526  Memoir  of  Prof .  Wm.  Procter,  Jr. 
priate  tests  for  detecting  adulteration.  This  committee  was  contin- 
ued until  the  year  1856. 
In  1856  he  was  chairman  of  the  first  committee  on  the  progress  of 
pharmacy,  all  previous  reports  on  this  subject  having  been  made  by 
him  in  his  capacity  of  corresponding  secretary.  In  the  same  year  he 
was  appointed  chairman  of  a  committee  to  report  a  syllabus  of  a  course 
of  study  appropriate  to  students  of  pharmacy.  This  committee  was 
continued  until  the  year  1858,  when  he  made  the  report  published  in 
the  volume  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Association  of  that  year.  He 
was  corresponding  secretary  from  1852  to  1857,  first  vice-president 
in  1859-60,  and  was  elected  president  at  the  session  of  the  Associa- 
tion which  convened  in  Philadelphia  in  1862.  In  1866  he  was  ap- 
pointed one  of  the  delegates  to  represent  the  Association  at  the 
international  Pharmaceutical  Congress  to  assemble  in  Paris  in  the 
following  year. 
He  was  absent  from  the  annual  meetings  of  the  Association  but 
once  (while  in  Europe),  and  contributed  largely  to  the  interest  of  its 
Proceedings  by  answers  to  queries  which  he  had  accepted,  and  by  his 
volunteer  papers. 
Prof.  Procter  had  a  taste  for  rural  occupations,  and  in  1855  he 
purchased  property  at  Mt.  Holly,  with  a  view  to  afford  him  scope  for 
the  enjoyment  of  this  taste,  as  well  as  for  the  recreation  and  change 
which  his  health  demanded.  Additions  were  made  from  time  to  time 
to  the  original  purchase,  until  he  had  a  small  farm  of  about  sixty 
acres  under  his  control.  A  cottage  on  the  place  afforded  himself  and 
family  a  summer  retreat,  and  the  cultivation  of  choice  fruit  engaged 
his  personal  attention.  Many  happy  days  were  here  passed  ;  escaped 
from  the  routine  of  shop  and  desk,  the  exhilaration  of  out-door  exer- 
cise seemed  to  infuse  renewed  activity  of  mind,  and  to  call  back  the 
hilarity  of  early  years,  before  the  sterner  realities  of  life  had  drawn 
a  curtain  between  the  man  and  the  exterior  world. 
In  1859  he  lost  his  wife,  and  in  1864  was  married  to  Catharine, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Sally  Parry. 
In  1866  he  resigned  the  chair  of  Pharmacy,  and  was  succeeded 
by  Prof.  J.  M.  Maisch ;  an  interchange  of  professorships  was  after- 
wards effected  between  Profs.  Maisch  and  Parrish,  Prof.  Parrish  tak- 
ing the  chair  of  Pharmacy  and  Prof.  Maisch  that  of  Materia  Medica. 
Many  years  of  close  attention  to  his  varied  and  assiduous  duties 
rendered  a  season  of  relaxation  and  change  necessary.    In  the  sum- 
