542  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy.      { ^vSe^S' 
for  the  prescribing  pharmacist.  Dr.  Rice  has  done  more  to  bring 
together  the  profession  of  medicine  and  pharmacy  than  almost  any 
other  person  I  could  name — perhaps  more  than  any  other  person  I 
could  name.  He  has  set  an  example  by  his  learning,  industry  and 
medical  temper,  to  the  investigating  physician.  Who  could  imagine 
that  out  of  that  drugroom  at  Bellevue  Hospital,  its  chief  over- 
whelmed with  routine  work  in  looking  after  the  medical  supplies  of 
the  enormous  Department  of  Charities  and  Correction,  and  even  of 
the  Charities  alone, — who  could  realize  that  a  man  to  whom  the  ordi- 
nary toil  of  his  work  would  prove  beyond  all  his  powers,  could 
devote  so  much  time  to  a  work  so  thoroughly  altruistic  as  phar- 
macy, who  was  always  ready  to  aid  any  chance  student  or  any  one 
that  came  to  him,  and  was  able  to  keep  up  his  own  linguistic  studies- 
Work  nowadays  dees  not  come  from  isolation  in  a  desert.  The 
results  of  the  work  that  Charles  Rice  did,  tell  us  that  he  must  have 
taken  from  his  strength  and  sacrificed  much  of  his  time,  which 
should  have  been  devoted  to  rest,  for  the  benefit  of  humanity. 
Medicine  stands  to-day  the  better,  the  more  useful,  the  more  scien- 
tific because  of  the  life  and  labors  of  Charles  Rice,  and  when  phar- 
macy and  medicine,  which  go  hand  in  hand,  as  they  are  beginning 
to  do,  and  shall  be  more  and  more  necessary  each  to  the  other,  the 
result  which  Dr.  Rice  did  so  much  to  bring  about  will  be  always 
associated  with  the  man  whose  memory  we  meet  to-night  to  honor, 
whose  professional  attainment  and  personal  friendship  are  so  dear  to 
each  and  every  one  of  us." 
Mr.  Felix  Hirseman,  on  behalf  of  the  New  York  German  Apothe- 
caries' Society,  spoke  as  follows: 
"  Mr.  President,  Fellow  Trustees  and  Members  of  the  Fraternity: 
I  esteem  it  an  honor  and  a  privilege  to  speak  in  behalf  of  the  Ger- 
man Apothecaries'  Association  of  the  City  of  New  York,  of  so  high 
and  distinguished  a  man  who  was  an  honorary  member  for  many 
years  in  our  society,  and  although  it  was  not  my  privilege  to  have 
been  much  in  association  with  the  lamented,  still  I  recognize  with 
the  poet  that  the  deeds  that  men  do  live  after  them ;  and  no  doubt 
the  deeds  of  Dr.  Charles  Rice  have  made  their  impression  upon  the 
pharmaceutical  world  ;  in  fact,  not  only  in  this  nation,  but  univer. 
sally.  I  approached  the  doors,  to-night,  of  our  Institution  and  saw 
covered  by  the  Stars  and  Stripes  the  medallion  of  Dr.  Rice,  and  it 
occurred  to  me  what  a  fit  place  that  medallion  held  in  these  walls. 
