A,ASSt,i«5fm-}     Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  417 
ing  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  he  was  graduated  there- 
from in  i860.  In  August,  1862,  he  entered  the  Union  Army  as 
Hospital  Steward  of  the  138th  Regiment  of  Pennsylvania  Volun- 
teers, and  served  as  such  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
He  then  secured  the  drug  store  at  Ninth  and  Spring  Garden 
Streets.  He  was  a  man  of  sterling  qualities,  and  successfully  con- 
ducted his  business  here  for  twenty-eight  years,  when  he  disposed 
of  his  store  and  retired. 
Mr.  Wells  joined  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1872, 
and  was  a  life  member.  He  was  a  prominent  Mason,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  Post  No.  2,  G.  A.  R.  He  was  a  director  of  the  People's 
Bank.  He  was  greatly  interested  in  the  work  ot  the  Spring  Garden 
Soup  Society,  of  which  he  was  President  for  many  years. 
Mr.  Wells  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth 
Walker,  of  Chester  Valley,  who,  with  one  daughter,  Hepsey  Norris 
Wells,  survives  him. 
For  several  years  Mr.  Wells  had  been  in  declining  health,  and 
had  two  slight  strokes  of  paralysis  within  a  year.  He  died  suddenly 
on  July  19,  1900,  of  angina  pectoris,  in  Chester  Valley,  where  he  and 
his  wife  and  daughter  had  been  accustomed  to  spend  the  summer 
months.  C.  A.  W. 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
The  quarterly  meeting  of  the  members  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy was  held  June  24,  1901,  the  President,  Howard  B.  French,  in  the  chair  ; 
twenty-five  members  were  present.  The  minutes  of  the  annual  meeting,  held 
March  25th,  were  read  and  approved  as  read. 
The  minutes  of  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  April  and  May 
were  read  by  the  Registrar,  W.  Nelson  Stem,  and  approved  as  read.  The 
minutes  of  the  June  meeting  were  not  read,  the  President  ruling  that  as 
they  had  not  been  approved  by  the  Board  it  would  be  premature  for  the  College 
to  approve  them. 
Mr.  Beringer,  for  the  Committee  on  Necrology,  presented  the  report  for  the 
year.  He  stated  that  he  had  been  assisted  by  other  members  of  the  College 
and  would  read  the  memoirs  except  that  of  Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb  by  title,  and 
moved  their  acceptance  and  that  they  be  referred  to  the  editor  of  the  Journal 
for  publication.    So  ordered. 
Memoirs  were  presented  of  August  Weber,  prepared  by  Gustavus  Pile  ;  of 
Wm.  R.  Warner  and  Dr.  Lawrence  Turnbull,  prepared  by  George  M.  Beringer  ; 
James  G.  Wells,  prepared  by  Dr.  C.  A.  Weidemann  ;  of  Dr.  E-  R.  Squibb  and 
Hans  M.  Wilder,  by  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington ;  of  Dr.  Theodore  Husemann, 
by  Prof.  Henry  Kraemer. 
The  Committee  on  Resolutions  on  the  death  of  Dr.  Charles  Rice,  consisting 
