Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1906. 
The  Procter  Memorial. 
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THE  PROCTER  MEMORIAL. 
If  any  one  should  feel  doubtful  about  the  success  of  the  Procter 
Monument  let  him  be  assured  that  the  idea  of  the  monument  did 
not  spring  up  in  a  day,  but  that  it  is  the  result  of  discussion  and 
thought,  and  that  it  is  already  firmly  fixed  in  the  minds  of  a  large 
number  of  American  pharmacists.  As  stated  by  Professor  Hall- 
berg  in  the  May  number  of  the  Bulletin  of  the  American  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association,  the  monument  is  an  assured  fact. 
It  now  remains  to  set  about  collecting  the  funds  in  a  systematic 
manner,  and  in  order  that  this  part  of  the  work  may  not  drag  over 
too  long  a  period,  it  is  urged  that  every  pharmaceutical  organization 
in  the  country,  including  the  State  pharmaceutical  associations,  the 
colleges  and  schools  of  pharmacy,  local  pharmaceutical  associations, 
the  National  Association  of  Wholesale  Druggists  and  the  National 
Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  appoint  committees  for  collecting 
funds  from  their  respective  members.  It  is  hoped  that  by  such 
concerted  action  the  Committee  on  Procter  Monument  will  be  able 
to  make  a  report  at  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  at  Indianapolis  in  September,  which  will  reflect  credit 
not  only  on  the  organizations  named,  but  which  will  likewise  stand 
to  the  credit  of  the  individual  members  of  the  pharmaceutical  call- 
ing in  America. 
The  following  circular  letter  has  been  issued  by  the  Committee  : — 
TO  THE  PHARMACISTS  AND  DRUGGISTS  OF  AMERICA  AND  WHOMSOEVER 
ELSE  THIS  MAY  INTEREST. 
Greeting: — At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  in  1899 — after  the  reading  of  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  the  Semi-Centennial  Celebration,  Albert  E.  Ebert,  of 
Chicago,  made  the  following  remarks :  "  If  that  committee  is  to  be 
continued,  I  would  like  to  draw  their  attention  to  one  feature.  One 
of  the  founders  of  this  Association,  and  the  father  of  American 
Pharmacy,  William  Procter,  Jr.,  is  seemingly  forgotten.  It  seems  to 
me,  without  saying  anything  against  the  other  men  who  have  lived 
and  worked  for  the  advancement  of  pharmacy  and  this  association, 
that  it  is  possible  for  this  association  at  the  time  of  our  fiftieth  anni- 
versary to  do  something  to  commemorate  his  valuable  work ;  it 
would  be  a  grand  thing  for  the  association.    There  has  been  no 
