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Committee  ol  Revision  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  is  doing  would 
meet  a  want. 
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It  is  the  custom  of  our  larger  universities  to  honor  the  memory 
of  their  scientists  by  naming  a  laboratory  after  them.  All  of  our 
leading  universities  thus  have  one  or  more  chemical  laboratories 
named  after  one  who  has  proved  his  love  lor  chemical  science  by 
either  making  his  influence  felt  in  that  line  by  his  own  attainments, 
or  by  buying  an  influence  with  an  endowment.  I  do  not  know  of 
any  pharmaceutical  laboratory  thus  honoring  or  honored.  A  Proc- 
ter laboratory  seems  to  me  as  fitting  and  influential  a  memorial  as 
anything  that  could  be  bestowed. 
By  this  I  do  not  mean  simply  a  room  or  building  equipped  and 
stocked  and  with  Professor  Procter's  name  over  its  doors. 
The  real  memorial  would  consist  in  the  spirit  and  policy  within 
the  laboratory.  It  should  have  a  definite  policy,  with  provision  for 
carrying  that  policy  out.  And  all  investigations  should  be  pub- 
lished as  contributions  from  the  Procter  Laboratory,  wherein  the 
real  memorial  would  appear.  It  would  be  not  a  local  but  a  national 
memorial. 
Whether  the  investigations  should  be  carried  on  by  post-gradu- 
ate students  through  scholarships  or  by  a  director  and  assistants  is 
a  matter  of  detail  ;  but  a  continuation  of  the  work  and  aims  of 
Professor  Procter  in  this  way  would,  it  seems  to  me,  be  a  fitting 
memorial. 
Boston,  Mass.,  January  3,  1901 . 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
PROCTER  MEMORIAL. 
In  response  to  a  letter  from  the  Editor  of  this  Journal  concern- 
ing the  most  appropriate  way  of  memorializing  the  life  and  work  of 
Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr.,  the  following  are  some  of  the  replies 
which  have  been  received : 
Dear  Sir: — In  no  other  way  than  by  appropriate  memorials  can 
those  who  live  and  heir  the  good  works  of  those  who  have  gone 
honor  their  names  and  testify  to  the  appreciation  of  their  worth. 
And  in  this  direction  we  who  live  to  heir  the  works  of  the  phar- 
macists who  served  us  loyally  and  well  can  do  no  greater  tribute 
than  to  testify  to  the  works  of  Professor  Procter.    No  more  patient, 
