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1      March,  1903. 
tions.  In  1848,  Mr.  Taylor  was  elected  an  active  member  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  from  that  time  to  his  death 
this  institution  was  always  foremost  in  his  ideas,  his  ideals  and  his 
work.  The  actual  amount  of  time  and  work  that  Mr.  Taylor  devoted 
to  advance  the  position  and  standing  of  this  college  will  never  be 
known,  and  consequently  can  never  be  adequately  appreciated.  He 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  the  same  year  that 
he  became  a  member  of  the  college.  Two  years  later  he  was  elected 
to  act  as  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  Mr.  Taylor  served  in 
this  capacity,  and  subsequently  as  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the 
College,  for  a  period  of  thirty-six  years. 
To  bring  to  mind  some  of  the  important  and  arduous  services 
that  he  rendered  this  institution,  it  is  but  necessary  to  recall  the  fact 
that  he  served  for  twenty-one  years  as  a  member  of  the  Publishing 
Committee  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy.  That  his  con- 
nection  with  the  Journal  was  not  one  of  empty  honor  is  evidenced 
from  the  very  complete  index  of  the  first  twenty  volumes,  the  work 
of  Mr.  Taylor,  that  appeared  in  1850. 
Mr.  Taylor  served  for  more  than  forty  years  as  a  member  of  the 
College  Pharmacopceial  Revision  Committee,  more  than  half  of  that 
time  as  chairman,  so  that  a  very  large  proportion  of  the  very  excel- 
lent work  that  this  committee  is  known  to  have  contributed  was 
directly  due  to  or  was  actually  done  by  him. 
An  enumeration  of  the  special  committees  on  which  he  served 
would  alone  fill  a  number  of  pages  of  this  Journal.  One  of  his  more 
important  services  in  this  connection  was  as  a  member  of  the  dele- 
gation sent  by  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  to  attend  the 
convention  of  colleges  in  New  York  in  1 851.  As  is  well  known,  it 
was  at  this  meeting  that  the  Association,  later  known  as  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association,  was  conceived  and  the  preliminary 
preparations  made  for  its  successful  beginning  at  Philadelphia  the 
following  year.  Mr.  Taylor  acted  as  secretary  of  this  preliminary 
meeting,  and  much  of  the  success  of  the  inaugural  meeting  in  Phila- 
delphia was  no  doubt  due  to  his  energy  in  securing  the  proper 
publicity  and  bringing  the  necessity  of  such  an  organization  to  the 
attention  of  such  as  would  be  likely  to  be  interested  in  it.  As  a 
member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Mr.  Taylor 
was  not  alone  active  in  that  he  attended  the  meetings,  but  he  also 
contributed  much  original  matter  of  sterling  worth  to  the  proceed- 
