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/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1      March,  1901. 
ments  such  as  the  new  Pharmacopoeia  will  no  doubt  lay  down, 
many  will  be  compelled  by  State  laws  to  buy  the  assayed  drugs  or 
else  themselves  assay  all  they  buy. 
The  stamp  of  the  Procter  Memorial  Laboratory  would  thus  come 
immediately  to  be  recognized  as  authoritative  in  connection  with 
commercial  values.  Manufacturers  would  quickly  grasp  the  idea 
that  the  value  of  their  products  might  be  also  enhanced  by  a  simi- 
lar stamp  of  endorsement,  if  it  should  be  thought  wise  to  offer  it. 
In  any  case,  I  believe  that  it  would  be  not  too  much  to  require 
that  every  proposed  new  pharmaceutical  should  be  submitted  for 
approval  to  the  Memorial  Laboratory,  which  should  refuse  to  give 
countenance  to  anything  not  exactly  what  it  was  represented  to  be, 
and  should  moreover  withhold  approval  from  anything  whose  bona 
fide  formula  was  withheld. 
It  would  be  expected  that  the  Pharmacopoeial  Revision  Com- 
mittee would  receive  substantial  assistance  in  its  work  by  such  a 
research  laboratory,  reasonable  compensation  being  made  of  course 
for  necessary  expert  work. 
While  Washington  would  be  the  ideal  place  for  the  Memorial 
Laboratory,  it  seems  to  me  that  on  business  considerations  New 
York  would  have  first  claim  on  it.  This  with  other  details  of  the 
project  may  well  be  left  open  for  discussion,  but  in  my  judgment  a 
research  laboratory  would  be  the  most  fitting  tribute  we  could  pos- 
sibly render  to  the  memory  of  Professor  Procter. 
A.  B.Lyons. 
Dear  Sir: — Replying  to  yours  of  February  6th,  I  would  say  that 
I  look  upon  the  different  plans  submitted  for  a  Procter  memorial 
this  way : 
I  would  be  decidedly  in  favor  of  a  "  research  laboratory,"  pro- 
vided a  fund  of  not  less  than  $200,000  would  be  raised.  This,  I 
am  afraid,  cannot  be  done. 
I  do  not  like  the  idea  of  a  "  scholarship,"  because  it  would 
be  extremely  difficult  to  select  the  most  deserving  men  from 
the  many  applicants  scattered  through  the  whole  United  States. 
Scholarships  should  be  attached  to  individual  institutions,  but  I  take 
it  for  granted  that  it  is  the  general  opinion  to  make  this  memorial 
one  of  national  character. 
To  place  a  "  monument,"  such  as  a  bronze  statue  of  Procter,  in 
some  public  and  well-chosen  locality  would  be  highly  appropriate. 
