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Obituaries. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
[       July,  1913. 
constitution  and  by-laws  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, are  a  geographical  roll  of  members,  an  alphabetical  list  of 
members  and  a  well  arranged  index  of  34  double  column  pages  that 
will  serve  to  make  the  content  of  the  volume  of  permanent  value 
to  pharmacists  who  are  interested  in  the  professional  side  of  their 
calling.  The  receipt  of  this  volume  will  no  doubt  reawaken  in 
the  minds  of  many,  and  let  us  hope  the  majority  of  the  members  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  hope  that  the  recent 
decision,  of  the  Councils  of  the  Association,  to  discontinue  the  an- 
nual volume  will  be  reconsidered  and  that  ways  and  means  will  be 
found  to  continue  the  publication  of  the  Report  of  the  Progress  of 
Pharmacy  in  the  form  of  a  bound,  separately  indexed  volume  in 
keeping  with  the  one  now  before  us. 
M.  I.  W. 
OBITUARIES. 
John  W.  Ridpath,  son  of  Robt.  Ridpath  and  Eleanor  Blair, 
was  born  in  Upper  Onslow,  Colechester  County,  Nova  Scotia,  Oct. 
1st,  1840.  His  father,  a  ship  carpenter,  was  drowned  on  July  19, 
1841,  while  trying  to  save  the  life  of  a  fellow  workman. 
During  the  fall  of  1864,  Mr.  Ridpath  visited  his  home  in  Nova 
Scotia,  stopping  at  Boston  on  his  way.  Upon  returning  to  the 
United  States  he  took  up  his  residence  at  Jenkintown,  purchasing 
the  painting  business  of  William  Pearson.  He  took  out  his  natural- 
ization papers  on  Oct.  13th,  1868,  voting  for  the  first  time  in 
Abington  Township,  now  Jenkintown,  on  Oct.  12th,  1869. 
Finding  the  work  detrimental  to  his  health,  in  the  fall  of  1870 
he  discontinued  the  business  of  painting  and  entered  the  drug  busi- 
ness, which  he  continued  until  April  8th,  1892.  He  was  made  a 
member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  Aug.  5th,  1870, 
and  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  April  23rd, 
1880. 
His  membership  in  the  Franklin  Institute  dates  from  March 
10th,  1882,  from  which  time  he  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  work 
of  the  Institute,  lecturing  before  that  body  and  many  other  promi- 
nent societies,  and  public  and  private  schools  of  the  lower  end  of 
Montgomery  County. 
On  April  25th,  1889,  Mr.  Ridpath  was  elected  Secretary  of 
