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Personal. 
( Am.  Jour.  Phai  m. 
1     October,  1899. 
PERSONAL. 
Albert  Benjamiu  Prescott,  President-elect  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  is  best  known  as  an  author  and  investigator  in  chemistry  and  an 
educator  in  pharmacy.  He  was  born  in  Hastings,  N.  Y.,  December  12,  1832. 
He  studied  both  medicine  and  chemistry  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  and  in 
1864  entered  the  medical  service  of  the  army,  commissioned  as  assistant  sur- 
geon in  the  general  corps,  known  as  the  United  States  Volunteers.    He  was 
Al.BKRT  BKNJAMIN  PRESCOTT. 
assigned  to  duty  on  the  Board  of  Examination  for  contract  surgeons,  and  was 
surgeon-in-charge  of  Foundry  General  Hospital,  Uouisville,  Ky.  In  1865  he 
entered  upon  college  teaching,  in  which  he  has  been  engaged  up  to  the 
present.  From  the  organization  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of  the  University 
of  Michigan,  in  1868,  he  was  an  active  promoter  of  laboratory  methods  in  phar- 
