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Editorials 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm- 
i      March,  1892. 
EDITORIAL. 
The  Fliickiger  Memorial. — After  a  long  period  of  activity  as  a  teacher  of 
pharmacy  and  pharmacognosy,  Professor  Fliickiger  is  about  to  vacate  his  chair 
at  the  University  of  Strassburg,  with  the  view  of  enjoying  the  well-merited 
rest.  The  hearty  good  wishes  of  hosts  of  pharmacists  and  scientists  will  follow 
him  to  his  retirement.  To  give,  in  a  measure,  expression  to  the  sense  of  obli- 
gation for  his  numerous  contributions  to  science  in  general,  and  to  pharmacy 
in  particular,  an  international  committee  has  been  formed,  representing  nearly 
every  country  of  Europe,  as  well  as  each  of  the  remaining  continents.  This 
committee  has  issued  an  appeal  which  explains  itself,  and  which  we  publish  in 
full  with  the  names  of  the  members  of  the  committee  attached. 
APPEAR. 
At  the  end  of  this  term  Professor  Fliickiger,  of  Strassburg,  gives  up  his 
university  career  in  order  to  retire  to  private  life  in  Switzerland,  his  native 
country.  Since  he  first  became  University  teacher  in  1861,  he  has  given  to  the 
whole  pharmaceutical  world  such  wealth  of  valuable  work,  and  has  been  so 
indefatigable,  both  as  teacher  and  investigator,  that  we  deem  it  our  duty  to 
thank  him  in  due  form.  For  this  reason  a  committee  has  been  formed  of  the 
representatives  of  every  nation  to  collect  contributions  that  we  may  express 
our  gratitude  to  this  scholar  who  is  so  well-known  in  all  places  where  the  phar- 
maceutical, chemical  and  pharmacognostical  sciences  are  studied. 
In  the  first  place  we  think  of  drawing  up  an  address  with  the  signatures  of 
the  donors  ;  secondly,  we  think  of  collecting  the  photographs  of  friends  and 
colleagues  in  all  countries  ;  then  we  want  to  have  a  "  Fliickiger  Medal  "  struck, 
on  the  further  destination  of  which  Prof.  Fliickiger  himself  will  have  to  deter- 
mine ;  and  lastly,  we  purpose — if  means  permit — to  establish  a  "Fliickiger 
Foundation." 
The  committee  here  named  wish  to  bring  this  before  as  many  as  possible 
of  those  who  are  interested  in  the  same  branches  of  science,  and  who  can  esti- 
mate the  worth  of  Fliickiger's  works. 
Bach  of  the  members  of  the  committee  will  be  glad  to  receive  contributions, 
which  may  also  be  sent  directly  to  Professor  Tschirch  at  Bern  (Switzerland). 
Photographs,  if  possible  in  carte-de-visite  (or  cabinet  form),  should  be  sent  to 
Prof.  Tschirch. 
We  beg  that  the  name  of  the  donor  be  inclosed  with  the  photograph  or  dona- 
tion on  a  piece  of  white  paper  50  millimetres  broad. 
THE  FXUCKIGER  COMMITTEE. 
J.  Attfield,  Ph.  D.,M.A.,  F.R.S.,  F.I.C.,  F.C.S.,  Professor  of  Practical 
Chemistry  to  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  in  London,  W.  C.,. 
17  Bloomsbury  Square. — Dr.  H.  Beckurts,  Professor  of  Pharmaceutical  Chem- 
istry at  the  Technische  Hochschule  of  Braunschweig. — Dr.  R.  Bohm,  Professor 
of  Pharmacology  to  the  University  of  Leipzig. — Dr.  Chr.  Brunnengraber , 
Senator  at  Rostock. — Dr  L.  A.  Buchner,  Obermedizinalrath,  Professor  of 
Pharmacy  to  the  University,  and  Mitglied  der  Akademie  der  Wissenschaften  in 
Miinchen. — M.  Carteighe,  F.I.C.,  F.C.S.,  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  Great  Britain  in  London,  W. ,  180  New  Bond  Street—  Alp  house  De 
Candolle,  Membre  de  l'Institut  in  Geneva. — Dr.  R.  Demme,  Professor  of  Phar- 
