  To  get  the  right  "  punch  "  in  these  to  make  them  effective 
yet  not  repellant  is  at  times  difficult,  especially  if  he  is  working  under 
a  high  tenson  and  there  is  cause  for  vigorous  expression. 
Consequently,  the  editor  welcomes  not  only  timely  contributions, 
but,  likewise,  suggestions  and  comments,  even  adverse  criticisms  of 
the  articles  he  publishes  as  evidences  of  the  value  of  his  publication. 
Even  though  such  comments  refer  only  to  errors  of  writers  or  of  the 
compositor,  they  have  a  dual  significance  to  him ;  first,  because  they 
give  an  opportunity  for  correction  of  the  error  and  secondly  because 
they  show  that  the  journal  is  read. 
Coming  down  to  the  first  person  singular,  the  present  editor  of 
the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  has  had  some  personal  ex- 
periences that  well  illustrate  the  foregoing  general  remarks.  The 
librarian  of  one  of  the  departments  of  the  government  was  one  of  a 
number  of  readers  who  called  my  attention  to  an  error  on  the  cover 
page  of  the  February  and  March  numbers  of  the  Journal,  where  the 
current  volume  was  printed  as  "  Vol.  91  "  instead  of  Vol.  90. 
The  communication  of  Dr.  V.  K.  Chestnut  published  in  the  "  Cor- 
respondence "  in  this  number  of  the  Journal  gives  us  an  opportunity 
to  correct  an  oversight,  an  inadvertent  lapse  of  memory  for  the 
time  being  of  a  valued  contributor.  In  commenting  upon  the  award 
of  the  Hanbury  medal  to  Prof.  Greenish,  the  contributor  referred 
to  the  late  Prof.  John  M.  Maisch  as  the  only  American  who  had  been 
so  honored,  thus  overlooking  the  fact,  to  which  Dr.  Chestnut  directs 
attention,  namely,  that  Dr.  F.  B.  Power,  a  graduate  of  the  Philadel- 
phia College  of  Pharmacy,  whose  achievements  in  pharmaceutical 
and  chemical  research  we  have  greatly  admired,  was  among  the  few 
who  had  been  so  signally  honored  and  that  Dr.  Power  was  an  Amer- 
ican of  whom  we  are  justly  proud. 
The  fact  that  Dr.  Fred.  B.  Power  was  for  so  many  years  a  resi- 
dent of  England  and  that  while  residing  there  he  engaged  in  some 
of  his  most  noted  investigations  and  that  these  were  generally  pub- 
lished as  contributions  from  the  Research  Laboratories  of  Burroughs 
Wellcome  &  Co.  has  possibly  led  many  who  were  not  acquainted 
with  his  history  to  imagine  that  he  was  of  English  birth.  Our  con- 
tributor doubtless  had  so  firmly  impressed  in  his  mind  the  association 
of  Dr.  Power  with  the  literature  of  pharmacy  and  chemistry  emanat- 
ing from  Great  Britain  that  temporarily  he  was  forgetful  of  the 
