360  John  Michael  Maisch.  {Am^|usiPimm' 
delphia  meeting  in  1862,  first  vice-president  at  Baltimore  in  1863, 
and  in  1865,  when  he  attended  the  meeting  at  Boston  as  one  of  the 
delegates  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  he  was  elected 
permanent  secretary,  which  position  he  filled  uninterruptedly  to  the 
time  of  his  death,  never  missing  a  meeting  until  1893,  when  failing 
health  prevented  his  attendance. 
His  services  for  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  are 
amply  evidenced  in  the  twenty-seven  volumes  of  the  proceedings 
that  were  published  under  his  direct  supervision,  and  to  which  he 
not  only  contributed  a  large  number  of  original  articles  and  the 
regular  and  very  complete  annual  reports  of  the  permanent  secre- 
tary, but  his  name  also  appears  more  frequently  than  any  other 
among  those  that  took  an  active  part  in  the  discussions  of  the  vari- 
ous papers. 
When,  in  1870,  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  elected 
delegates  to  the  decennial  convention  for  the  revision  of  the  Phar- 
macopoeia, John  M.  Maisch,  with  Wm.  Procter,  Jr.,  and  Alfred  B. 
Taylor,  were  selected  to  represent  the  College.  John  M.  Maisch 
and  Alfred  B.  Taylor  were  subsequently  elected  to  serve  on  the 
revision  committee,  Professor  Maisch  serving  through  three  decen- 
nial revisions. 
This  then  brings  us  up  to  the  period  of  his  most  active  work.  A 
review  of  the  number  of  official  occupations  will  give  us  a  fair  idea 
of  the  amount  and  variety  of  work  he  was  able  to  accomplish  regu- 
larly and  uninterruptedly  for  more  than  twenty  years. 
We  should,  however,  mention  that  again  in  1870,  at  the  sugges- 
tion of  Professor  Maisch,  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
decided  to  reinaugurate  the  system  of  monthly  pharmaceutical 
meetings  that  had  been  allowed  to  lapse  during  the  exciting  days  of 
the  Civil  War.  These  meetings  were  under  the  special  patronage 
of  Professor  Maisch,  who  was  a  regular  attendant,  a  liberal  contribu- 
tor and,  what  is  more,  was  always  on  the  outlook  for  new  and  orig- 
inal material  from  various  sources. 
In  addition  to  the  work  in  connection  with  these  meetings,  then, 
it  will  be  remembered  that  Professor  Maisch,  during  the  same 
period,  occupied  the  chair  of  materia  medica  and  botany  in  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy;  was  editor  and  a  liberal  contribu- 
tor to  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy;  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy;  was 
