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Correspondence. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  19 18. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Department  of  Agriculture, 
Bureau  of  Chemistry, 
Washington,  D.  C, 
April  10,  1918. 
Mr.  George 'M.  Beringer,  Editor,  Am.  Jour,  of  Pharmacy, 
145  N.  ioth  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Dear  Mr.  Beringer: 
Permit  me  to  call  attention  to  an  error  in  the  March  number 
of  your  journal. 
In  the  article  entitled  "  Quarterly  Review  on  the  Advances  in 
Pharmacy,"  Mr.  Thum  stated  as  follows :  "  To  an  American  Phar- 
macist mention  of  the  words  '  Hanbury  Medal '  always  brings  to 
mind  the  first  and  only  American  pharmacist  to  have  received  this 
award,  our  dear  and  distinguished  friend,  the  late  Prof.  John  M. 
Maisch,"  etc. 
You  are  of  course  aware  of  the  fact  that  Dr.  Frederick  B.  Power, 
now  pharmaceutical  research  chemist,  in  charge  of  the  phytochem- 
ical  laboratory  of  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry,  has  also  been  the  hon- 
ored recipient  of  the  Hanbury  Medal,  as  Mr.  Thum  could  have 
learned  by  consulting  the  files  of  the  Journal.  References  to  this 
fact  are  to  be  found  on  pages  290  and  566  of  Vol.  85,  1913,  and  on 
pages  94  and  95  of  Vol.  86,  1914,  the  congratulatory  letter  of 
Howard  B.  French,  president  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy, and  the  response  of  Dr.  Power  are  reproduced.  Since  Dr. 
Power  is  one  of  the  most  distinguished  sons  of  the  college,  and  in 
fact  a  former  pupil  of  Professor  Maisch,  as  well  as  one  of  the  most 
brilliant  phytochemists  in  the  world,  it  is  highly  proper  that  the  error 
above  referred  to  should  be  rectified  in  the  Journal  as  promptly  as 
possible.    Will  you  kindly  give  this  matter  your  personal  attention  ? 
Respectfully, 
V.  K.  Chesnut. 
