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Franklin  Bache,  later  Professor  of  Chemistry  in  our  Col- 
lege. It  was  Dr.  Jackson  who  first  suggested  the  present 
name  of  the  Philadelphia  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences, 
and  that  organization  celebrates  its  Founders'  Day  on  the 
anniversary  of  the  date  upon  which  this  name  was  adopted, 
the  previous  meetings  having  been  informal  gatherings. 
It  is  a  curious  commentary  on  the  period  that  Dr.  Jackson 
was  not  at  the  time  a  member  of  the  group  of  men  who 
formed  the  Academy,  because  being  a  rising  young  medical 
practitioner  he  could  not  afford  the  inference  of  irreligion 
which  attached  to  those  who  were  too  deeply  interested 
in  natural  science. 
Daniel  B.  Smith  was  a  young  man  of  29  at  the  time  of  this 
meeting.  He  had  learned  the  drug  business  with  John 
Biddle  of  Philadelphia,  and  had  entered  business  for  him- 
self -at  Sixth  and  Arch.  Later  the  firm  name  was 
Smith  &  Hodgson,  who  were  subsequently  succeeded  by 
Bullock  and  Crenshaw.  In  1820,  he  aided  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Apprentices'  Library.  He  was  the  Chair- 
man of  the  first  publication  committee  of  the  American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy  and  a  frequent  contributor  of  valu- 
able papers.  He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the 
Franklin  Institute,  and  one  of  the  incorporators  and  the 
first  corresponding  secretary  of  the  Pennsylvania  Histori- 
cal Society.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  and  an 
early  manager  of  the  Philadelphia  Savings  Fund  Society. 
He  helped  to  establish  the  House  of  Refuge.  In  1834,  he 
became  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy,  English  Litera- 
ture, and  Chemistry  at  Haverford  College.  He  returned 
to  Philadelphia  twelve  years  later  and.  re-entered  business. 
He  became  the  first  President  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  in  1852.  In  1853,  he  retired  from 
business  and  lived  in  Germantown  until  his  decease  in 
1883. 
Robert  Milnor  was  a  druggist  at  161  South  Second  Street.  He 
was  long  connected  with  the  College  and  continued  as  a 
member  until  1841  without  ever  taking  an  active  part,  so 
far  as  the  records  show. 
Peter  Williamson  was  a  youth  of  24  in  1821.  He  was  the 
presiding  officer  at  the  semi-centennial  in  185 1.    He  was 
