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the  suggestions  made  in  the  February,  March  and  April  editions  of 
the  Journal  leaves  me  still  of  my  original  opinion — that  the  best 
memorial  that  can  be  devised  will  be  a  research  laboratory  in  the 
city  of  Washington.  Of  course  such  would  be  a  large  undertaking, 
but  by  no  means  as  expensive  as  some  predict.  The  $200,000 
plant  suggested  by  one  of  your  contributors  would  be  magnificent, 
but  its  magnificence  would  be  chiefly  in  the  direction  of  extrava- 
gance. Twenty  to  thirty  thousand  dollars  would  suffice,  and  be- 
yond that  sum  expenditure  is  hardly  necessary.  A  stately  palace 
of  marble  with  superb  equipment  would  be  expensive,  I  grant ;  but 
do  we  plain  pharmacists  need  such  a  structure  ?  Would  the  plain 
Quaker  whom  we  wish  to  honor  desire  such  a  monument  ?  No! 
Let  us  aim  at  something  simple;  let  our  motto  be  "  Deeds  rather 
than  dazzle;"  let  the  Procter  Memorial  Laboratory  become  known 
by  the  achievements  of  its  workers  rather  than  by  the  gorgeousness 
of  its  facade.  President  Garfield's  famous  saying  relating  to  the 
teaching  capacity  of  Mark  Hopkins,  his  statement  that  a  log  cabin 
and  a  bench  with  his  revered  teacher  at  one  end  and  the  student  at 
the  other,  was  preferable  to  a  college  with  magnificent  equipment 
and  poor  teachers,  is  justly  applicable  in  the  present  case. 
Surely,  it  were  an  infinitely  better  monument  to  Procter  to  have 
a  modest  building  and  equipment  with  zealous  workers,  than  a 
massive  pile  with  nothing  done. 
Let  a  similar  case  be  cited :  The  Lloyd  Library  is,  or  should  be, 
the  pride  of  American  pharmacy.  Its  complete  equipment  is  a 
positive  joy  to  all  engaged  in  research  work,  and  its  fame  has  gone 
forth  to  the  furthermost  parts  of  the  pharmaceutical  world.  What 
matters  it  that  it  is  housed  in  a  modest  building,  with  naught  but  a 
little  tablet  announcing  its  purpose.  Its  fame  comes  from  its  use- 
fulness, not  from  its  personal  appearance. 
Therefore  my  idea  is  that  a  research  laboratory  should  be  started, 
even  though  only  $15,000  were  raised.  Let  a  modest  house  be 
purchased  in  Washington,  and  equipped  for  pharmacopceial  re- 
search work.  If  the  work  emanating  from  the  institution  is  valu. 
able,  it  will  surely  grow  to  greater  things,  and  (as  a  judicious 
investment  in  Washington  realty  rarely  depreciates)  as  further 
funds  are  forthcoming,  the  first  modest  home  might  be  sold  and  a 
more  pretentious  plant  erected.  For,  let  it  be  said  in  passing,  the 
writer  does  not  urge  a  cheap  monument  to  the  "  Father  of  Ameri- 
