550  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.     { *^£X£ 
owner  of  the  Polnische  Apotheke,  in  which  he  had  an  interest  until 
1894,  when  he  in  turn  handed  the  business  over  to  his  son.  He  was 
not  only  a  practical  druggist  but  was  known  for  his  original  investi- 
gations on  pharmaceutical  subjects. 
Dr.  John  Bley,  who  died  on  August  22,  1905,  at  Los  Angeles, 
was  a  life  member  of  the  college,  having  joined  in  1868. 
Robert  C.  Brodie,  who  died  on  January  4,  1906,  in  this  city,  was 
eighty-one  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  college  in  1845,  an(^  nacl  therefore  been  a  member 
for  sixty  years,  there  having  been  few  members  who  were  connected 
with  the  college  for  a  longer  period  than  he.  Mr.  Brodie  was  in  the 
drug  business  fifty-six  years,  retiring  from  business  in  1903.  For 
many  years  he  was  treasurer  of  the  Philadelphia  Wholesale  Drug 
Company,  and  served  St.  Alban  Lodge,  No.  529,  F.  A.  M.,  in  the 
same  capacity  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  the  father-in-law  of 
our  late  Registrar,  W.  Nelson  Stem. 
Dr.  Joseph  P.  Bolton  died  on  February  24,  1906.  He  graduated 
from  the  college  in  i860  and  became  a  member  in  1867.  He  was  a 
graduate  of  Jefferson  Medical  College,  in  which  institution  at  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  demonstrator  of  chemistry,  and  also 
assistant  neurologist  at  the  Jefferson  Hospital.  He  resided  in  Ger- 
mantown,  where  he  had  conducted  a  drug  store  for  a  number  of 
years. 
Henry  Cramer,  of  Germantown,  who  died  on  July  28,  1905,  be- 
came a  member  of  the  college  in  1866.  He  was  of  German  birth 
and  was  not  a  graduate  of  the  college.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Cramer  &  Small,  at  320  Race  Street. 
He  was  much  interested  in  the  work  of  the  college  and  sent  a  com- 
munication to  the  Procter  Memorial  meeting,  held  November  15, 
1905,  which  was  a  beautiful  tribute  to  Professor  Procter. 
Edward  Tonkin  Dobbins  died  at  the  University  Hospital  on  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1906,  as  the  result  of  a  fall  in  the  street  near  his  home. 
Mr.  Dobbins  was  born  at  Pemberton,  N.  J.,  May  29,  1 841.  He 
graduated  from  the  college  in  1862,  became  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Pharmaceutical  Association  in  1867,  and  of  the  college  in  1898, 
being  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  in  the  succeeding 
year.  His  will  provided  for  the  establishment  of  a  scholarship  in 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  to  be  known  by  his  name. 
Mr.  Dobbins  first  started  in  the  drug  business  as  an  apprentice  with 
