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Notes  and  News. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\   December,  1909. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
Mr.  Mahlon  N.  Kline,  First  Vice-president  and  Chairman  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
died  suddenly  of  heart  disease  Saturday  evening,  November  27,  in 
his  64th  year.  Mr.  Kline  was  president  of  the  wholesale  drug  firm  of 
Smith,  Kline  and  French  Co.,  and  a  prominent  member  of  the 
National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association  and  other  pharmaceutical 
organizations.  He  was  actively  identified  with  civic,  philanthropic, 
and  religious  work,  and  was  a  reformer  in  municipal  politics.  Mr. 
Kline's  passing  away  will  be  a  national  loss  to  pharmacy.  A  sketch 
of  his  life  and  work  will  appear  in  a  later  issue  of  this  Journal. 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Searby  Letters. — 
Professor  Edward  Kremers,  Historian  of  the  Historical  Section, 
has  sent  out  the  following  letter : 
While  the  principal  duty  of  the  Chairman  and  Secretary  of  the 
Historical  Section  is  to  provide  a  program  for  the  sessions  of  this 
section,  the  duties  of  the  Historian  continue  from  one  annual  meet- 
ing to  another.  Possibly  there  are  no  more  important  historical 
documents  that  we  can  collect  at  the  present  time  than  letters  written 
by  leaders  in  American  pharmacy.  Thus  special  endeavors  have 
been  made  to  collect  the  correspondence  of  such  men  as  Rice, 
Maisch,  Ebert,  and  others.  All  material  of  this  sort  should  be 
sent  to  the  Historian.  If  the  letters  are  confidential  they  can  be 
sealed  and  marked  with  the  date  when  they  are  to  be  released. 
Recently  the  pharmaceutical  press  has  announced  the  untimely 
death  of  Professor  Searby.  Possibly  no'  pharmacist  on  the  Pacific 
Coast  has  been  more  conspicuous  than  he.  His  correspondence  on 
numerous  subjects  must  have  been  extensive.  It  ought  to  be  pos- 
sible to  fill  an  entire  scrap  volume  with  letters  from  our  Ex-Presi- 
dent before  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  A.  Ph.  A. 
The  American  Materia  Medica.— The  third  of  the  series  of 
special  lectures  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  deliv- 
ered on  Thursday,  November  4,  at  3.30  p.m.,  in  the  college  museum 
by  Prof.  John  Uri  Lloyd,  of  Cincinnati,  who  spoke  "  Concerning  the 
American  Materia  Medica."  The  lecture  will  be  published  in  full  in 
a  subsequent  number  of  this  Journal.  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington 
presided,  and  in  introducing  Professor  Lloyd  characterized  him  as 
a  hard  worker  who  writes  books  for  recreation  and  one  who,  while 
he  makes  his  home  in  Cincinnati,  is  yet  a  citizen  of  the  world. 
Among  the  auditors  on  this  occasion  was  Dr.  H.  W.  Wiley,  Chief 
of  the  Bureau  oi  Chemistry;  Washington,  D.  C. 
