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A  Procter  Memorial. 
j  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\    February,  1801. 
The  suggestion  of  establishing  a  Procter- Squibb  memorial  prize 
medal  at  the  occasion  of  the  semi-centennial  anniversary  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  therefore,  may  be  worthy  of 
consideration.  Such  a  medal  may  bear  on  one  side  the  relief  por- 
traits of  Procter  and  Squibb  and  their  names  and  dates  of  birth  and 
death,  and  on  the  other  the  emblem  of  the  association  and  a  pro- 
per device.  Both  contemporaries,  united  in  close  friendship  and 
fellowship,  have  been  typical  and  eminent  representatives  in  their 
special  domains  of  application,  of  the  prime  and  ideal  aims  and 
aspirations  of  the  earlier  stages  of  American  pharmacy  and  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  Their  joint  memory,  there- 
fore, may  be  properly  linked  with  the  fortunes  and  the  fame  of  the 
time-honored  representative  association  of  American  pharmacy. 
The  question  may  be  left  open  whether  such  a  prize  medal  may 
be  conferred  at  stated  intervals,  or  at  any  of  the  annual  meetings  of 
the  association,  and  whether  its  bestowal  shall  be  confined  to 
Americans  only. 
Berlin,  December  8,  1900. 
A  PROCTER  MEMORIAL. 
By  Wilbur  L>  Scovm,E. 
I  have  been  invited  to  offer  my  views  as  to  what  may  best  serve 
as  a  memorial  to  Professor  Procter.  It  is  a  subject  which  requires 
much  thought,  for  it  involves  the  dove-tailing  of  two  factors.  A 
suitable  memorial  is,  to  my  mind,  something  which  will  of  itself 
recall  the  man  whom  it  memorizes,  and  which  will  appeal  to  those 
whom  it  aims  to  attract.  It  should  not  only  recall  or  stand  for 
the  man,  but  it  should  represent  his  character  and  ideals  in  as  at- 
tractive a  manner  as  possible,  so  that  his  endeavors  may  receive  in 
On  the  occasion  of  an  academic  anniversary  in  1827  another  medal  was 
coined  by  the  academy,  showing  on  the  front  Scheele's  bust  and  on  the  reverse 
a  veiled  figure  of  Isis,  whose  veil  Hermes  tries  to  disclose. 
When  a  monument  was  erected  at  the  occasion  of  the  one  hundred  and 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  Scheele's  birth  in  1892,  the  Swedish  Apothecaries' 
Society  had  an  aluminum  medal  made  showing  on  one  side  a  relief  bust  of 
the  Scheele  Monument,  with  this  inscription:  "Carolo  Guilmo  Scheele, 
pharmaceutae  chemico  grati  cultores  Ordo  pharmaceutia  Suecia."  The  reverse 
shows  a  relief  picture  of  Scheele's  house  in  Koeping  and  the  inscription  : 
"  Domestici  parietes  ipsum  non  famam  continuerunt." 
