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Am.  Jour.  Pharm, 
April,  1901. 
service  to  pharmacy  and  properly  commemorating  the  life  and  work 
of  Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr.,  I  reply  to  your  request  of  the  5th  inst. 
for  my  personal  opinion. 
Among  the  earliest  and  most  helpful  influences  to  me  of  the 
A.Ph.A.  was  the  ever  earnest,  active  work,  though  always  modest, 
and  the  genial,  lovable  character  of  Professor  Procter.  I  can  never 
forget  him,  and  often  recall  his  approaching  me  with  a  list  of 
"  queries,"  with  the  request  that  I  write  in  response  to  one  or  more. 
At  that  time  I  should  have  undertaken  the  task  of  writing  a  sermon 
or  lecture  upon  the  creation  of  the  heavens  and  the  earth  as  to  pre- 
pare a  paper  for  the  Association. 
Of  all  the  men  I  have  known  in  the  Association,  Professor  Proc- 
ter has  and  does  seem  to  me  to  fairly  represent  what  may  be  termed 
the  "  Good  Shepherd  "  of  pharmacy. 
As  I  sit  in  church  and  see  the  memorial  window  to  our  late  rec- 
tor, representing  in  the  central  figure  the  good  shepherd  with  a 
lamb  in  his  arms,  and  in  the  side  panels  the  four  acts  of  mercy,  I 
have  thought  how  appropriate  and  serviceable  such  a  memorial 
would  be  of  Professor  Procter,  placed  in  the  several  colleges  of 
pharmacy,  a  constant  reminder  of  the  "  Father  of  Pharmacy."  A 
life-size  representation  of  Professor  Procter,  with  his  hand  resting 
upon  a  young  man,  the  Pharmacopoeia  and  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy,  four  or  more  side  panels  representing  such  scenes  as 
could  be  easily  made  up  from  Professor  Remington's  paper,  would 
surely  be  an  impressive,  instructive,  helpful  and  stimulating  influ- 
ence upon  every  student. 
Some  such  work  as  this,  it  seems  to  me,  your  College  should  do  at 
once.  Thus,  at  the  meeting  in  your  city  in  1902,  the  A.Ph.A.  could 
properly  request  the  several  colleges  to  follow  your  example,  and 
for  their  part,  the  A.Ph.A.  to  authorize  the  preparing  of  a  beautiful 
Procter  memorial  certificate,  twenty,  thirty,  fifty  or  more  to  be  dis- 
tributed annually  to  those  worthy,  recommended  by  those  colleges 
who  had  put  in  the  window  or  done  something  of  the  kind,  and 
approved  by  a  special  committee  or  the  Council  of  the  A.Ph.A.  and 
indorsed  by  the  Association. 
The  certificate  should  be  a  fine  engraving,  possibly  of  your  win- 
dow,  accompanied  or  not  by  a  gold,  silver,  aluminum  or  bronze 
medal.    And  what  a  prize  it  would  be  ! 
It  seems  to  me  some  such  plan  as  this  would  be  a  suitable  mem- 
