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Corre  spon  deuce. 
( Am..  lour,  f'harm^ 
\      March,  1901. 
services  and  memory  should  be  instituted  by  the  A. Ph. A.,  and  I 
know  of  no  more  fitting  and  permanent  testimonial  than  a  beauti- 
fully executed  silver  medal,  which  is  to  be  known  as  the  Procter 
Medal,  and  which  is  to  be  awarded  annually  by  the  A. Ph. A.  for  the 
most  meritorious  service  rendered  pharmacy  in  any  of  its  depart- 
ments, the  awarding  to  be  done  by  the  Council  of  the  A.Ph.A.,  in- 
cluding the  chairmen  of  the  scientific,  educational,  commercial  and 
practical  pharmacy  sections.  It  will  thus  be  an  honor  worthy  of  the 
man  whose  name  it  bears,  and  its  annual  awarding  will  ever  keep 
fresh  in  memory  the  father  of  our  fluid  extracts,  the  typical  investi- 
gator and  lover  of  science  for  science's  sake,  and  the  man  who  so 
closely  approximated  the  ideal  of  his  race. 
Alfred  R.  L.  Dohme. 
Dear  Sir: — Your  letter  of  the  nth  instant  came  duly  to  hand. 
In  my  opinion  the  most  appropriate  memorial  would  be  a  bust  cast 
in  bronze  by  a  master.  Copies  could  then  be  made  of  alabaster,  of 
which,  I  am  sure,  every  college  of  pharmacy  at  least  would  want  one 
to  place  in  its  halls.  Nothing  in  the  way  of  a  memorial  would  be 
more  classic  and  nothing  would  serve  the  purposes  of  a  memorial 
better,  in  my  opinion.  Frederick  J.  Wulling. 
Dear  Sir  : — Your  esteemed  favor  of  the  7th  inst.  was  received  at 
Detroit  during  my  somewhat  prolonged  absence  from  the  city, 
hence  this  tardy  reply. 
I  favor  the  project  of  a  properly  executed  monument  to  Prof. 
William  Procter,  Jr.,  in  the  form  of  a  statue  to  be  erected  in  some 
central  or  metropolitan  city.  My  own  choice  would  be  Washington. 
The  Capital  is  visited  more  extensively  by  travellers  than  is  per- 
haps any  one  city  in  the  United  States,  barring  New  York,  and  it. 
abounds  in  beautiful  statues  and  works  of  art,  dedicated  to  the 
heroes  of  war,  science  and  literature.  The  monument  to  Procter 
should  be  chosen  with  a  view  to  its  effect,  not  on  the  professional, 
but  on  the  public  mind — such  an  effect  as  is  produced  by  the  strik- 
ing statue  of  Gross,  which  commands  the  entrance  to  the  Army^ 
Medical  Museum  at  Washington.  At  the  present  time  compara- 
tively few,  even  among  the  educated  laymen,  realize  that  pharmacy 
has  produced  its  fair  share  of  great  and  eminent  men.  A  beautiful 
statue  of  Procter,  suitably  placed,  would  help  to  dispel  the  error. 
Joseph  Helfman. 
