nSSSKT}  Editorials.  447 
The  resignation  of  Henry  Fisher  as  a  member  of  the  College  was  read, 
and  on  motion  accepted. 
The  following  members  were  elected  delegates  to  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  which  will  meet  in  Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin,  on  Tuesday,  August  26,  1884,  with  power  to  fill  all  vacancies 
which  may  occur  in  the  delegation,  viz.  :  Messrs.  Alonzo  Robbins,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. ;  Chas.  A.  Heinitsh,  Lancaster,  Pa. ;  Geo.  W.  Kennedy,  Potts- 
ville,  Pa.  ;  Gustavus  Pile,  Philadelphia,  Pa. ;  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Then  on  motion  adjourned. 
Wm.  J.  Jenks,  Secretary. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
Stathmetic  Estimation.— Mr.  Alfred  B.  Taylor  has  called  our  atten- 
tion to  his  article  bearing  the  above  title,  as  published  in  the  Proceedings 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  which  a  sentence  has  been 
so  changed  by  an  omission,  as  to  give  an  exactly  opposite  meaning  to  what 
was  intended.  On  referring  to  the  manuscript  we  observed  that  the  mis- 
take occurred  by  the  compositor  skipping  one  line.  The  sentence,  which 
refers  to  "  volumetric  analysis,"  is  printed  on  page  394  of  the  Proceedings, 
and  should  read  as  follows,  by  inserting  the  words  printed  in  Italics  :  "The 
name  does  not  appear  to  be  exactly  a  proper  one,  since  the  process  is  used 
not  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  the  ingredients  of  a  compound,  but  sim- 
ply to  determine  the  quantity  of  some  ingredient  already  known." 
The  S.  D.  Gross  Professorship  of  Pathological  Anatomy. — A 
movement  has  been  inaugurated  with  the  view  of  perpetuating  with  medi- 
cal education  the  name  of  the  eminent  American  surgeon  who  recently 
passed  away,  and  a  committee  has  been  formed  in  Philadelphia,  and  an 
auxiliary  committee  by  physicians  and  surgeons  residing  abroad,  as  well 
as  in  the  different  States  of  the  Union.  The  following  circular  explains  the 
object  in  view  : 
American  Surgery  has  had  no  better  exponent  than  Samuel  D.  Gross ; 
none  so  honored  abroad  and  at  home  by  institutions  of  learning;  none' 
more  revered  by  his  associates  and  his  pupils.  His  long  and  brilliant  pro- 
fessorial career  deserves  the  perpetuation  of  his  name  in  close  association 
with  medical  tuition. 
In  furtherance  of  this  object,  the  Alumni  Association  of  Jefferson  Medi- 
cal College  has  inaugurated  a  movement  to  secure,  in  some  medical  school, 
the  endowment  of  a  Memorial  Professorship,  to  be  designated  "  The  S.  IX 
Gross  Professorship  of  Pathological  Anatomy." 
The  profession  at  large,  the  personal  friends  of  the  late  Professor  Gross, 
and  others  interested  in  elevating  the  standard  of  medical  education,  are 
cordially  invited  by  the  undersigned  to  participate  in  this  graceful  recogni- 
tion of  conduct  and  services  which  have  largely  helped  to  establish°the  ' 
high  standard  of  excellence  to  which  Surgery  has  attained  throughout  the 
United  States,  and  served  so  much  to  dignify  the  repute  of  American 
Medicine. 
