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at  the  centres  of  education  and  erudition  than  on  public  squares  or 
in  parks.  A  proper  Walhalla  for  the  monuments  of  American 
pharmaceutical  celebrities  would  be  the  hall  of  the  pioneer  school 
of  American  pharmacy,  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and 
the  busts  of  Procter  and  Squibb  might  be  among  the  foremost  ones 
to  be  erected. 
One  of  the  most  appropriate,  useful  and  creditable  memorials, 
however,  may  be  the  institution  of  a  prize  medal  to  be  granted  by 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  recognition  of  superior 
discoveries  or  literary  accomplishments  in  the  domains  of  theoreti- 
cal and  applied  pharmaceutical  sciences  and  arts.  By  bearing  the 
impress  and  names  of  eminent  and  distinguished  men  and  per- 
petuating their  memory,  this  form  of  commemoration  has  been  in 
use  since  antiquity.  More  modern  memorial  medals  of  this  kind 
are,  among  others,  the  Copley,  Rumford,  Davy,  H anbury}  Fliicki- 
ger2 and  Pasteur*  medals,  while  others  have  been  made  for  once 
only  at  special  occasions  in  memory  of  eminent  scientists  and  instruc- 
tors, as  for  instance  the  memorial  medals  of  TrommsdorfP  and 
Scheele.5 
xThe  H anbury  medal  was  instituted  by  voluntary  contributions  in  1879  in 
memory  of  the  distinguished  British  pharmacognosy  Daniel  Hanbury,  who 
died  in  1875.  Copies  of  the  medal  in  gold  are  granted  every  three  years  for 
eminent  services  or  discoveries  in  the  domain  of  pharmacognosy.  The  grant 
is  made  by  the  Presidents  of  the  Iyinnean  Society,  the  Pharmaceutical  Society 
and  the  Pharmaceutical  Conference  of  Great  Britain. 
2  The  Fliickiger  medal  was  established  in  1893  in  honor  of  the  distinguished 
Swiss  pharmacognost,  Fr.  A.  Fliickiger,  at  the  occasion  of  his  retirement  from 
the  professorship  at  the  University  of  Strassburg.  It  i,«  granted  for  special 
merits  in  the  domains  of  pharmaceutical  and  cognate  sciences  and  arts. 
3  The  Pasteur  medal  has  recently  been  instituted  as  a  premium  for  eminent 
work  in  bacteriological  research. 
4  The  Trommsdorjf  medal  has  been  coined  for  once  only  at  the  occasion  of 
the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  entrance  into  pharmacy  of  the  famous  pharma- 
ceutical educator,  Joh.  Barthalom.  Trommsdorff,  in  Erfurt.  The  medal  is  of 
bronze,  showing  on  the  front  a  relief  bust  of  Trommsdorff  and  on  the  reverse 
a  symbolic  figure  of  Prometheus  and  of  two  youths,  representing  chemistry  and 
pharmacy,  with  this  inscription  :  "Pax  divina  coquit  succos  morbisque  mede- 
tur."— "  Tessara  amicorum,  1834." 
5  The  Swedish  Royal  Academy  of  Sciences  had  a  memorial  medal  coined  in 
1790  in  memory  of  its  member  Scheele  ;  it  showed  a  relief  portrait  of  Scheele 
and  on  the  reverse  a  symbolic  representation  of  the  discovery  of  oxygen,  and 
had  this  inscription  :  "  Ingenio  stat  sine  morte  decus." — "Socio  prematura 
morte  erepto  Regia  Academia  Scientiarum  Stockholmiensis." 
