^ugS,'i9iSm'}      Albert  Plaut.—An  Appreciation.  381 
At  various  periods  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Drug 
Markets,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Prevention  of  Adultera- 
tion, Fire  Insurance  and  Legislation,  and  chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Proprietary  Goods.  He  was  twice  chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Suits  against  Members,  and  -also  twice  a  vice-president  of  the 
association. 
Mr.  Plaut  was  prominently  identified  with  the  founding  of  the 
Metropolitan  Drug  Club  and  the  Druggists'  Supply  Corporation.  He 
was  an  active  member  of  the  New  York  Drug  and  Chemical  Club 
and  of  the  Drug  Trade  Section  of  the  New  York  Board  of  Trade  and 
Transportation,  of  which  he  was  elected  chairman  in  1903,  and  was 
also  a  director  of  the  general  board  for  more  than  fifteen  years. 
In  recent  years  he  was  vice-president  of  the  New  York  College 
of  Pharmacy,  having  been  a  trustee  of  the  institution  for  fifteen 
years,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  chairman  of  its  Committee  on 
Instruction.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Revision 
of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  being  elected  at  the  convention 
in  1910. 
In  1909  President  Taft  sent  him  as  government  delegate  and 
chemical  expert  to  the  Seventh  International  Congress  of  Applied 
Chemistry  in  London,  and  he  was  instrumental  in  obtaining  the  selec- 
tion of  New  York  City  as  the  meeting-place  for  the  Eighth  Congress 
of  Applied  Chemistry,  which  was  held  in  September,  1912. 
To  the  Princeton  Chemical  Club  Mr.  Plaut,  early  in  1912,  pre- 
sented an  endowment  fund  of  $5000  to  obtain  lecturers  on  chemical 
subjects  from  other  universities. 
In  April,  1914,  he  founded  the  Isaac  Plaut  Travelling  Pharma- 
ceutical Fellowship  in  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  as  a  tribute 
to  the  memory  of  his  father. 
As  an  indication  of  the  affection  and  regard  in  which  Mr.  Plaut 
was  held  by  all  who  had  relations  of  any  kind  with  him,  we  quote 
from  the  funeral  eulogy  delivered  by  Mr.  Edmond  E.  Wise : 
"  I  stand  here  to-day  at  the  bier  of  my  good  and  loyal  friend  to  pay  to  him 
the  last  tribute  of  respect.  An  inscrutable  Providence  saw  fit  to  remove  him 
in  the  fulness  of  his  strength,  when  he  was  beginning  to  enjoy  thoroughly  the 
fruits  of  his  past  achievements,  while  still  ambitious  to  strive  and  struggle  for 
greater  triumph.  Rebellion  against  fate  is  futile.  He  has  been  taken  away, 
and  all  that  is  left  to  us  is  to  be  thankful  that  we  who  honored  and  loved  him 
were  privileged  to  share  with  him  some  of  the  joys  of  his  life,  and  to  lighten 
some  of  its  burdens.    In  whatever  relation  of  life  that  we  saw  him,  he  was  a 
