Vv°XiP8?4A.RM'}    Memoir  of  Prof .  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.  527 
mer  of  1867  he  determined  to  take  a  trip  to  Europe.  Leaving  New 
York  by  steamer  in  April,  he  landed  at  Queenstown,  and  after  a 
hasty  run  through  Ireland  he  crossed  over  to  England,  and  proceeded 
to  London.  In  the  fortieth  volume  of  the  American  Journal  of  Phar- 
macy is  published  his  notes  of  travel,  containing  much  interesting 
information  to  the  intelligent  pharmacist ;  this  narrative  leaves  him 
at  Rome.  It  was  his  intention  to  have  continued  it,  as  many  pages 
of  manuscript  show ;  but  his  natural  diffidence  has  precluded  the 
readers  of  the  Journal  from  many  interesting  observations  by  an  ob- 
serving traveller.  The  practical  did  not  alone  engross  his  attention ; 
he  had  an  appreciation  for  natural  scenery,  and  a  mind  which  was 
moved  by  the  historical  associations  of  the  classic  lands  through  which 
he  journeyed.  Of  Rome  he  writes  :  "  How  useless  to  attempt  to  tell 
its  story,  to  depict  even  what  the  transient  traveller,  the  week's 
sojourner  has  seen  and  witnessed  of  this  grand  central  point  of  the 
nations,  this  stage  on  which  the  shifting  scenes  of  more  than  a  score 
of  centuries  have  been  enacted,  leaving  their  marks  indelibly  im- 
pressed. To  an  American,  where  all  is  of  yesterday,  these  foot-prints 
of  national  existence,  extending  unbroken  back  to  the  night  of  time, 
produce  a  profound  impression,  and  afford  an  ample  subject  for  med- 
itation, but  not  for  description." 
Leaving  Rome,  he  proceeded  by  way  of  Florence  and  Padua  to  Ven- 
ice. Of  Padua  he  writes,  "  Its  university  and  medical  school  are  yet 
celebrated;  we  had  no  opportunity  to  ascertain  whether  the  apothecary 
who  served  Romeo  has  a  representative  there,  but  we  doubt  not  such 
is  the  case.  We  have  seen  several  in  Italy  whose  shops  presented  a 
(  beggarly  '  account  of  empty  boxes."  From  Venice  we  follow  him 
into  Switzerland  and  to  many  of  the  cities  of  Germany,  as  far  east- 
ward as  Berlin  and  Dresden;  thence  into  Holland  and  Belgium. 
From  Brussels  he  crossed  over  to  England  and  visited  Manchester, 
Liverpool,  Glasgow,  Edinburgh  and  the  Scottish  Highlands.  Return- 
ing to  London,  he  again  crossed  the  channel  to  attend  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Congress  which  assembled  in  Paris,  to  which  he  was  a  del- 
egate from  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  At  the  close 
of  the  Congress  he  proceded  to  Liverpool  and  sailed  for  home  in 
September. 
The  business  at  Ninth  and  Lombard  streets  increased  with  the 
progress  of  the  city  in  that  direction,  and  rendered  necessary  more 
ample  accommodations.    The  first  enlargement  of  his  store  was  made 
