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Tributes  to  Professor  Procter. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\    January,  1905. 
Pharmacy  from  July,  1850,  until  April,  1871.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  Indeed  it 
would  seem  that  his  work  in  this  Association  was  co-ordinate  with 
his  work  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  It  is  perhaps 
not  too  much  to  say  that  up  until  a  few  years  ago  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  was  looked  upon,  in  a  measure  at  least, 
as  being  the  child  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
In  1899  Mr.  Ebert,  of  Chicago,  suggested  that  something  be  done 
to  revive  the  memory  of  Professor  Procter.  The  matter  has  been 
considered  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  by  some 
of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Associations,  and  has  been  considered 
at  length  in  the  columns  of  The  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  has  now  appointed  a 
committee  to  devise  ways  and  means  for  erecting  a  monument  to 
the  memory  of  Professor  Procter,  and  Dr.  John  F.  Hancock,  one  of 
the  best  known  manufacturing  pharmacists  of  Baltimore,  is  chair- 
man of  this  committee.  Dr.  Hancock  was  a  personal  friend  of 
Professor  Procter,  and  will  address  us  this  evening  on  "  William 
Proctor,  Jr.,  the  Father  of  American  Pharmacy." 
PROFESSOR  JOSEPH  P.  REMINGTON, 
at  the  conclusion  of  Dr.  Hancock's  address  (see  page  13), 
said : 
I  am  pleased  to  welcome  Mr.  Hancock  and  thank  him  for  his 
eloquent  tribute  to  the  memory  of  William  Procter,  whose  assistant 
I  was,  and  whom  I  knew  most  intimately  for  eleven  years,  and  for 
two  years  was  in  almost  daily  contact  with  him. 
Mr.  Hancock  has  dwelt  upon  his  professional  career ;  this  was  all 
and  more  than  he  described,  but  great  as  he  was  as  a  pharmacist, 
he  was  even  greater  as  a  man.  It  is  well  that  he  should  be  called 
"  the  Father  of  American  Pharmacy."  He  labored  at  a  time  when 
this  College  was  small  and  pharmacy  in  this  country  was  in  its 
infancy.  He  was  the  first  professor  of  pharmacy  in  this  College, 
and  probably  the  first  in  America.  In  those  days,  before  the  chair 
of  pharmacy  was  founded,  chemistry  and  materia  medica  were  the 
only  branches  taught  at  college,  and  pharmacy  was  taught  in  the 
store.  Under  Professor  Procter's  initiative  the  "  rule  of  thumb  " 
method  of  teaching  was  followed  by  systematic  and  graded  instruc- 
tion.   The  syllabus  on  pharmaceutical  subjects,  originally  proposed 
