138      Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {AMan?,"m^*- 
Hemmingway  moved  to  strike  out  the  enacting  clause,  but  withdrew  it  so  thai 
it  might  be  recommitted.  Mr.  Smith  objected,  as  did  Mr.  Kirk,  the  latter  gen- 
tleman thinking  that  too  many  safeguards  could  not  be  thrown  around  the  sale? 
of  drugs.  Mr.  Morrow  thought  the  bill  a  good  one,  as  did  Mr.  Howell,  both- 
gentlemen  saying  that  the  druggists  should  be  given  the  bill,  as  a  means  to  pre- 
vent, if  possible,  so  many  poisoning  cases  as  were  occurring  of  late.  Messrs.. 
Iszard  and  Patterson  favored  the  bill,  The  motion  to  recommit  was  lost,  as. 
was  also  an  rmendment  to  relieve  country  storekeepers  of  having  to  pay  a  $2: 
charge  for  license.  Mr.  Skellinger  offered  an  amendment  that  the  law  should^ 
not  apply  to  townships  of  less  than  2000  inhabitants,  which  was  lost  when  the 
bill  was  passed,  38  to  19. 
Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  stated  meeting  held  Feb.  12th,. 
the  following  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  late  Prof.  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  was 
offered  by  the  President,  Dr.  John  F.  Hancock: 
Gentlemen. — It  becomes  my  painful  duty  to  call  your  attention  to  an  an- 
nouncement that  must  strike  keenly  and  deeply  the  cords  of  reverence  and 
sympathy  in  every  heart  here  present.  It  is  the  only  sorrow  from  which  the 
human  heart  refuses  to  be  severed.  A  feeling  of  regret  and  sorrow  comes  over 
us  when  we  see  the  icy  hand  of  death  placed  upon  a  stranger;  but  what  are 
our  feelings  when  death  comes  to  rob  us  of  dearest  loved  friends  ?  Can  we  look, 
at  their  removal  from  our  midst  with  hearts  unaffected?  No!  Despite  our 
efforts  to  disguise  our  feelings,  which  on  such  occasions  spontaneously  gush> 
forth,  and  with  full  knowledge  of  the  terrible  power  of  the  unwelcome  messen- 
ger, our  hearts  soften  with  sorrow,  and  our  heads  bow  in  humble  yet  mournful, 
submission  to  the  will  of  Him  who  gives  and  who  takes  away.  He  to  whose 
memory  we  are  called  upon  to  pay  tribute  was  not  a  friend  only  but  a  benefac- 
tor also,  not  simply  a  benefactor  of  his  personal  friends,  but  also  of  his  race.. 
His  escutcheon  is  as  free  of  stain  as  is  the  spotless  snow.  We  could  not  speak 
of  his  faults,  were  we  so  inclined,  because  we  know  of  none.  We  knew  him 
only  as  ihe  true  gentleman,  the  con6ding  and  trusty  friend,  the  kind  and  affec- 
tionate husband  and  father,  the  devotee  of  a  humanitarian  science  which  in  its- 
practical  bearings  is  a  part  of  that  profession  which  the  immortal  Hippocrates 
pronounced  to  be  ihe  greatest  of  all  arts.  In  his  profession  he  was  always  a, 
consistent,  steady,  honest  and  persistent  workman.  The  fruits  of  his  labors- 
are  familiar  to  all.  .As  a  pharmaceutical  chemist,  and  as  a  journalist  who  re- 
corded facts  only  so  far  as  he  knew  them  to  be  such  ;  as  a  high-minded  honor- 
able gentleman,  who  was  unconscious  of  his  own  merits  because  of  the  simpli- 
city and  innocence  of  his  moral  nature,  the  name  of  William  Procter,  Jr.,. 
will  command  reverence  and  respect  wherever  and  whenever  his  name  shall  be 
mentioned  in  the  presence  of  a  pharmacist  in  any  part  of  the  civilized  world.. 
Should  any  person  ever  manifest  so  much  ignorance  as  to  inquire  who  was  Wm. 
Procter,  Jr.,  or  what  he  accomplished,  refer  them  to  the  volumes  of  the  "Ame- 
rican Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  which  he  so  long  edited,  and  to  the  Proceedings 
of  the  American  Phai maceutical  Association,  and  implore  them,  not  only  to- 
consult  the  general  index  of  the  works  respectively,  to  ascertain  the  vast  num- 
ber of  his  original  contributions,  but  to  turn  to  the  pages  and  read  the  commu- 
nications, which  cannot  fail  to  afford  much  valuable  information.  If  there  are 
any  under  the  sound  of  my  voice  who  did  not  know  personally  our  friend  and* 
benefactor,  he  who  has  done  more  than  any  other  man  in  this  country  to  ele- 
Tate  the  moral  and  intellectual  standard  of  pharmacy,  by  diffusing  the  purity 
of  its  literature,  I  would  respectfully  refer  them  to  a  fair  sample  of  his  unos- 
tentalional  characteristic  language,  as  shown  in  his  resignation  of  his  position* 
as  Kditor  of  the  '  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,"  dated  Dec.  27th,  1870,  and 
published  in  the  "Journal"  of  that  year. 
Alter  the  reading  of  this  communication,  notwithstanding  the  resignation* 
