526  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.    1  Am-  Jour-  Pharm- 
November,  1913. 
cation  of  Mr.  Elmer  H.  Hessler  to  active  membership,  a  ballot  being 
taken,  he  was  unanimously  elected. 
The  President  reappointed  the  Committee  on  Membership : 
Charles  H.  LaWall,  William  E.  Lee  and  O.  W.  Osterlund,  with  the 
Treasurer  and  Recording  Secretary  ex-officio. 
The  names  of  those  proposed  for  Honorary  Membership  at  the 
quarterly  meeting  in  June,  and  laid  over  for  action  at  this  meeting, 
were  read.  A  ballot  being  taken,  the  following  named  gentlemen 
were  unanimously  elected  to  Honorary  Membership:  Dr.  Carl  L. 
Alsberg,  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry,  U.  S.  Department  of 
Agriculture,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Andrew  L.  Winton,  in  charge  of 
the  Government  Laboratories  at  Chicago,  Illinois ;  Heinrich  Zornig, 
Apothecary  and  Curator  of  the  Imperial  Plant  Physiological  Institute 
at  Munich,  Germany ;  Ernest  Gilg,  Professor  in  the  Pharmazeutische 
Institute,  University  of  Berlin,  and  Curator  of  the  Imperial  Botanical 
Museum  of  Berlin.  Erwin  F.  Smith,  Author,  and  Director  of  the 
Laboratory  of  Plant  Pathology  of  the  U.  S1.  Department  of  Agri- 
culture, Washington,  D.  C. 
Mr.  Joseph  W.  England  read  the  following  memoir  of  William 
Theodore  Wenzell,  which  was  ordered  entered  and  filed. 
William  Theodore  Wenzell,  of  San  Francisco,  died  at  the  age 
of  eighty-four  years  on  July  31,  1913,  at  Lane  Hospital.  He  had 
been  actively  engaged  in  his  work  as  Chemist  in  the  Appraiser's 
Stores,  San  Francisco,  up  to  the  time  of  his  short  illness.  Mr. 
Wenzell  was  born  at  Muhldorf,  Germany,  in  1829,  and  came  to  this 
country  when  a  child,  graduating  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  in  1855,  the  subject  of  his  theses  being  Corydalis  Formosa. 
In  1864  he  received  the  M.D.  degree  from  the  LaCrosse  Medical 
College,  Wisconsin.  He  also  received  the  M.D.  degree  from  the 
Medical  College  of  the  Pacific  in  1876.  In  1872  he  was  made  Pro- 
fessor of  Chemistry  and  Toxicology  of  the  California  College  of 
Pharmacy  which  position  he  held  till  1898.  From  T 875  to  1880  he 
held  a  similar  chair  in  the  Medical  College  of  the  Pacific,  also  in  the 
Cooper  Medical  College  from  1897  to  1902.  In  1899  he  was  appointed 
a  Chemist  to  the  United  States  Appraiser's  Stores  which  position 
he  held  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  life  member  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  joining  in  1870.  He  has 
contributed  a  number  of  valuable  papers  to  American  Pharmacy. 
Election  of  Three  Trustees.   The  report  of 
The  Committee  on  Nominations  was  read  and  Messrs  Osterlund 
