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Joseph  P.  Remington,  on  behalf  of  his  colleagues,  read  the  following  resolution 
and  memoir,  which  the  committee  had  prepared  : 
"  Whereas,  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  have  learned,  with  feelings 
of  sorrow  and  regret,  of  the  death  of  our  esteemed  and  greatly  honored  member, 
Professor  George  B.  Wood,  M.  D.,  and  although  the  memory  of  his  great  services 
to  the  cause  of  pharmacy  cannot  be  readily  effaced,  we  still  desire  to  record  our 
sense  of  the  loss  which  has  been  sustained  by  his  death  ;  and,  whereas,  it  is  fit  and 
proper  that  the  actions,  character  and  services  of  the  illustrious  dead  should  be  por- 
trayed and  commemorated,  and,  whereas,  we  wish  to  put  on  record  an  expression 
of  our  sense  of  the  great  private  worth  which  characterized  our  late  fellow  member^ 
no  less  than  his  public  virtues, 
"Resolved,  That  in  the  death  of  Dr.  George  B.  Wood,  the  College  of  Pharmacy 
has  lost  one  of  its  most  revered  and  distinguished  members  ;  the  pharmaceutical 
profession  one  of  its  most  hearty  and  earnest  well  wishers  j  the  profession  of  medi- 
cine one  of  its  most  able  leaders  ;  our  country  one  of  its  most  celebrated  authors, 
and  the  world  one  of  its  truly  great  men. 
"  Whilst  it  is  not  the  intention  of  your  committee  to  rehearse,  at  length,  the  ser- 
vices of  this  remarkably  laborious  author  (as  able  writers  have  already  in  hand  the 
preparation  of  a  suitable  biography),  it  would  seem  proper  to  bring  to  the  recollec- 
tion of  his  fellow  members  some  of  the  more  prominent  points  in  connection  with 
his  interest  in  our  college  and  the  pharmaceutical  profession. 
"  The  chair  of  chemistry  was  first  occupied  in  the  College  of  Pharmacy  by  Gerard 
Troost,  M.  D.,  who  served  from  1821  to  1822. 
"  He  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  George  B.  Wood  in  1822,  who  held  the  chair  until 
1831,  when  on  the  death  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Ellis  he  was  elected  Professor  of  Materia 
Medica  and  Pharmacy;  this  position  he  held  until  1835,  wnen  ne  resigned  to  accept 
the  Professorship  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy  in  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. 
"It  was  during  his  official  connection  with  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
that  the  "United  States  Dispensatory"  first  saw  light,  and  the  title  page  of  the  first 
edition  of  the  most  successful  work  of  the  kind  the  country  has  ever  seen  bears  the 
following  imprint : 
4<  'The  Dispensatory  of  theJJnited  States  of  America.'  By  George  B.  Wood,  M.  D., 
Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  etc.,  etc.,  and  Franklin  Bac'he,  M.  D., 
Professor  of  Chemistry  in  the^Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  one  of  the  Secre- 
taries of  the  American  Philosophical  Society,  etc.,  etc.  1833. 
"In  the  preface,  in  setting  forth  the  reasons  for  publishing  this  work,  these  words 
occur : 
"  It  appears  due  to  our  national  character  that  such  a  work  should  be  in  good 
faith  an  American  work,  newly  prepared  in  all  its  parts,  and  not  a  mere  edition  of  one 
of  the  European  dispensatories,  with  here  and  there  additions  and  alterations  which, 
though  they  may  be  useful  in  themselves,  cannot  be  made  to  harmonize  with  the 
other  materials  so  as  to  give  to  the  whole  an  appearance  of  unity,  and  certainly 
would  not  justify  the  assumption  of  a  new  and  national  title  -for  the  book.  The 
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