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PRESENTATION  OF  MEDAL  TO  DR.  FREDERICK  B. 
.  POWER. 
On  Monday,  May  9,  192 1,  in  the  Auditorium  of  the  Cosmos 
Club,  Washington,  D.  C,  a  very  interesting  event  occurred  when 
Mr.  Henry  S.  Wellcome  presented  to  Dr.  Frederick  B.  Power  a  gold 
medal  in  recognition  of  his  services  as  Director  of  the  Wellcome 
Research  Laboratories  for  a  period  of  nearly  twenty  years  prior  to 
1914. 
Dr..  David  Fairchild  opened  the  meeting  by  reading  letters  from 
the  following  gentlemen,  expressing  regret  for  their  inability  to  at- 
tend the  presentation :  Dr.  Thomas  B.  Osborne,  of  New  Haven, 
Conn. ;  Prof.  Marston  T.  Bogert,  of  Columbia  University,  New  York 
City;  Prof.  Charles  Baskerville,  of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New 
York;  Prof.  W.  A.  Noyes,  of  the  University  of  Illinois,  and  Prof. 
Rodney  H.  True,  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  After  read- 
ing the  letters  he  stated  that  the  meeting  was  open. 
Dr.  Charles  D.  Walcott,  Secretary  of  the  Smithsonian  Institu- 
tion, and  President  of  the  National  Academy  of  Sciences,  then  read 
the  following  presentation  address : 
''Ladies  and  Gentlemen — We  have  gathered  here  this  afternoon 
to  do  honor  to  Dr.  Frederick  Belding  Power,  who  for  fifty  years  has 
spent  his  thinking  hours  among  the  complicated  molecules  of  organic 
compounds ;  who,  because  he  possesses  that  peculiar  faculty  of  ex- 
hausting each  subject  which  he  takes  up,  has  had  the  greatest  in- 
fluence both  in  America  and  Great  Britain  in  raising  the  standard  of 
our  pharmacopoeias ;  who  has  gained  distinction  by  his  most  difficult 
and  life-consuming  researches  into  the  chemical  composition  of  plant 
compounds. 
"As  a  lasting  tribute  to  these  fifty  years  of  research  and  in  com- 
memoration of  those  which  he  spent  as  director  of  the  Wellcome 
Chemical  Research  Laboratories  of  London,  I  have  been  asked  by 
Mr.  Henry  S.  Wellcome,  their  founder,  to  present  him  with  this  gold 
medal,  which  bears  the  following  inscription : 
"To 
Frederick  B.  Power,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D. 
In  recognition  of  his  distinguished  services  to  science 
during  18^  years  as  Director  of  the  Wellcome  Chem- 
ical Research  Laboratories,  London. 
Presented  by  the  Founder, 
HENRY  S.  WELLCOME,  I914. 
