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Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\     Oct.  1, 1872. 
benefit  him  after  the  season  of  trial  through  which  he  had  recently  passed ;  a 
few  of  his  relatives  and  friends  had  heard  of  his  sickness  at  Fort  Sill,  but  to 
all  the  message  came  like  a  heavy  cloud,  which  for  a  time  obscured  all  but  its 
own  portentous  shadow. 
To  the  members  of  this  Board,  with  whom  for  years  he  has  been  associated 
in  council, — to  his  brother  Professors  in  the  College,  now  about  resuming  their 
courses  of  lectures, — the  announcement  comes  at  a  time,  and  so  unexpectedly, 
that  we  have  found  ourselves  catching  at  a  ray  of  hope  that  the  wires  had  mis- 
construed their  message,  and  it  is  only  as  that  faint  hope  vanishes  before  the 
impressive  certainty  that  his  form  and  voice  will  never  again  appear  in  our 
midst  that  we  begin  to  realize  the  loss  which  we  have  sustained. 
It  is  not  within  the  premises  allotted  to  your  Committee  to  offer  a  biographi- 
cal sketch  of  the  deceased,  but  a  glance  at  his  connection  with  this  College  will 
not  be  without  interest  at  this  time.  Edward  Parrish  was  a  graduate  of  the 
class  of  1842  ;  in  the  following  year  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  College^ 
and  in  March,  1854,  he  was  elected  as  its  Secretary,  and  filled  that  position 
faithfully  until  September,  1864,  a  period  of  10|  years. 
The  decease  of  Prof.  Robt.  P.  Thomas  having  made  a  vacancy  in  the  chair 
of  Materia  Medica,  he  was  elected  his  successor  in  1864.  In  1866  Prof.  Proc- 
ter resigned  the  chair  of  Pharmacy,  and  was  succeeded  by  Prof.  Maisch;  after 
one  course  of  lectures  a  transfer  of  chairs  was  effected  (in  1867),  by  consent  of 
this  Board,  Prof.  Parrish  taking  the  chair  of  Pharmacy,  as  more  congenial  to 
his  previous  habits.  This  position  he  filled,  and  was  expected  to  occupy  dur- 
ing the  session  so  soon  to  commence  when  the  electric  messenger  announced 
that  he  would  be  with  us  no  more  ! 
Prof.  Parrish  was  thoroughly  identified  with  this  College,  and  took  a  lively 
interest  in  its  welfare  and  progress  ;  as  a  pharmacist  he  was  widely  known,  and 
as  a  writer  he  had  an  extended  reputation. 
The  circumstances  attending  his  illness  and  decease  are  as  yet  not  sufficiently 
known  to  be  recorded.  He  had  accepted  an  appointment  by  the  Government 
to  visit  the  Indian  tribes  [placed  under  the  supervision  of  a  Committee  of  the 
Society  of  Frieuds]  located  in  the  Indian  Territory,  being  west  of  Arkansas  and 
between  Kansas  and  Texas.  While  in  discharge  of  this  duty  he  fell  a  victim 
to  the  miasmatic  fever  of  that  country. 
We  are  not  permitted  to  gather  round  his  mortal  remains  as  an  evidence  of 
our  respect,  but  here,  where  he  has  lived  and  moved  among  us,  we  offer  our' 
tribute  to  his  memory,  and  join  with  his  friends  and  relatives  in  sorrow  over 
our  mutual  loss. 
Chas.  Bullock,  Ch'n., 
William  Procter,  Jr., 
Ambrose  Smith. 
"Resolved,  That  with  unfeigned  sorrow  this  Board  has  learned  of  the  unex~ 
pected  decease  of  their  late  fellow-member,  Edward  Parrish,  Professor  of 
Pharmacy  in  the  School  of  this  College,  and,  as  a  testimony  of  regard,  direct 
the  foregoing  report  of  the  Committee  to  be  recorded  on  the  minutes  of  the 
Board,  and  a  copy  to  be  furnished  to  the  family  of  the  deceased. 
At  an  adjourned  meeting,  held  September  24th,  Professor  William  Trocter^ 
Jr.,  to  whom  the  chair  of  Pharmacy  rendered  vacant  by  the  decease  of  Pro- 
fessor Edward  Parrish  had  been  offered,  accepted  it,  and  was  unanimously  re- 
elected to  the  position,  which  in  1846  was  created  as  an  experiment,  and  which 
owes  its  success  and  recognized  usefulness  mainly  to  his  unremitting  industry 
and  untiring  exertions  while  he  labored  as  Professor  of  Pharmacy  during  a 
period  of  twenty  consecutive  years,  until  in  1866  the  Board  had  reluctantly 
accepted  his  resignation. 
