938  News  Items  and  Personal  Notes.  [^'^T>Jclmhe^!'i9To. 
Surgeon-General  of  the  U.  S.  Navy  to  succeed  Surgeon-General 
W.  C.  Braisted.  Dr.  Stitt  graduated  in  Medicine  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  in  1889  and  the  same  year  entered  the  naval 
service  as  an  assistant  surgeon.  He  has  been  associated  with  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College  of  Philadelphia  as  a  lecturer  since  1907. 
For  some  years  his  navy  activities  have  been  in  the  training  of 
the  medical  officers  entering  the  service  and  in  directing  the  Navy 
laboratory  and  recently  he  has  been,  in  command  of  the  Naval  Med- 
ical School  and  he  was  one  of  the  physicians  called  in  consultation 
during  President  Wilson's  serious  illness.  In  191 7  he  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Rear- Admiral. 
Before  entering  upon  the  study  of  medicine,  Dr.  Stitt  studied 
pharmacy  and  was  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  in  1887.  He  was  accredited  as  a  student  from  North 
Carolina.  His  thesis  was  upon  the  subject  of  Caffeine.  At  the 
annual  commencement  of  that  year  he  was  awarded  the  John  M. 
Maisch  prize  of  $20.00  in  gold  offered  by  Mr.  J.  H.  Redsecker,  of 
Lebanon,  Pa.,  for  histological  knowledge  of  drugs. 
Dr.  Stitt  was  a  delegate  to  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeial  Convention 
held  in  Washington  in  May  last  and  was  selected  as  a  member  of 
the  Committee  of  Revision  for  the  Tenth  Revision  now  in  prepara- 
tion. The  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  extends  congratula- 
tions 'to  Surgeon-General  Stitt  and  looks  forward  to  a  record  of 
accomplishments  of  the  Department  under  his  command.  It  is 
sincerely  hoped  that  he  will  have  as  kindly  interest  in  the  welfare 
of  the  pharmacists  in  the  Navy  as  was  demonstrated  by  his  pred- 
ecessor. 
H.  K.  MuLFORD  Company  in  Ne;w  Quarters. — The  H.  K. 
Mulford  Company  have  removed  to  their  new  home  in  the  Mulford 
Building,  632-640  North  Broad  Street,  Philadelphia.  The  executive 
offices  and  the  pharmaceutical  laboratories  will  be  housed  under  one 
roof,  the  new  building  being  nine  stories  in  height  and  having  nearly 
ten  acres  of  floor  space.  Modern  equipment  and  the  best  arrange- 
ment to  facilitate  the  various  steps  in  the  manufacture  of  pharma- 
ceuticals from  the  crude  drugs  to  the  finished  products  have  been 
established. 
New  Buildings  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy. 
The  new  buildings  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy  on 
Linwood  Avenue,  Boston  were  thrown  open  to  the  inspection  of 
pharmacists  and  their  friends  on  Wednesday  evening,  December  ist. 
