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Personal  Notes, 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I     October,  1903. 
PERSONAL  NOTES. 
Charles  Edward  Caspari  has  been  elected  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the 
St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy.  He  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  and 
received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  that  city.  In  1893  he 
entered  the  Johns  Hopkins  University,  and  in  1896  received  the  degree  of  B.A. 
Continuing  the  study  of  chemistry  under  the  guidance  of  Professor  Remsen,  he 
took  four  years  of  post-graduate  work  at  Johns  Hopkins,  and  in  June,  1900,  he 
received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  During  his  last  year  at  the  University  he  was 
Professor  Remsen's  assistant.  From  1900  to  1901  he  taught  organic  chemistry 
at  Columbia  University,  New  York  City.  In  September,  1901,  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Mallinckrodt  Chemical  Works,  of  St.  Louis,  where  he  has  since 
been  active  in  research  work  and  directing  their  analytical  department. 
Albert  Schneider  has  been  elected  Professor  of  Botany,  Materia  Medica, 
etc.,  in  the  California  College  of  Pharmacy  (University  of  California),  to  suc- 
ceed the  late  Professor  J.  J.  B.  Argenti.  Dr.  Schneider  had  been  for  five  years 
a  professor  in  Northwestern  University,  and  is  the  author  of  several  works  on 
botany. 
Raymond  H.  Pond  succeeds  Dr.  Schneider  as  Professor  of  Botany  and 
Pharmacognosy  in  Northwestern  University.  He  was  born  in  Topeka,  Kan., 
in  May,  1875.  He  graduated  at  the  Kansas  Agricultural  College,  receiving  the 
degree  of  B.S.  in  1898  and  M.S.  in  1899.  He  studied  and  pursued  research 
work  at  the  University  of  Michigan  three  years  and  received  the  degree  of 
Ph.D.  in  1902.  He  has  had  several  years'  experience  as  a  teacher  and  has 
devoted  most  of  his  time  to  botany  and  chemistry. 
Walter  Bryan,  Assistant  Professor  of  Materia  Medica,  Botany  and  Phar- 
macognosy in  the  Brooklyn  College  of  Pharmacy,  has  been  chosen  to  fill  the 
chair  of  Professor  of  Toxicology,  Physiology  and  Hygiene  in  the  same  institu- 
tion, made  vacant  by  the  resignation  of  Dr.  Albert  H.  Brundage,  as  well.  Dr. 
Bryan  has  been  doing  some  special  work  in  physiology  during  the  summer 
under  Professor  Loeb,  at  the  Marine  Biological  Laboratory,  Wood's  Holl,  Mass. 
W.  L.  CliEEE  has  been  appointed  by  the  Governor  of  Pennsylvania  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  to  succeed  H.  E.  Porter,  of  Tonawanda,  whose 
term  expired. 
Charges  S.  Erb  has  been  selected  to  fill  the  vacancy  in  the  Eastern  branch 
of  the  New  York  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Sidney 
Faber. 
Herbert  J.  Watson  has  been  appointed  instructor  in  botany  and  pharma- 
cognosy at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  Mr.  Watson  is  a  graduate 
of  the  College,  and  since  his  graduation  has  been  associated  with  Professor 
Frederick  K.  Chester,  of  the  Delaware  State]Board  of  Health. 
Jacob  S.  Beetem  has  been  chosen  Registrar  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy.  Mr.  Beetem  graduated  from  the  College  in  1878,  and  has  been 
more  or  less  identified  with  it  since  that  time,  having  been  President  of  the 
Alumni  Association  in  1895.  For  a  number  of  years  past  he  has  been  actively 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  at  Wilmington,  Del. 
