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Notes  and  News. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1901. 
PERSONAL  NOTES. 
The  Monument  to  Pasteur,  which  is  to  be  erected  in  his  native  town, 
represents,  besides  a  statue  of  Pasteur,  a  figure  personifying  science,  who  is 
holding  a  wreath  of  laurel  toward  Pasteur  and  a  woman  holding  two  small 
children,  who  are  supposed  to  have  been  saved  from  death  by  Pasteur's  dis- 
coveries. 
A  Memorial  Marble  Bust  of  Robert  Brown,  the  eminent  botanist,  has 
been  unveiled  in  the  picture  gallery  of  Marischal  College,  the  University  of 
Aberdeen. 
Walter  Myers'  Chair  of  Tropical  Medicine  has  been  endowed  in  the 
Liverpool  School  of  Tropical  Medicine,  in  memory  of  the  late  Dr.  Myers, 
whose  life  was  sacrificed  in  the  study  of  yellow  fever. 
Emil  Behring,  Professor  of  Hygiene  and  the  History  of  Medicine  at  Mar- 
burg, has  had  conferred  on  him  on  the  occasion  of  the  bi-centenary  of  the 
Prussian  monarchy,  the  patent  of  hereditary  nobility. 
Max  Von  PeTTEnkofer,  Professor  in  the  University  of  Munich  and  the 
eminent  authority  on  hygiene  and  bacteriology,  committed  suicide  on  Febru- 
ary loth,  fearing  that  he  would  become  insane,  which  fear  seems  to  have  been 
well  grounded  as  the  autopsy  subsequently  showed. 
Theodore  Husemann,  Professor  of  Pharmacology  and  Toxicology  of  the 
University  of  Gottingen,  died  unexpectedly  on  February  13,  1901. 
Henry  C.  Blair,  a  prominent  apothecary  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  died  on 
January  7,  1901,  after  a  brief  illness. 
William  R.  Warner,  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Wm.  R.  Warner  &  Co., 
manufacturing  pharmacists,  died  April  3,  1901,  of  apoplexy. 
Hans  M.  Wilder,  well  known  for  his  ability  in  preparing  indices,  in 
translating  and  abstracting  scientific  literature,  and  in  arranging  scientific 
collections,  died  on  January  25,  1901. 
A  Portrait  of  W.  W.  Keen,  the  eminent  surgeon  and  professor  in  the 
Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  has  been  presented  to  that  institution 
by  his  colleagues  and  students. 
G.  A.  Hansen,  the  discoverer  of  the  lepra  bacillus,  will  have  his  sixtieth 
birthday  on  July  29th  celebrated  by  the  erection  of  a  marble  bust,  in  the  Lun- 
gegaard  Hospital,  Bergen,  where  he  discovered  the  bacillus. 
The  RonTGEN  Society  of  London  offers,  as  a  gift  from  its  President,  a 
gold  medal  to  be  awarded  to  the  maker  of  the  best  X-ray  tubes. 
Charles  F.  Chandler,  President  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  city 
of  New  York,  has  been  appointed  by  the  President  a  member  of  the  U.  S. 
Naval  Observatory. 
The  List  of  the  Honorary  Members  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  has  been  increased  by  the  recent  election  to  membership  of  Prof. 
Dr.  Arthur  Meyer,  Marburg,  Germany  ;  Dr.  B.  H.  Paul,  London  ;  Dr.  Charles 
Rice,  New  York  City  (since  deceased)  ;  Helen  A.  Michael,  Boston  ;  Dr.  Charles 
T.  Mohr,  Asheville,  N.  C. 
