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Correspondence. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharru. 
\      April,  1901. 
their  recommendations.  I  have  read  with  much  interest  what  has 
been  said  so  well  by  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  editorially, 
and  by  the  correspondents  to  that  journal  upon  this  subject,  and  am 
glad  that  it  is  being  considered. 
The  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  has  emphasized  the  fact  that 
we  are  sadly  in  need  of  advanced  workmen  in  pharmaceutical 
science — men  of  the  Procter  type — in  different  sections  of  our  country. 
It  seems  to  me  that  the  A.Ph.A.  could  aid  very  materially  in  a 
practical  way  if  it  would  take  steps  toward  creating  a  scholarship 
substantially  as  proposed  by  E.  L.  Patch. 
I  referred  to  this  at  some  length  at  a  meeting  of  the  Association 
in  '95  (see  Proc,  p.  425-429,  '95).  After  the  reading  of  the  paper, 
Professor  Oldberg  made  a  motion  that  a  special  committee  be 
appointed  to  consider  the  recommendations  then  made  and  to  report 
at  the  next  annual  meeting  on  the  feasibility  of  carrying  out  the 
recommendations  in  this  paper.  That  nothing  has  been  done  by 
the  Association  seems  to  show,  perhaps,  that  the  time  is  not  quite 
ripe  to  take  up  the  matter  actively.  Now  that  we  may  soon  con- 
sider earnestly  the  question  of  a  Procter  memorial,  I  would  again 
revive  this  motion,  and  place  it  before  the  committee  I  suggest. 
In  suggesting  a  scholarship  or  fellowship,  I  am  not  losing  sight  of 
the  main  point — an  appropriate  memorial  to  one  in  whose  memory  a 
lasting  monument  would  be  a  worthy  token — but  I  am  keeping 
before  me  the  characteristics  of  him  we  are  striving  to  respect.  He 
was  essentially  a  practical  pharmacist.  I  do  not  think  he  himself 
would  consider  long  as  between  an  investment  in  marble  or  bronze 
and  an  endowment  of  a  fellowship  as  an  appropriate  expression  of 
a  distinguished  life  such  as  we  may  seek  to  commemorate.  In  my 
opinion  a  monument  would  be  insufficient  to  memorialize  the  man 
and  inadequate  to  carry  out  what  should  be  the  aims  of  our  worthy 
Association.  If  I  can  do  anything  to  further  the  project  under  con- 
sideration I  shall  be  very  glad.  L.  E.  Sayre. 
Dear  Sir: — Accepting  the  invitation,  kindly  given  by  yourself, 
to  take  part  in  the  discussion,  inaugurated  by  the  American  Journal 
of  Pharmacy,  relative  to  "  memorializing  the  life  and  work  of  Prof. 
William  Procter,  Jr.,"  one  must,  at  the  very  outset,  ask  a  series  of 
questions  that  his  right  to  participate  may  be  assured  and  his  efforts 
be  properly  directed. 
