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Tributes  to  Professor  Procter. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\     January,  1905. 
really  seemed  to  give  delight  to  Professor  Procter  to  be  of  assistance 
to  any  one  in  pursuit  of  investigations  in  his  domain  of  study. 
I  am  indeed  very  glad  that  Dr.  Hancock  has  taken  in  hand  the 
erection  of  a  bronze  statue  to  our  departed  friend,  and  I  most  sin- 
cerely hope  that  his  project  will  soon  be  realized.  It  occurs  to  me 
that  no  more  fitting  locality  for  the  placing  of  this  lasting  monument 
could  possibly  be  selected  than  the  vicinity  of  the  Smithsonian 
Institute  in  our  National  Capital,  where  Professor  Procter  will  stand 
in  close  proximity  to  that  other  esteemed  teacher  of  mine,  the  father 
of  American  Surgery,  the  late  Prof.  Samuel  B.  Gross,  which  statue 
was  placed  there  by  the  physicians  and  surgeons  of  the  United 
States.  By  placing  Professor  Procter's  statue  in  his  company,  we 
will  in  a  manner  emphasize  the  equal  claims  with  pharmacy  and 
surgery  in  the  esteem  of  future  generations  of  visitors  to  the  National 
Capital. 
GEORGE  M.  BERINGER 
said :  "  It  was  not  my  privilege  to  know  Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr., 
as  he  had  passed  away  before  my  entrance  into  the  drug  business, 
but  I  am  acquainted  with  his  more  than  five  hundred  contributions 
to  the  pages  ot  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy.  I  fully  ap- 
preciate the  useful  and  practical  nature  of  many  of  these  contribu- 
tions and  the  high  ideal  of  pharmacy  which  were  therein  promul- 
gated. 
"  It  appears  to  me  that  at  least  three  States  have  a  peculiar 
interest  in  perpetuating  the  memory  of  Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr. — 
Maryland,  as  his  birthplace  and  the  State  wherein  he  spent  the  days 
of  his  childhood ;  Pennsylvania,  where  he  achieved  his  success  and 
performed  his  monumental  labors  in  behalf  of  pharmacy  ;  and  New 
Jersey,  wherein  he  spent  a  short  portion  of  his  declining  days,  and 
which  State  has  furnished  a  final  resting-place  for  his  body. 
"  The  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association,  recognizing  the 
propriety  of  perpetuating  his  memory,  several  years  ago  appointed 
a  committee  on  Procter  Memorial.  This  committee  has  been  con- 
tinued, awaiting  the  crystallization  of  the  various  plans  suggested 
into  a  national  movement  that  might  be  considered  definite  and 
feasible. 
"  I  have  no  doubt  that  the  movement  now  inaugurated  by  the 
appointment  of  a  committee  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
