A?anuOary,P190r-}  Editorial.  33 
The  movement  to  honor  the  memory  of  Professor  Procter  in  a 
tangible  way  may  be  said  to  have  begun  at  the  Put-in-Bay  meeting 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  when  after  the  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Semi-Centennial  Celebration,  Albert  E.  Ebert 
said  (See  Proc.  A.Ph.A.,  1899,  p.  114): — 
If  that  committee  is  to  be  continued  I  would  like  to  draw  their  attention  to 
one  feature.  There  is  one  man  who  belonged  to  this  association — he  was  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  association^-who  is  seemingly  forgotten.  He  is  the 
father  of  pharmacy  of  this  country,  and  that  is  William  Procter.  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  or 
this  association  at  the  time  of  our  fiftieth  anniversary  to  do  something  to  com- 
memorate his  valuable  work;  it  would  be  a  grand  thing  for  the  association. 
There  has  been  no  man  associated  with  this  organization  who  has  done  so  much, 
who  has  been  such  a  faithful  servant  of  this  association  in  times  gone  by,  who 
cared  for  it  to  that  extent  that  William  Procter  did;  and  I  hope  in  some  way, 
when  we  meet  in  Philadelphia  in  1902,  that  his  memory,  above  all  others,  will 
be  brought  out  in  a  way  to  hand  it  down  to  the  twentieth  century,  because  we 
are  somewhat  forgetting  the  grand  work  William  Procter  has  done  for  American 
pharmacy. 
At  this  same  meeting  Mr.  Ebert  told  the  editor  of  this  Journal 
that  some  years  before  he  had  spoken  to  the  late  Professor  Trimble 
about  this  matter  and  he  seemed  to  feel  that  we  should  take  the 
initiative  in  an  effort  to  revive  the  memory  of  Professor  Procter, 
whereupon  the  editor  of  this  Journal,  who  was  also  secretary  of  the 
Committee  on  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy,  invited  Professor  Remington  to  prepare  a  memorial 
sketch  of  Professor  Procter  for  presentation  at  one  of  these  meet- 
ings, but  as  the  time  was  approaching  for  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  it  was  thought  better  to  pre- 
sent it  there.  This  address  was  subsequently  published  in  the 
Proceedings  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  (1900,  p.  22)  and  in  this  Journal 
(June  1,  1900),  where  we  also  published  a  portrait  of  Professor  Proc. 
ter,  as  he  was  better  known  perhaps  to  those  who  still  recollect  him, 
and  which  was  taken  from  the  oil  painting  in  the  museum  of  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
In  the  same  year  (October,  1900)  we  published  letters  containing 
some  recollections  and  reminiscences  of  Prof.  Procter  from  Frederick 
Hoffmann,  James  T.  Shinn  and  George  W.  Sloan.  In  an  editorial 
published  in  the  November  number  were  considered  some  of  the 
forms  of  memorials  which  would  be  most  suitable  as  a  testimonial 
to  Professor  Procter.    During  the  next  year  (February,  March  and 
