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Notes  and  News. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharo  . 
I      August,  1906. 
E.  F.  W.  Garber 
Samuel  B.  Kirk 
F.  F.  Muller  .  . 
$  3  oo     Frank  X.  Moerk  . 
io  oo     Charles  B.  Fricke 
2  50     C.  W.  Hancock  . 
$10  00 
3  00 
10  00 
W.  C.  McPike,  a  member  of  the  Kansas  Pharmaceutical  Association,  has 
contributed  $ro.oo  through  Prof.  L.  E.  Sayre. 
Charges  H.  LaWaw,,  Instructor  in  Theory  and  Practice  of  Pharmacy,  has 
been  made  Associate  Professor  of  Pharmacy  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy.  He  will  give  lectures  in  inorganic  and  organic  pharmacy  to  the 
students  of  the  second-year  class.  Professor  LaWall  has  acted  in  the  capacity 
of  Instructor  in  Pharmacy  since  October,  1900.  A  few  years  ago  he  became 
associated  with  Professor  Henry  Leffmann  in  general  analytical  work.  He  has 
succeeded  Dr.  Leffmann  in  the  ownership  of  the  laboratory  and  in  many 
details  of  the  work  and  during  the  past  two  years  has  done  much  work  in 
food  adulteration,  being  frequently  called  upon  to  testify  for  the  State  Food 
and  Dairy  Commission  as  well  as  for  others.  He  has  been  a  frequent  contrib- 
utor to  pharmaceutical  and  chemical  literature  and  has  written  a  number  of 
papers  on  the  detection  of  adulterations  in  foods  and  drugs. 
A  Collection  of  Plant  Constituents,  including  alkaloids,  glucosides, 
amaroids,  sugars,  starches,  plant  acids,  coloring  principles,  fats,  waxes,  and 
some  rare  aromatic  principles,  has  been  presented  to  the  New  York  botanical 
garden  by  E.  Merck  &  Co.,  of  Darmstadt  and  New  York.  The  number  of 
exhibits  is  between  400  and  500,  comprising  not  only  the  most  active  medicinal 
principles,  and  other  things  for  which  uses  are  now  known,  but  many  things 
extracted  from  plants  only  experimentally,  for  scientific  purposes,  for  which  it 
is  hoped  uses  may  be  developed  in  the  future. 
Jacob  Diner,  Secretary  of  the  Metropolitan  Association  of  Retail  Druggists, 
of  Greater  New  York,  has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the  National  Executive 
Committee  of  the  N.A.R.D.,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation  of 
Thomas  Vogeli  of  Minneapolis.  Mr.  Diner  has  shown  himself  to  be  alert  as 
to  the  present  needs  in  pharmacy  and  in  his  new  office  he  will  have  a  chance  to 
give  his  abilities  wider  scope. 
Arne  Oldberg,  son  of  Prof.  Oscar  Oldberg,  and  Professor  of  Music  in 
Northwestern  University,  is  engaged  in  composing  the  orchestral  parts  of  an 
overture  and  completing  the  score  of  a  symphony.  A  recently  written  theme 
and  variations  for  full  orchestra  by  Prof.  Oldberg  will  be  performed  by  the  Theo- 
dore Thomas  Orchestra  next  season. 
