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f  Am.  Jocr.  Pharm. 
t     May  1,1873. 
Pharmacy,  more  in  accordance  with  his  inclination  and  habits,  continued  until 
his  decease  to  lecture  annually  to  increasingly  large  classes. 
Professor  Parrish  was  always  popular  with  the  students;  his  free  and  open 
manner,  the  interest  he  took  in  the  class  individually  and  collectively,  and, 
above  all,  his  good  delivery  as  a  speaker,  rendered  him  a  favorite  and  gave  him 
influence.  For  several  years  prior  to  his  death  other  engagements  had  trenched 
greatly  on  the  time  required  by  his  professorial  duties,  but  in  1871  he  was 
relieved  from  these,  and,  had  his  life  been  spared  to  continue  the  increased 
devotion  to  his  science  which  this  relief  had  promised,  there  is  no  doubt  that 
his  career  would  have  been  increasingly  useful  as  a  teacher  of  practical  phar- 
macy. 
Edward  Parrish  was  elected  a  member  of  this  College  in  1843.  became  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  in  March,  1845,  and  was  its  Secretary  from 
1845  to  1852.  In  1854  he  was  elected  to  the  Secretaryship  of  the  College,  and 
continued  in  that  office  until  he  entered  the  Faculty,  in  1864.  In  1847  he  was 
one  of  a  committee  of  fifteen  members  to  report  on  the  Pharmacopoeia  previous 
to  the  convention  of  1850,  and  in  1859  and  1869  he  acted  on  similar  committees 
previous  to  the  conventions  of  1860  and  1870.  He  was  also  a  delegate  to  the 
Pharmacopoeia  Convention  of  1860  for  Revising  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and  in 
1869  was  one  of  three  delegates  appointed  by  our  College  to  the  International 
Pharmaceutical  Congress  of  Paris,  but  was  not  able  to  attend.  In  1850  be 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  Publishing  Committee  of  the  College  and  con- 
tinued in  it  until  1870.  His  contributions  to  the  Journal  during  this  period 
were  about  forty  in  number,  and  embraced,  besides  papers  on  materia  medica 
and  pharmaceutical  preparations,  essays  of  a  biographical  and  historical  char- 
acter, notes  of  travel,  ethical  criticism,  and  reports  on  various  subjects.  Du- 
ring a  part  of  this  time  he  also  wrote  editorial  notes  and  criticisms  for  the  Drug- 
gists* Circular,  N.  Y. 
Prof.  Parrish  became  a  member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion at  its  first  meeting  in  Philadelphia,  in  1852,  was  elected  Recording  Secre- 
tary at  the  Boston  meeting,  in  1853,  First  Vice-President  in  1866,  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Association  at  the  meeting  of  1868.  He  acted  on  many  of  its 
committees,  assisted  in  the  revisions  of  the  Constitution  and  other  labor,  and, 
when  present,  always  took  an  active  part  in  the  discussions,  as  the  published 
minutes  give  evidence.  Quite  a  number  of  papers  and  reports,  scattered 
over  the  twenty  volumes  of  Proceedings,  mark  the  interest  he  manifested  in 
this  way  in  the  advancement  of  pharmacy. 
The  tendency  of  his  mind  may  be  seen  by  a  glance^at  the  papers— but  few 
are  on  physical  or  chemical  investigation,  the  greater  part  being  such  as  could 
be  written  by  reflection  and  study,  without  experiment.  His  ready  pen  was 
always  at  command  to  bring  together  in  order  the  results  of  reflection  and 
inquiry,  whether  these  related  to  the  ethics  of  pharmacy,  the  by-laws  of  the 
Association,  or  the  advantages  of  education,  general  or  special.  Moreover, 
though  not  himself  possessed  of  an  inventive  genius,  he  delighted  in  new  inven- 
tions or  improvements  in  pharmacy,  and  was  always  ready  to  encourage  their 
authors,  and  to  be  the  means  of  spreading  a  knowledge  of  them  by  tongue  or 
pen. 
