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February.  ISPS.  J 
Friedrich  August  Fliickiger. 
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The  most  significant  and  honorable  recognition  of  Professor 
Fliickiger's  labors  consisted  in  his  call  by  the  German  Government 
as  Professor  of  Pharmacy  and  Pharmacognosy  and  Director  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Institute,  established  at  the  reorganization  of  the  old 
German  University  of  Strassburg  in  Alsace  in  1873.  Professor 
Fliickiger  accepted  this  call,  and  filled  the  position  entrusted  to  him 
with  success,  and  with  much  credit  to  himself  and  the  University,  for 
nineteen  years.  In  1 892,  he  retired  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years  and 
settled  at  his  old  home  among  the  snow-clad  Alpine  ranges  at  Bern, 
with  the  intention  of  applying  his  remaining  years  to  literary  work, 
and  particularly  to  collecting  and  assorting  the  accumulated  mate- 
rial in  preparation  for  the  elaboration  of  a  comprehensive  history 
of  medicinal  plant  drugs. 
The  years  in  Strassburg  were  the  most  prolific,  as  well  as  the 
most  useful  ones,  in  Professor  Fliickiger's  indefatigable  activity  as 
teacher,  investigator  and  author,  and  he  looked  upon  them  as  the 
most  happy  ones  of  his  long  and  successful  career.  There  he. 
enjoyed  the  attractive  and  inciting  intellectual  intercourse  with  the 
elite  of  the  pharmaceutical  students  of  Germany  and  of  foreign 
countries,  who  were  drawn  thither  by  the  reputation  of  the  great 
scholar,  and  who  received  his  instruction  in  the  lecture-room  and 
the  laboratory,  passed  the  searching  ordeal  of  his  examination,  and 
finally  returned  home,  imbued  with  a  love  for  knowledge  and  study 
for  its  own  sake,  and  with  appreciation  of  their  great  teacher  and 
veneration  for  him. 
Upon  the  retirement  of  Professor  Fliickiger  from  his  many  years 
of  academic  activity,  the  veteran  scholar  was  the  recipient  of  many 
honors.  The  Emperor  of  Germany  honored  him  by  a  decoration, 
the  scientists  of  many  countries  presented  him  through  a  special 
committee  with  a  magnificent  album  containing  more  than  300 
photographic  portraits,  and  with  a  handsome  donation  as  a  contri- 
bution to  the  erection  of  a  comfortable  home  in  Bern.  Moreover,  a 
committee  was  formed  for  the  institution  of  a  Fliickiger  Memorial 
Fund.  The  proceeds  collected  were  to  remain  in  the  control  of  this 
committee,  consisting,  at  the  time,  of  Professors  Tschirch  of  Bern, 
Schaer  of  Strassburg,  Hilger  of  Munich,  F.  Weber  of  Zurich,  and 
Professor  Fliickiger.  Upon  the  death  of  the  latter,  his  place  in  the 
committee  has  to  be  filled  by  a  person  elected  by  the  National 
Association  of  Pharmacists  of  Germany.    The  object  of  this  memo- 
