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Pharmaceutical  Meeting . 
<  Am.  Jour.  Phariaa. 
\     January,  1905. 
present  series  was  held  on  Tuesday  evening,  December  13th.  The 
president  of  the  College,  Howard  B.  French,  presided. 
The  principal  speaker  of  the  evening  was  Dr.  John  F.  Hancock, 
of  Baltimore,  who  gave  an  address  on  "  William  Procter,  Jr.,  the 
Father  of  American  Pharmacy."  (See  page  13.)  Dr.  Hancock 
was  president  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  the 
Richmond  meeting  in  1873,  and  is  one  of  its.  most  esteemed  mem- 
bers. He  was  a  personal  friend  of  Professor  Procter  and  has  for 
some  years  past  been  actively  identified  with  the  movement  to 
memorialize  the  life  and  work  of  Professor  Procter.  Largely  through 
his  efforts  the  Association,  at  its  last  meeting,  in  Kansas  City, 
adopted  a  resolution  favoring  the  erection  of  a  monument  in  the 
Smithsonian  grounds  in  Washington  City  in  honor  of  Professor 
Procter.  President  James  H.  Beal,  of  the  Association,  has  appointed 
the  following  committee  to  carry  on  the  work,  of  which  Dr.  Han- 
cock is  chairman :  Benjamin  T.  Fairchild,  New  York  City ;  Frank 
C.  Henry,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  Chicago;  Henry 
Kraemer,  Philadelphia. 
Dr.  Hancock's  address  was  enthusiastically  indorsed  by  the  mem- 
bers present,  and  among  those  who  spoke  (see  page  35)  were 
President  French,  Professor  Remington,  James  T.  Shinn,  Dr.  A.  W. 
Miller,  EvanT.  Ellis,  E.  M.  Boring,  William  Mclntyre,  M.  I.  Wilbert, 
and  George  M.  Beringer.  Letters  regretting  their  inability  to  be 
present  were  received  from  the  following:  Benjamin  T.  Fairchild, 
Frank  C.  Henry,  J.  H.  Redsecker,  Joseph  Crawford,  Wm.  J.  Miller, 
Henry  A.  Borell,  H.  Cramer,  and  Mahlon  N.  Kline. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  read  an  interesting  paper  on  "  Dr.  Chris- 
topher Witt— An  early  American  Botanist  and  a  man  of  many  and 
varied  attainments,"  which  was  illustrated  by  a  number  of  lantern 
slides.   This  paper  will  be  published  in  a  later  issue  of  this  Journal. 
At  the  next  meeting,  which  will  be  held  Tuesday  evening,  January 
I Oth,  the  following  papers  will  be  presented: 
"A  brief  consideration  of  a  few  facts  determining  the  Relation- 
ship between  the  Science  and  Art  of  Pharmacy  and  the  Science  and 
Art  of  Medicine."    By  Dr.  Henry  Beates,  Jr. 
"The  Pharmacist  and  the  Physician."    By  M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M. 
There  will  also  be  communications  from  Prof.  William  Osier,  Bal- 
timore; Prof.  John  H.  Musser,  Philadelphia  ;  and  others. 
"  The  Size  of  the  Dropper  as  applied  to  Alkaloids  in  Eye  Drops." 
By  Dr.  P.  N.  K.  Schwenk.  Henry  Kraemer,  Secretary. 
