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William  B.  Webb,  corner  of  Tenth  and  Spring  Garden  Streets,  and 
entered  the  employ  of  John  Wyeth  the  year  of  his  graduation, 
first  in  the  retail  department ;  later  he  entered  the  manufacturing 
department.  He  then  became  a  member  of  the  firm  and  was  for  a 
number  of  years  second  vice-president  of  the  firm,  but  for  some 
years  past  had  not  been  active  in  its  management.  He  was  one 
of  the  early  members  of  the  Union  League,  Philadelphia ;  was 
a  member  of  the  Colonial  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  the  Sons  of  the 
Revolution,  and  of  the  Country  Club.  He  was  interred  at  St. 
Andrew's  Churchyard,  Mt.  Holly,  N.  J.,  near  the  chapel  there,  which 
was  erected  by  his  family  as  a  memorial  chapel  some  years  ago,  in 
1879.  Mr.  Dobbins  was  a  man  of  great  integrity,  always  ready  to 
help  those  in  need,  and  his  kindly  assistance  will  be  missed  by  many. 
Louis  Koch  died  on  February  24,  1906.  He  joined  the  college 
and  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  1872,  and  though 
not  a  graduate  of  pharmacy,  took  considerable  interest  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  professional  side  of  pharmacy. 
Allen  Shryock  died  on  November  14,  1905.  Mr.  Shryock  gradu- 
ated from  the  college  in  i860  and  became  a  member  in  1870.  Mr. 
Shryock  was  in  the  drug  business  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was  a 
teacher  of  music  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
THE  PHILADELPHIA  BRANCH  OF  THE  AMERICAN 
PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
THE  COUNCIL  ON  PHARMACY  AND    CHEMISTRY  OF  THE  AMERICAN 
MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
There  are  probably  but  few  present-day  activities  that  promise  to 
have  a  more  far-reaching  influence  on  the  rise  and  the  development 
of  the  science  of  pharmacy,  in  the  United  States,  than  the  organi- 
zation and  support  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  by 
the  American  Medical  Association. 
The  work  that  has  been  undertaken  by  this  Council,  while  thor- 
oughly well  appreciated  by  the  leading  medical  practitioners  of  this 
country,  does  not  appear  to  be  so  well  known  to,  or  at  least  is  not 
so  thoroughly  well  understood  by,  the  average  retail  pharmacist. 
This  evident  lack  of  appreciation  and  interest  on  the  part  of  the 
pharmacist  is  all  the  more  unfortunate  in  that  no  class  of  persons 
