Am.  Jour.  Pharm.1 
December,  1903.  1 
Obituary. 
587 
On  motion  of  Mr.  E.  McC.  Boring,  a  vote  of  thanks  was  ten- 
dered Dr.  True  for  his  interesting  and  instructive  address. 
George  B.  Weidemann,  P.D.,  son  of  Dr.  Chas.  A.  Weidemann, 
demonstrated  a  method  of  making  tablets  on  a*  small  scale,  using  a 
hand  machine.  He  said  that  he  uses  a  Stokes  machine,  which  has 
the  advantage  of  making  one  revolution  for  each  tablet.  He  also 
remarked  that,  not  considering  the  question  of  time,  it  is  more  eco- 
nomical for  the  pharmacist  to  make  this  class  of  preparations  than 
to  buy  them  of  the  wholesale  manufacturer. 
The  following  provisional  program  has  been  arranged  for  the 
next  meeting,  on  December  15th  : 
Prof.  John  Uri  Lloyd — An  address  on  the  Eclectic  Resinoids  and 
their  Terminology. 
Prof.  Albert  Schneider — Medicinal  Plants  in  Botanic  Gardens. 
Gustavus  Pile — The  Manufacture  of  Thermometers. 
Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tern. 
OBITUARY. 
WILLIAM  M.  WARREN. 
William  M.  Warren,  general  manager  of  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.,  died 
at  his  home,  154  Lafayette  Avenue,  Detroit,  Mich.,  on  November 
nth,  of  cerebro-spinal  meningitis. 
Mr.  Warren  was  but  thirty-nine  years  old,  and  his  rather  sudden 
taking  off  right  in  the  prime  of  life  and  when  he  had  barely  reached 
the  meridian  splendor  of  a  really  remarkable  career,  makes  his  death 
a  peculiarly  sad  one. 
Mr.  Warren  was  a  Southerner  by  birth,  his  father  having  been 
the  late  Major  Archibald  Warren,  of  the  Confederate  Army.  At 
the  age  of  seventeen  he  entered  the  employ  of  Parke,  Davis  &  Co.'s 
branch  house  in  New  York,  his  parents  having  meanwhile  moved 
North.  He  rose  rapidly  in  the  estimation  of  the  firm,  and  in  1886 
was  called  to  their  headquarters  in  Detroit,  where,  after  successive 
promotions,  he  became  general  manager  in  1896. 
During  these  seven  years  of  management  the  firm  has  not  only 
encircled  the  globe  in  their  establishment  of  new  branches,  but  have 
made  their  foundations  more  secure,  by  the  development  of  a  rather 
