AmiuSJ9ho!!;m'}  John  Michael  Maisch.  359 
nation  had  been  laid  on  the  table,  and  that  the  annual  dues  con- 
nected with  active  membership  had,  on  motion,  been  remitted  for 
the  time.  On  his  return  from  New  York,  and  while  engaged  at  the 
Army  Laboratory,  Professor  Maisch  again  entered  actively  in  the 
work  of  the  Philadelphia  College. 
After  the  close  of  the  Civil  War,  the  Army  Medical  Laboratory  in 
Philadelphia  was  discontinued.  Professor  Maisch  then  opened  a 
store  at  1607  Ridge  Avenue,  Philadelphia.  In  the  same  year,  1866, 
he  was  elected  to  succeed  Prof.  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  in  the  chair  of 
pharmacy  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  In  the  follow- 
ing year,  1867,  with  the  sanction  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  he 
exchanged  chairs  with  Prof.  Edward  Parrish,  who  was  teaching 
materia  medica  at  that  time.  This  latter  branch  was  subsequently 
enlarged  so  as  to  include  botany. 
In  this  field,  as  professor  ofjnateria  medica  and  botany,  Professor 
Maisch  continued  for  twenty-six  years,  striving  earnestly  to  incul- 
cate such  rudiments  of  the  science  as  would  be  most  practical  to  the 
prospective  pharmacists.  How  successful  he  was  is  best  evidenced 
by  the  hundreds  of  his  former  students  who  have  courted  success  by 
putting  the  knowledge  obtained  from  him  to  practical  uses. 
When,  in  1870,  the  Alumni  Association  decided  to  open  the 
laboratory  of  practical  chemistry  and  pharmacy,  Professor  Maisch 
was  selected  as  the  proper  person  to  inaugurate  the  new  laboratory 
and  to  direct  it.  The  difficulties  which  he  had  to  overcome  in  this 
direction  are  indicated  in  his  report  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Alumni 
Association  in  1872.    (Eighth  Annual  Alumni  Report.) 
When  Professor  Procter  decided  that  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy  should  be  published  more  frequently,  and  that  his  advanc- 
ing years  necessitated  his  retirement  from  the  active  direction  of  the 
editorial  management,  he  nominated  as  his  logical  successor  the 
occupant  of  the  chair  of  materia  medica  and  pharmacy. 
This  position,  as  editor  of  what  was  now  a  monthly  publication, 
Professor  Maisch  filled  for  twenty-two  years,  to  the  satisfaction  of 
officers  of  the  college  and  to  the  material  advantage  of  the  contribu- 
tors as  well  as  subscribers  of  the  Journal. 
As  noted  before,  Professor  Maisch  as  a  young  man  had  joined  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  1856.  He  was  quite  a 
regular  attendant  at  the  meetings  and  a  liberal  contributor  to  the 
proceedings.    He  was  elected  corresponding  secretary  at  the  Phila- 
