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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1901. 
for  the  honor  conferred  upon  him,  as  well  as  for  the  expressions  of 
encouragement  which  he  has  received  during  the  past  year  ;  but  it 
should  be  borne  in  mind  that  all  the  advance  thus  far  made  is  pri- 
marily due  to  the  able  and  earnest  workers  who  are  members  of  the 
committee,  or  who  have  assisted  the  committee  in  its  labors."  Not- 
withstanding his  modesty,  Professor  Maisch  at  that  time  showed 
upon  whom  the  honor  should  be  placed,  and  for  twenty  years  the 
pharmaceutical  and  medical  professions  have  recognized  that  it  was 
the  character  and  intellect,  the  mind  and  heart  of  Charles  Rice  that 
pre-eminently  made  the  U.S.P.  what  it  is  to-day.  Fortunately  he 
lived  long  enough  to  mould  the  policies  and  direct  the  work  of 
revision  of  the  forthcoming  Pharmacopoeia,  so  that  the  success  of  it  is 
assured.  His  place  cannot  be  filled,  but  his  influence  on  pharmaco- 
pceial  work,  like  that  on  the  National  Formulary,  has  been  so  great 
that  for  all  time  men  will  know  what  to  do  and  how  the  work  should 
be  done.  He  made  the  compass  and  the  chart,  and  while  difficul- 
ties will  present  themselves  and  storms  will  arise,  yet  there  surely 
must  be  those  who  will  be  familiar  with  his  life  and  actions  so  that 
all  will  be  well  in  the  future,  and  the  U.S.P.  will  continue  to  hold  its 
own  for  all  time  to  come. 
Dr.  Rice  never  posed  as  the  reformer  ;  he  knew  too  well  the  ex- 
periences of  men  from  the  time  of  Confucius  to  Emerson  ;  that  what 
was  needed  was  the  work  that  the  present  generation  required  to  be 
done.  He,  knew,  too  that  this  required  the  co-operation  of  every 
one  who  could  contribute  to  it.  He  knew  who  could  work  and  he  had 
them  work.  He  organized  and  led  ;  and  everyone  else  received  the 
honors  and  emoluments  for  the  work.  He  was  satisfied  that  the 
work  was  done.  When  the  convention  of  1890  voted  him  an 
honorarium  of  $1,000,  he  turned  it  back  into  the  Revision  Com- 
mittee Fund  to  pay  others  for  their  labors.  As  chairman  of  the  Revi- 
sion Committee  of  1900  he  was  voted  a  salary,  but  he  never  asked  for 
it  and  had  not,  we  believe,  been  paid  for  his  services.  He  was  the 
ready  worker  at  all  times,  doing  his  own  work  and  that  of  others 
too.  If  the  needed  work  required  him,  it  mattered  not  the  condi- 
tion of  his  health  or  how  much  other  work  he  had  to  do,  he  was 
ready  to  do  it.  When  on  account  of  impaired  health  he  asked  to 
be  relieved  of  the  chairmanship  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  of 
the  A. Ph. A.  in  1878,  and  after  the  chairman  who  succeeded  him  had 
resigned,  and  after  several  ineffectual  attempts  to  induce  other  mem- 
