%oyVlmT-}    Memoir  of  Prof  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.  525 
macy  in  the  United  States,  and  the  twenty  volumes  of  the  Journal 
which  bear  his  name  as  editor,  will  remain  a  monument  to  his 
genius  and  zeal. 
In  October,  1849,  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  was  married,  at  Mount  Holly 
N.  J.,  to  Margaretta,  daughter  of  Amos  and  Elizabeth  Bullock. 
During  this  year  was  issued  from  the  press  his  American  edition  of 
Mohr  and  Redwood's  Practical  Pharmacy.  This  voluminous  work 
was  enriched  by  additions  from  his  own  pen.  The  work  never  went 
through  a  second  edition,  attributed  in  a  great  measure  to  the  cost  of 
proper  illustration,  which  the  publishers  were  not  willing  to  incur,  and 
without  which  much  of  the  value  of  the  work  would  have  been  lost, 
In  October,  1851,  there  was  assembled  in  the  City  of  New  York  a 
convention  of  pharmaceutists,  in  pursuance  of  a  call  made  by  the 
New  York  College  of  Pharmacy,  for  the  purpose  of  considering  the 
law  relating  to  the  inspection  of  drugs  at  the  Custom  House,  and  to 
fix  upon  some  standard  which  would  enable  inspectors  to  act  with 
uniformity  and  discernment.  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
was  represented  by  Chas.  Ellis,  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  and  Alfred  B, 
Taylor.  This  convention  was  impressed  with  the  advantages  which 
would  be  derived  by  the  pharmacists  of  the  United  States  from  an 
association  national  in  character,  where,  by  personal  intercourse  and 
exchange  of  experience,  the  practice  of  pharmacy  throughout  our 
widely  extended  country  would  be  more  harmonized  and  the  general 
standard  of  education  elevated.  It  was  therefore  "  resolved  that  a 
convention  be  called,  consisting  of  three  delegates  from  each  incorpo- 
rated and  unincorporated  pharmaceutical  society,  to  meet  in  Philadel- 
phia on  the  first  Wednesday  in  October,  1852." 
This  convention  assembled  in  the  old  College  building,  in  Zane 
street  (now  Filbert  street),  and  here  was  inaugurated  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  President  of  the  College,  Daniel  B. 
Smith,  acting  as  its  first  presiding  officer.  From  the  time  of  its 
inception  William  Procter,  Jr.,  enlisted  all  his  activity  in  promoting  its 
welfare,  and  his  name  will  be  found  in  all  its  Proceedings  down  to  the 
meeting  in  Richmond,  Ya.,  in  1873.  In  1852  he  was  a  member  of 
its  first  executive  committee  ;  in  1853  was  chairman  of  a  committee 
appointed  to  prepare  an  address  to  the  pharmaceutists  of  the  United 
States  on  the  subject  of  pharmaceutical  instruction. 
In  1853  he  was  a  member  of  the  committee  appointed  to  prepare 
a  paper  on  the  standard  of  quality  for  drugs,  together  with  appro- 
