AjanSarryfib4rm'}         Tributes  to  Professor  Procter.  37 
by  Soubeiran  and  modified  by  Professor  Procter,  is  the  basis  to-day 
of  the  best  classification  that  we  have. 
It  is  meet  and  proper  that  Mr.  Hancock  should  come  to  us  from 
our  sister  city  in  this  brotherly  and  kindly  way  and  tell  us  of  the 
movement  which  he  has  started  to  honor  the  memory  of  this  great 
man.  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  will  do  its  full  duty. 
I  might  mention  the  fact  as  showing  his  powers  of  concentration 
that  Professor  Procter  performed  his  literary  duties  coincidently 
with  his  practical  store  duties.  Those  matchless  editorials  and  lucid 
papers  whose  meaning  could  be  grasped  alike  by  student  and 
scholar,  were  often  prepared  at  his  little  desk  near  the  prescription 
counter,  from  whence  at  any  moment  he  might  be  called  upon  to 
wait  upon  a  customer.  But  there  is  his  monument — in  his  daily 
life  ;  the  original  work,  the  hundreds  of  papers  to  be  found  in  the 
American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  and  the  Proceedings  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association,  covering  every  class  of  pharma- 
ceutical subjects. 
He  was  a  genius,  if  by  this  is  meant  the  capacity  for  great  labor. 
I  assure  you,  Mr.  President,  of  my  hearty  co-operation  in  the  work. 
dr.  adolph  w.  miller 
said:  I  left  the  distant  city  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  in  i860  for  the 
single  purpose  of  attending  the  lectures  in  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy.  It  so  happened  that  the  very  first  lecture  that  I 
listened  to  in  the  old  College  Building  on  Filbert  Street  was  delivered 
by  Prof.  Wlliam  Procter.  As  has  been  stated  by  the  previous 
speakers,  his  delivery  was  not  by  any  means  fluent  or  brilliant,  but 
he  impressed  me  very  forcibly  with  the  profundity  of  his  learning,  with 
the  marvelous  amount  01  care  and  study  that  he  must  have  given  to 
the  subject  under  his  consideration  at  that  time.  I  immediately  rec- 
ognized in  him  the  foremost  representative  of  the  art  and  science  of 
pharmacy,  as  he  had  previously  been  represented  to  me  by  my  former 
preceptors,  so  that  the  first  slight  disappointment  on  account  of  the 
manner  of  his  delivery  was  at  once  effaced. 
In  subsequent  years  I  frequently  had  occasion  to  calf  on  Professor 
Procter  for  advice  and  counsel  in  scientific  matters  pertaining  to 
pharmacy,  and  I  invariably  was  met  by  him  in  the  most  cordial  and 
genial  manner.  The  rich  stores  of  knowledge  which  he  possessed 
were  always  at  the  service  of  whosoever  asked  for  them,  and  it 
