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John  Michael  Maisch. 
I  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I      August,  1903. 
ciation,  or  as  a  member  of  a  special  or  standing  committee,  he  always 
managed  to  give  the  necessary  work  close  and  personal  attention. 
It  would  be  surprising,  indeed,  if  as  a  result  of  the  gigantic 
amount  of  original  work  which  he  was  able  to  accomplish,  and  did 
accomplish,  he  should  not  receive  some  material  recognition  of  its 
value.  That  this  recognition  was  meted  out  to  him  is  evidenced  by 
the  list  of  honorary  memberships  in  pharmaceutical  or  in  scientific 
societies  that  is  appended. 
The  one  recognition  that  must  have  pleased  Professor  Maisch 
greatly,  and  the  one  that  came  as  a  fitting  close  to  his  eventful  and 
active  life,  was  the  presentation  of  the  Hanbury  gold  medal  for 
original  research  in  the  natural  history  and  chemistry  of  drugs. 
This  tribute,  coming  as  it  did  on  what  was  practically  the  eve  of 
his  death,  has  to  us  a  particularly  pathetic  interest.  It  was 
brought  to  this  country  by  Mr.  Michael  Carteighe,  the  then  Presi- 
dent of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  who  had 
expected  to  present  the  same  to  Professor  Maisch  at  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  at  Chicago,  in 
1893.  The  letter  accompanying  the  medal,  a  reproduction  of  which 
is  appended,  fully  explains  the  origin  and  significance  of  this  award. 
The  earlier  recipients  of  the  medal  were :  Fliickiger,  Dragendorff, 
John  Elliot  Howard,  Dymock,  Planchon  and  Hesse.  This  was 
the  first,  and  so  far  the  only,  time  it  had  been  awarded  to  an 
American. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain. 
17  Bloomsbury  Square. 
London,  August  3,  1893. 
Prof.  John.  M.  Maisch. 
Dear  Sir:— I  have  the  pleasure  to  inform  you  that  the  adjudicators  appointed 
under  the  deed  of  settlement  of  the  Hanbury  Memorial  Fund  have  awarded 
the  Gold  Medal  to  you. 
The  fund,  as  you  may  be  aware,  was  raised  to  establish  a  memorial  to  Daniel 
Hanbury,  the  memorial  taking  the  form  of  a  gold  medal,  which  is  awarded 
biennially  for  the  prosecution  or  promotion  of  research  in  the  chemistry  and 
natural  history  of  drugs. 
The  adjudicators  of  this  award  to  you  are  the  President  of  the  Linnean 
Society,  President  of  the  Chemical  Society,  the  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society,  the  President  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference,  and  Mr. 
Francis  Ransom,  a  pharmaceutical  chemist  who  was,  prior  to  the  award,  nomi- 
nated by  the  last  named  two  presidents. 
I  am,  yours  faithfully, 
Richard  Bremridge,  Secretary. 
