Am.  Jour.  Pharm.) 
August,  1901.  J 
.Correspondence. 
occupied  by  the  more  or  less  complete  equipment  of  our  large 
pharmaceutical  manufacturing  establishments,  whose  incentive  is 
not  alone  influenced  by  a  sentimental  love  of  science,  but  rather  by 
the  hope  of  the  material  rewards  following  in  the  wake  of  successful 
discoveries. 
Human  observation  and  experience  teaches  that  the  most  enthu- 
siastic advocates  of  the  ideal  and  abstract  are  the  most  tardy  in 
handing  out  their  cash  in  the  realization  of  the  positive  and  con- 
crete. 
As  an  ample  endowment,  then,  must  be  the  sine  qua  non  to  the 
establishment  of  a  research  laboratory  to  commemorate  the  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  the  con- 
tribution to  that  end  must  be  the  measure  of  the  sentiment  in  its 
favor.  John  F.  Patton. 
York,  Pa. 
Dear  Sir  : — I  should  heartily  favor  the  establishment  of  a 
Procter  Research  Laboratory  provided  some  benign  pharmaceutical 
Croesus  could  be  found  to  furnish  the  necessary  building  fund  and 
an  endowment  of  $250,000  or  more.  Possibly  John  D.  Rockefeller 
or  your  own  John  Wanamaker  can  be  made  to  see  the  desirability 
of  adding  a  sister  institution  to  the  proposed  medical  research 
laboratory  about  to  be  started  by  the  Standard  Oil  magnate.  At 
present  I  feel  confident  that  our  wish  cannot  be  realized  and  some 
more  modest  memorial  must  be  selected.  I  should  favor,  first,  a 
gold  memorial  medal  like  the  Hanbury  testimonial,  to  be  awarded 
every  two  or  three  years  ;  second  a  scholarship  to  be  awarded  every 
two  or  four  years.  The  first  is  more  likely  to  be  realized  as  it  will 
cost  less  money  and  is  more  likely  to  be  within  the  grasp  of  the 
A. Ph. A.  The  second  would  require  a  much  larger  fund  to  be  raised 
by  outside  subscription.  Chas.  Caspari,  Jr. 
Dear  Sir: — Your  request  for  an  expression  of  opinion  with 
regard  to  the  various  suggestions  for  a  suitable  memorial  for  Prof. 
Wm.  Procter  has  received  careful  consideration. 
(i)  The  proposition  to  establish  a  research  laboratory  at  Wash- 
ington is  not,  in  my  opinion,  feasible ;  not  that  the  money  could 
not  be  raised  to  establish  the  laboratory,  but  the  difficulty  would  be 
to  cany  it  on  successfully  for  a  term  of  years.  It  would  be  far 
better  not  to  attempt  such  an  ambitious  scheme,  if  it  were  noi 
