140  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.      I  AmMarch.i£f.rm 
New  York;"  "Resolutions  of  the  National  College  of  Pharmacy;" 
"Dedication  of  the  Monument  to  Charles  Rice,  Ph.D.,"  and  "  The 
Rice  Memorial  Committee." 
In  the  biographical  sketch,  unfortunately,  there  is  a  most  lamenta- 
ble absence  of  detailed  information,  in  connection  with  the  numerous 
subjects  enumerated.  For  this  general  lack  of  detail  there  can  be 
but  two  reasonable  reasons — dearth  of  material,  or  lack  of  funds. 
The  former  of  these  can  hardly  be  accepted  as  valid,  while  the  latter 
would  constitute  a  lasting  disgrace  to  the  profession  of  medicine  as 
well  as  to  that  of  pharmacy,  as  the  standing  of  both  of  these  pro- 
fessions has  been  manifestly  advanced  by  the  disinterested  efforts  of 
this  lone,  and  in  many  respects  lonely,  man. 
It  would,  for  instance,  be  interesting  to  know  how  Charles  Rice, 
who,  as  one  writer  in  this  memoir  suggests,  was  but  an  insignificant 
part  of  a  great  political  machine,  contrived,  "  despite  the  vicissitudes 
of  political  fortune,"  to  conduct  his  own  individual  department  on 
such  a  high  ethical  plane  that  even  the  leaders  of  that  political 
machine  did  not  essay  to  dictate,  or  even  to  suggest  to  him  what  his 
policy  should  be  or  how  he  should  conduct  his  department.  Rec- 
ognizing the  difficulties  under  which  he  labored,  it  would  be  interest- 
ing indeed  to  know  how  Charles  Rice,  for  thirty-five  years,  was  able 
to  personally  conduct  and  direct  the  work  done  in  the  largest 
general  drug  bureau  in  this  country,  to  the  complete  satisfaction  of 
the  numerous  interests  involved  and  with  credit  to  himself  and  his 
assistants. 
It  would  also  be  interesting  to  know  how,  through  all  this  period 
of  time,  while  engaged  in  work  so  foreign  to  research  and  study,  he 
was  able  to  preserve  his  interest  in  all  that  pertained  to  Oriental 
literature  and  languages. 
Last,  but  by  no  means  least,  it  would  be  interesting  to  know  how, 
in  addition  to  all  this,  Charles  Rice  was  able  to  take  such  an  active, 
or,  as  is  generally  admitted,  the  leading  part  in  producing  the  two 
works  that  will  ever  be  recognized  as  being  pre-eminently  the  lead- 
ing features  of  the  American  pharmacy  of  the  latter  decades  of  the 
nineteenth  century  ;  the  sixth  decennial  revision  of  the  United  States 
Pharmacopoeia  and  the  National  Formulary.  As  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  of  Revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  as 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  National  Formulary  of  the  Amer- 
ican Pharmaceutical  Association,  Charles  Rice  essayed  to  do,  and  did 
