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Obituary. 
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I   December,  1906. 
tisements  and  medical  advice  in  the  daily  newspapers  and  to  report 
at  a  later  meeting.  Professor  Kraemer  then  exhibited  a  specimen 
of  licorice  grown  by  the  late  Henry  N.  Rittenhouse,  and  presented 
the  following  books  to  the  college : 
The  second  edition  of  Prof.  Rudolf  Robert's  "  Lehrbuch  der 
Intoxicationen ;  "  the  second  report  of  the  "  Wellcome  Research 
Laboratories  at  the  Gordon  Memorial  College,  Khartoum  ;  "  and 
"  Conference  of  London  Chemists  Association  and  Burroughs- 
Wellcome  Company." 
The  following  provisional  program  has  been  arranged  for  the 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting  on  Tuesday  evening,  December  18th: 
"The  Systematic  Management  of  a  Retail  Pharmacy."  By  Mr. 
Harry  B.  Mason,  of  Detroit. 
"  A  Special  Form  of  Check  for  Paying  Bills."  By  Harry  C. 
Blair,  Ph.G. 
"  The  Retort  Courteous."    By  C.  L.  Bonta,  P.D.,  A.M. 
41  A  Simple  System  for  Personal  Accounts."    By  E.  Fullerton 
Cook,  P.D. 
"  The  Possibilities  of  Professional  Pharmacy."  By  William  C. 
Wescott,  Ph.G. 
An- exhibit  will  be  made  by  the  manufacturers  of  special  devices 
for  simplifying  accounting,  the  keeping  of  records,  etc. 
Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tent. 
OBITUARY. 
Albert  E.  Ebert,  a  life-long  pharmacist  and  a  prominent  member  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  died  at  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  Chicago, 
where  he  was  taken  for  an  operation  for  appendicitis,  on  Tuesday,  November 
20th.  Mr.  Ebert  was  66  years  of  age,  having  been  born  in  Germany  in  1840. 
The  next  year  his  parents  came  to  this  country,  and  in  1852  he  was  apprenticed 
in  the  drug  business  and  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
in  1864.  In  1867  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy  in  Munich 
where  he'awas  the  student  of  Liebig. 
Mr.  Ebert  engaged  in  the  drug  business  in  Chicago  in  1868,  and  was  actively 
engaged  as  a  retail  pharmacist  until  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  much 
interested  in  the  advancement  of  American  pharmacy  and  occasionally  wrote 
papers  on  practical  subjects.  One  of  the  last  of  his  original  papers  was  on  the 
subject  of  "The  Manufacture  of  Deodorized  Opium  and  Tincture,"  and  was 
published  in  this  Journal  in  1902.  One  of  his  earliest  papers  was  on  this  same 
subject,  published  over  thirty-five  years  ago. 
