5  5^  Meeting  of  Members  of  the  College.    { Am'£S™'$StTm' 
MINUTE  OF  MEETING  OF  MEMBERS  OF  THE 
COLLEGE. 
Philadelphia,  September  25,  1893. 
A  stated  meeting  was  held  this  day  at  4  P.M.,  in  the  Hall,  Charles  Bullock 
presiding.    Twenty-eight  members  were  present. 
Dr.  A.  W.  Miller,  Corresponding  Secretary,  announced  the  names  of  those 
who  had  responded  to  the  notification  of  their  elections  as  honorary  and  corre- 
sponding members,  respectively. 
Prof.  Trimble  reported,  verbally,  upon  the  proceedings  of  the  Am.  Pharm. 
Assoc.,  held  at  Chicago,  referring  particularly  to  the  labors  of  the  various 
sections,  and  the  interest  manifested. 
Prof.  Sadtler  reported  upon  the  Proceedings  of  the  Inter.  Pharm.  Congress, 
recently  assembled  in  Chicago  ;  this  general  statement  was  supplemented  by 
remarks  of  Prof.  Remington  upon  the  positive  international  character  of  this 
body,  embracing  from  this  county-  as  well  as  from  foreign  lands  representatives 
of  all  nationalities,  the  chief  interest  obviously  centering  in  the  formulation  of 
a  Universal  Pharmacopoeia. 
Dr.  A.  W.  Miller  presented  a  written  report  of  delegates  to  the  Pan  Am. 
Med.  Congress,  held  recently  at  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  President,  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  on  Memorials  of  Deceased  Mem- 
bers, announced  the  death  of  Edward  Hopper,  a  former  member  of  this  Col- 
lege, at  the  age  of  82.  Mr.  Krewson  announced  the  death  of  Thomas  Hoskins, 
a  graduate. 
The  President  spoke  in  eulogy  of  the  late  Prof.  John  M.  Maisch,  in  the  fol- 
lowing words  : 
"  The  Committee  on  Deceased  Members  have  the  painful  duty  to  announce  to 
this  College  the  decease  of  our  late  fellow-member  and  Senior  Professor,  John 
M.  Maisch,  on  the  10th  of  September,  after  prolonged  suffering,  from  a  malady 
which  was  beyond  the  reach  of  medical  skill. 
' '  I  scarcely  know  what  to  say  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  ;  your  own  thoughts 
will  anticipate  any  words  of  mine. 
"  There  are  occasions  in  the  history  of  institutions,  as  well  as  in  the  domestic 
circle,  when  death  spreads  a  dark  mantle  over  our  thoughts  of  temporal  affairs, 
and  a  heavy  cloud  obscures  the  future,  while  we  look  back  upon  the  past, 
illuminated  by  the  remembrance  of  the  life  which  has  ceased  after  the  work  of 
the  day  has  been  accomplished. 
l(The  Board  of  Trustees,  his  Associates  in  the  Faculty,  and  you  my  fellow- 
members,  feel  keenly  the  loss  which  we  have  sustained,  yet  with  our  sorrow 
should  be  mingled  the  remembrance  that  we  have  been  partakers  of  the  fruit 
of  the  labor  of  his  life,  benefits  which  will  be  a  lasting  memorial  of  his  ability 
and  devotion  to  the  purposes  and  interests  of  this  College. 
"To  few  are  given  the  various  attainments  possessed  by  Prof.  Maisch.  He 
was  devoted  to  the  department  of  Science  which  he  had  chosen  for  his 
special  work  ;  as  a  teacher  he  was  laborious  and  untiring  in  his  endeavor  to 
bring  before  his  classes  all  important  features  pertaining  to  Materia  Medica 
and  Botany,  and  while  an  instructor,  he  was  himself  a  diligent  student  during 
his  whole  life.  His  retentive  memory  was  an  encyclopedia  of  information, 
and  rarely  was  he  found  to  be  wanting  or  incorrect  in  his  information. 
