A^a^uarySra'}         Tributes  to  Professor  Procter.  43 
Feeling  that  I  will  express  the  sentiment  of  all  the  ladies  and 
gentlemen  present,  I  now  offer  a  motion — that  the  thanks  of  the 
meeting  be  given  to  Dr.  John  F.  Hancock  for  his  address  relative 
to  a  monument  to  William  Procter. 
HENRY  A.  BORELL 
sent  the  following  letter  : 
I  met  Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr.,  a  few  times  in  my  early  appren- 
ticeship ;  it  was  on  matters  of  business.  I  was  sent  to  him,  I  think, 
in  reference  to  Pepsin.  I  was  most  favorably  impressed  with  his 
quiet  and  easy  manner,  and  often  afterwards  regretted  that  he  no 
longer  was  of  the  teaching  faculty  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy. 
THOMAS  S.  WIEGAND, 
when  asked  to  give  some  of  his  personal  recollections  of  Professor 
Procter,  said : 
I  regret  my  health  does  not  permit  me  to  be  out  after  nightfall,  or 
I  should  have  been  most  glad  to  have  attended  the  meeting  held  last 
evening  and  voiced  my  remembrances  of  my  friend,  Prof.  William 
Procter,  Jr.  My  acquaintance  with  him  began  about  the  year  1844 
or  1845,  and  from  that  time  up  to  the  time  of  his  decease  our  rela- 
tions were  of  the  most  cordial  character. 
The  most  prominent  trait,  and  one  which  made  all  his  friends  con- 
fide in  him  so  fully,  was  his  perfect  frankness  and  sincerity — always 
expressing  his  full  opinion  and  conviction  upon  any  subject  he  dis- 
cussed. This  always  made  any  one  who  consulted  him  on  any  sub- 
ject feel  sure  of  good,  wholesome,  sound  advice.  To  estimate  his 
position  in  pharmacy,  one  must  consider  the  changes  that  have 
taken  place  in  the  business  of  pharmacy  from  his  active  participa- 
tion in  it  and  its  present  status. 
When  Professor  Procter  entered  into  business  the  apothecary  was 
pre-eminently  a  practical  man,  a  worker  in  the  art,  a  real  maker  of 
the  materials  he  supplied  to  his  customers  and  used  in  the  com- 
pounding of  prescriptions  and  the  preparations  he  dispensed  ;  hence 
he  became  fitted  by  his  work  and  his  careful  habit  of  observation  to 
give  that  information  which  all  who  knew  him  so  much  appreci- 
ated, and  this  fitted  him  for  that  place  which  so  many  of  his  con- 
freres have  been  pleased  to  bestow  on  him — the  Father  of  American 
Pharmacy. 
