Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  r 
March,  1901.  J 
Correspondence. 
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Dear  Sir  : — I  have  received  your  kind  favor  of  the  9th  inst.,  and 
I  am  very  sorry  that  I  did  not  read  the  editorial  of  last  November 
in  your  esteemed  Journal.  However,  I  have  read  the  replies  pub- 
lished in  your  February  Journal. 
If  William  Procter,  Jr.,  the  father  of  American  pharmacy,  is  to  be 
commemorated  in  a  befitting  manner,  by  all  means  let  it  be  a  life- 
size  statue  of  purest  Carrara  marble.  And  place  the  statue  in  the 
most  conspicuous  place  in  the  country.  Place  it  in  company  with 
the  other  great  men  of  our  country,  whose  marble  statues  adorn 
Monument  Hall  in  the  Capitol,  at  Washington.  This  would  be  my 
first  choice. 
As  my  second  choice,  the  Procter  Memorial  Laboratory,  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  would  be  splendid,  indeed.  (Not  the  choice, 
but  the  laboratory.)  It  was  a  little  difficult  to  decide  first  and 
second. 
Certainly,  Philadelphia  has  first  claims  on  her  illustrious  son,  but 
since  he  is  a  national  figure,  his  monument  should  stand  where  the 
monuments  of  the  most  illustrious  sons  ot  the  nation  stand,  and 
that  is  Washington.  G.  H.  Chas.  Klie. 
Dear  Sir: — The  suggestion  of  Mr.  Arny  is  precisely  that  which 
I  have  had  in  mind.  No  doubt  the  endowment  of  a  scholarship 
would  be  an  appropriate  memorial  to  the  "  Father  of  American 
Pharmacy,"  but  gifts  would  not  be  as  freely  made  to  a  scholarship 
connected  with  any  particular  school  as  they  would  to  something 
in  which  all  sections  alike  would  feel  that  they  had  equal  share. 
A  research  laboratory  is  the  pressing  need  to-day  of  our  profes- 
sion. It  will  cost  money  to  build  and  equip  such  a  laboratory.  It 
seems  to  me  that  the  money  can  be  raised  in  no  easier  way  than  in 
connection  with  a  memorial  to  Wm.  Procter. 
I  believe  that  the  laboratory  may  be  made  self-supporting  from 
the  beginning.  We  have  at  present  no  means  of  procuring  such 
drugs  as  belladonna  of  standard  strength.  The  consumers  of  such 
drugs  would  willingly  pay  half  a  cent  a  pound  lor  an  article 
accompanied  with  a  guaranteed  assay.  The  laboratory  could 
furnish  such  certified  assays  for  one-half  that  amount,  so  that  there 
would  be  a  profit  to  the  laboratory  and  to  the  dealer.  One  would 
suppose  that  all  pharmacists  would  prefer  the  assayed  drugs  and 
willingly  pay  the  higher  price  for  them.    With  more  strict  require- 
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