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lengthy  historical  articles  in  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Journal. 
The  celebration  itself,  which  occurred  on  May  19th  and  20th,  was 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Literary  and  Philosophical  Society  of 
Manchester,  and  was  attended  by  representatives  from  chemical 
societies  of  many  countries.  In  connection  with  this  celebration 
Prof.  F.  W.  Clarke,  of  the  Smithsonian  Institute,  Washington,  D.  C.r 
delivered  the  Wilde  Lecture  on  "The  Atomic  Theory."  (Phar. 
Jour.,  1903,  page  759.) 
The  Liebig  Centenary . — The  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  birth 
of  Justus  von  Liebig,  on  May  12,  1903,  was  the  occasion  for  a  rather 
widespread  rejuvenation  of  interest  in  the  work  of  this  great  chemist. 
The  German  chemical  as  well  as  pharmaceutical  journals  devoted 
considerable  space  to  reviews  of  Liebig's  life  and  work.  Many  of 
the  biographical  notices  were  contributed  by  men  who  had  come  more 
or  less  intimately  in  contact  with  Liebig  and  were  therefore  able  to 
contribute  a  number  of  additional  personal  reminiscences  that,  it  is 
to  be  hoped,  will  be  gathered  together  in  some  form  of  memorial 
volume. 
Hoffmann  Medal,  instituted  by  the  German  Chemical  Association 
in  memory  of  the  German  chemist  A.  W.  von  Hoffmann,  to  distin- 
guished foreign  chemists,  was  awarded  for  the  first  time  on  May  5th, 
of  this  year,  to  Prof.  Henri  Moissan,  Paris,  for  his  investigations  into 
the  chemical  and  physical  properties  of  fluorine,  and  to  Prof.  W.. 
Ramsay,  London,  Eng.,  for  his  investigations  into  the  composition 
of  atmospheric  air. 
The  Hanbury  Medal  was  awarded  this  year  to  M.  Eugene  Collin,, 
of  Paris,  France,  for  the  prosecution  of  research  in  the  natural  his- 
tory of  drugs.    {Phar.  Jour.,  May  9,  1903,  page  659.) 
Rice  Memorial. — American  pharmacists  and  the  committee  on 
revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  have  honored  them- 
selves by  marking,  with  a  suitable  monument,  the  grave  of  the  late 
Charles  Rice,  in  Woodlawn  Cemetery,  New  York. 
The  unveiling  of  this  memorial  took  place  on  the  afternoon  of  July 
7f  19^3,  in  the  presence  of  representatives  of  the  Pharmacopoeia 
revision  committee  and  a  number  of  friends. 
The  monument  consists  ot  a  massive  granite  block,  on  a  suitable 
base,  and  is  fully  in  keeping  with  the  life  and  wishes  of  the  man  whose 
last  resting-place  it  is  to  mark.  On  a  panel  composing  the  front  of 
the  stone  is  the  following  legend: 
