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July,  1911. 
was  supposed  to  know  everybody  of  any  account  in  his  section,  and 
that  the  public  found  this  generally  to  be  true.  I  am  sure  that 
even  to-day  if  one  wishes  to  ascertain  the  residence  of  a  person  his 
first  inquiry  would  be  at  the  nearest  drug  store.  Mr.  Keeney  saw 
many  changes  in  his  immediate  section ;  the  old  families  vanished 
and  new  people  came  into  the  neighborhood.  Other  stores  at  times 
came  into  existence  near  him,  but  nothing  could  impair  the  confidence 
reposed  in  him  and  his  store  by  his  neighbors  and  the  medical  pro- 
fession. There  is  not  a  store  in  Philadelphia  to-day  where  legitimate 
pharmacy  is  more  in  evidence  than  in  the  old  store  of  Mr.  Keeney. 
Living  for  a  time  near  him  and  frequently  dropping  in  I  do  not 
remember  seeing  a  proprietary  or  many  of  those  other  rather  incon- 
sistent items  that  most  stores  display. 
Mr.  Keeney  graduated  from  our  College  in  the  class  of  1846 
and  was  at  the  time  of  his  death  the  oldest  living  graduate.  In  the 
same  class  was  the  late  Thomas  S.  Wiegand.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  College  and  for  many  years  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association.  Of  quiet  tastes  he  w^on  the  esteem  of  all  who  were 
brought  into  contact  with  him,  and  it  is  gratifying  to  know  that  the 
pharmacy  will  no  doubt  be  carried  on  in  the  same  lines  by  his 
son,  who  has  been  with  him  for  35  years.  He  died  February  i, 
191 1,  in  his  eighty-sixth  year,  after  a  short  illness.    He  leaves  a  son 
E.  T.  Ellis. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETINGS. 
March  meeeting. — The  sixth  of  the  pharmaceutical  meetings 
was  held  on  March  15,  with  W.  L.  ClifTe  in  the  chair.  At  this 
meeting,  two  papers  were  read,  treating  of  the  subject  of  petrox 
preparations.  The  first  of  these  papers  was  by  Mr.  Geo.  M. 
Beringer,  Ph.M.,  and  George  M.  Beringer,  Jr.,  P.D.  This  paper 
is  the  result  of  a  rather  extensive  series  of  experiments  which  have 
been  carried  out  by  the  authors  in  order  to  recommend  the  most 
satisfactory  formulae  for  the  petrox  preparations  of  the  National 
Formulary.  A  large  number  of  preparations  were  shown  and  the 
entire  paper  is  published  in  the  May  issue  of  this  Journal. 
The  paper  by  Mr.  Raubenheimer  is  also  published  in  this  issue 
and  was  in  the  nature  of  a  supplementary  work  to  that  of  the  pre- 
