Am'jSyr'i9ih9rm'  ^    News  Items  and  Personal  Notes.  483 
NEWS  ITEMS  AND  PERSONAL  NOTES. 
Caswell  A.  Mayo,  Ph.M.,  Removes  to  Cincinnati. — Mr. 
Caswell  A.  Mayo,  who  for  twenty-seven  years  has  served  as  the 
editor  of  our  esteemed  journalistic  contemporary,  the  American 
Druggist  and  Pharmaceutical  Record,  has  severed  his  editorial  con- 
nection with  that  journal  and  engaged  with  the  William  S.  Merrell 
Company  of  Cincinnati. 
Since  his  entrance  as  a  student  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  Mr.  Mayo's  career  has  been  a  series  of  distinguished 
services  in  behalf  of  the  vocation  that  he  selected  for  his  life's  work. 
His  efforts  have,  from  time  to  time,  received  merited  recognition. 
His  alma  mater  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  master  of  phar- 
macy, honoris  causa,  and  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
elected  him  as  president,  1914-1915.  In  addition,  he  has  held  many 
responsible  positions  in  the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy  and  in 
the  various  pharmaceutical  organizations.  Not  the  least  of  his 
services  to  pharmacy  have  been  the  addresses  and  penned  articles 
in  favor  of  professional  pharmaceutical  work  in  the  Army,  Navy 
and  Health  Departments  of  the  Federal  Government  with  appro- 
priate commissioned  rank  for  pharmacists.  Mr.  Mayo  carries  with 
him  to  this  new  field  of  activities  the  high  regards  of  a  host  of 
friends  and  their  best  wishes  for  a  continuance  of  the  high  ideals 
that  have  characterized  his  past  work  and,  if  possible,  that  even 
greater  personal  satisfaction  and  success  may  attend  him  therein. 
Burroughs  Wellcome  Manager  Visits  America. — George  E. 
Pearson,  F.C.S.,  general  manager  of  Burroughs  Wellcome  &  Co., 
London,  England,  is  paying  a  visit  to  America  and  in  his  tours  is 
taking  in  some  of  the  interesting  sights  as  well  as  calling  upon 
friends  and  customers  of  his  well-known  firm.  It  was  a  pleasure  to 
welcome  him  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  on  Tuesday, 
May  24,  and  to  have  him  make  a  personal  inspection  of  this  insti- 
tution. 
Decease  of  Prof.  William  G.  Farlow. — On  June  3,  William 
G.  Farlow,  professor  of  cryptogamic  botany  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, died  at  his  home  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  aged  74.  He  was  recog- 
nized as  an  authority  in  the  botanical  sciences,  especially  in  the  de- 
partment thereof  in  which  he  had  specialized  and  taught  at  Har- 
