84  Memorials  to  American  Pharmacists.  {^ebKSy^iSS^ 
progress  of  the  association,  including  biographical  notes  and  por- 
traits of  the  principal  pioneers  and  representatives  of  American 
pharmacy  during  the  nineteenth  century.  Provided  that  the  right 
man  can  be  found  to  compile  a  worthy  literary  monument  of  this 
kind,  such  a  work  would  be  an  appropriate,  useful  and  enduring 
contribution  to  the  literature  of  American  pharmacy  and  a  worthy 
credit  to  the  association. 
Precedents  of  this  kind,  although  less  comprehensive  and  speci- 
fied, are  the  similar  memoirs:  "  Historical  Sketch  of  the  Progress 
of  Pharmacy  in  Great  Britain,"  compiled  by  Jacob  Bell  and  Theo- 
philus  Redwood,  published  by  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great 
Britain  at  the  occasion  of  the  Fifth  International  Pharmaceutical 
Congress,  held  in  London  in  1 88 1  ;  "Festschrift  zur  Erinnerung  an 
die  25  jahrige  Stiftungsfeier  des  Schweizerischen  Apotheker  Vereins 
am  16  und  17  August,  1893;"  and  u  Festschrift  des  Deutschen 
Apotheker  Vereins  zur  Feier  der  25 ten  Jahresversammlung,  1896." 
The  establishment  of  scholarships  and  fellowships  has  also  been 
proposed.  Such  endowments,  however,  can  be  of  real  use  and 
benefit  in  a  country  of  so  vast  an  extent  and  population  only  if  they 
are  based  upon  very  considerable  funds,  else  their  usefulness  will  be 
too  slight  and  limited  to  far  too  small  a  number  of  recipients. 
Another  proposition  seems  to  have  been  the  erection  of  some 
public  monument  in  memory  of  one  or  more  of  the  foremost  pio- 
neers of  American  pharmacy.  Well-founded  doubts,  however,  may 
be  raised  whether  pharmacy  and  its  past  and  present  position 
among  the  professions  and  the  modern  factors  of  intellectual  culture 
and  technical  and  industrial  progress  entitles  its  representatives  to 
be  ranked  among  the  great  master  minds  of  the  exact  and  applied 
sciences  and  arts,  as  well  as  the  glorious  political  and  military 
heroes  whose  monuments  adorn  the  historical  arenas  and  cities  of 
both  the  old  and  the  new  world.  In  cases  where  gifted  men  risen 
from  the  ranks  of  pharmacy,  such  as  Scheele,  Liebig  and  others,  have 
been  honored  by  posterity  with  public  monuments,  this  has  been 
done  in  recognition  of  their  scientific  discoveries  or  special  accom- 
plishments only.  Whether  the  recently  erected  monument  of  Pel- 
letier  and  Caventou  reflects  exclusively  on  their  scientific  merits  or 
not  less  on  national  pride  also,  may  be  a  matter  of  doubt. 
When  monuments  to  American  pharmacists  are  to  be  erected, 
they  may  more  properly  be  placed  in  some  museum  or  public  hall 
