REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP. 21 bers of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, also a leading member of the "Boston Druggists' Association." He was a man of sterling character and was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. Deceased was one of the old members of our Association, having connected himself with it in 1853, at Boston. W. C. Milburn, of Washington, D. C., died near Alexandria, Va., August 7th, 1891, aged 50 years. He was born in Alexandria, Va., and was educated at Hallowell's School in that city, and was apprenticed to the drug business in 1860. In 1866, he purchased a pharmacy in Washington, D. C., and continued in business until a short time before his death, when ill health compelled him to dispose of his store. He was a member of the first graduating class of a school of pharmacy at the National Capital, for many years a member of the National College of Pharmacy, and served for some time as one of its Trustees. Mr. Milburn, although fond of ladies' company, never married. His character was open, frank and sincere. He never hesitated to maintain his convictions, yet he was not disposed to thrust his opinions on any one uncalled for. He belonged to a family of pharmacists, and himself and three brothers belonging to that profession, the oldest one, Mr. Jno. A. Milburn, being the Washington agent of our organization. On August 11, 1891, the National College of Pharmacy, at a meeting called for the purpose, passed resolutions in memory of their deceased fellow member and associate. It may well be said of him that in his death the public has lost an upright and valuable citizen, the poor a kind friend, and the profession of pharmacy a willing worker and a skilled and conscientious member. He became a member of our Association at the meeting held in Washington, D. C., in 1883. fno. A. Niebrugge, of Brooklyn, New York, died there of pneumonia, brought on by an attack of the "grippe." Deceased after receiving a good education in the public and private schools, commenced the study of pharmacy, and after preparing himself to conduct a drug store, he began business on his own account, which proved successful, due to his strict attention to business and the honest manner in which his patrons were treated. He was respected by all who knew him. Deceased became a member of our Association at the meeting held in the City of New York, in 1860. Jesse W. Rankin died at his residence in the city of Atlanta, Ga., on February 25, 1892. Mr. Rankin was born in Quincy, Florida, July 19, 1839, from which place his family removed soon after to Louisiana. Here they remained six years, when another move was to Georgia, where settlement was made at Woodstock, in Oglethorpe county. The boy was early thrown upon his own resources, for when he was but seven years old his father died, which event was followed soon after by the death of his mother. The youth, however, gained an education in Woodstock, and at about the age of seventeen moved to Augusta, Ga., where he started in the drug business as clerk. He was married at Augusta, in 1860. Leaving Augusta about 1869, he became a partner in the firm of Hunt, Rankin & Lamar, of Macon, and managed that business for eight years, till 1875, when the firm establishing a house in Atlanta, he removed to that city to assume charge of the new enterprise. Shortly after this change his wife died; subsequently he married again, and at his death left nine children. Deceased organized the Swift Medical Company in 1876, and remained at its head until his decease. He was a man of marked ability, and owing to his judgment, skill and enterprise, the many things which he took hold of were successful. Personally, he was popular, highly esteemed and beloved, hence his loss will be keenly felt by his business associates and his many friends. He became a member of our Association at the meeting held in Toronto, Canada, in 1877. Isaac N. Reed, of Toledo, O., died at his residence, in that city, October 3d, 1891. The cause of his death was consumption, from which disease he had been suffering for a long time, and which was caused and greatly aggravated by the hard and unceasing labor which Mr. Reed has always put upon his business. He was born in Lucas Co., Ohio, November 24th, 1846, and at the time of his death was 45 years of age. When 13 years of age he was employed on one of the railroads, up to this time having received no education whatever. When 15 years of age he started to school. His progress was so rapid that at 18 he entered Baldwin University, where he received the first lessons in the profession which became his life-work. After graduation he taught school for a term, but at the close of this time his health was so impaired that he was compelled to seek employment in the open air. He again found employment with the railroad, where he remained for several years. In 1871 he purchased the interest of M. W. Plain in the wholesale drug firm of Plain, Williams & Co., of Toledo. The firm was reorganized under the name of Reed, Williams & Co., and did an extensive business for about three years, when an opportunity was presented to him to purchase the retail store at the corner of Summit and Madison streets, which he managed until his death. During the fifteen years which he conducted this business, his success has been such that he has made himself widely known among the pharmacists of the country. He was a zealous and active worker in the cause of pharmacy and its elevation to a profession. In 1881 he was elected President of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association. He did much in the way of obtaining proper legislation as regards pharmacy, and his, "Reed's Pharmacy Act," as a law for controlling and directing the practice of pharmacy, is well known in the United States. He was one of the five wholesale druggists who met in Toledo in 1875 and organized the Western Wholesale Drug Association, from which has sprung the National Wholesale Druggists' Association. His wife and five children survive him. He was elected a member of our Association at Kansas City in 1881. William C. Schiller was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and at the early age of one year was brought by his parents to Baltimore, Md., where he grew up, securing his preliminary education at Scheib's Zion School in Baltimore. At the age of 17, he entered the pharmacy of the late firm of Moore & Dieffenbach, soon after attending lectures at the Maryland College of Pharmacy, from which he graduated with first honors in 1874. After clerking for a number of years in Baltimore and Washington, D. C., he bought out an established pharmacy in South Baltimore, which he conducted until his death with the greatest zeal, his reward being a prosperous and remunerative business. Mr. Schiller was a refined gentleman and intelligent pharmacist, a devoted husband and kind father, and his memory will always be kept green by those who knew him best. He was married; a wife and two children survive him. In 1890, at the meeting held at Old Point Comfort, Va., he was elected a member of our Association. Waller A. Walling was born in Providence, R. I., January 13th, 1848. He began to learn the drug business in the store of M. B. Smith, 308 North Main St., in 1864, and in 1868 went to New York city, and was under Prof. Chas. E. Seeley, studying chemistry, While in New York he entered Cooper Institute, and was there about two years. He then returned to Providence and re-entered the store of Mr. Smith, remaining one year. In October, 1871, he commenced business for himself on Chalkstone Avenue. In 1880, he bought the store of Mr. Smith where he formerly clerked, and continued running both stores up to the time of his death, which occurred October 26th, 1891. Deceased became a member of our Association in 1886, at the meeting held in Providence, R. I. H. Weichsel, of Dallas, Texas, died there, aged 53 years. Deceased was a native of Germany. After having received a collegiate education, he commenced the study of pharmacy by entering a drug store in Brunswick. In 1863, Mr. Weichsel arrived in America. After clerking several years, in 1867 he went into business for himself in Cleveland, O., which he conducted successfully until 1884. Owing to bad health he removed to La Porte, Ind. Not finding the desired improvement there, he went to Dallas, Tex., about three years ago, where he resided up to the time of his death. He became a member of our Association at the meeting held in Kansas City in 1881. Geo. W. Woodbridge, of Boston, died there of heart failure, June 13th, 1890, after a few days' sickness. Deceased conducted a drug store in Boston for many years with REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP. 23 success. He was beloved and respected by all who knew him. Mr. Woodbridge connected himself with our Association in 1859, at Boston, Mass. Charles Wright, of New Orleans, died on the 22d of June, 1891, (five days after the death of his father, Wm. Wright), of typhoid malarial fever, aged 38 years. Had been 13 years in the business with his father, was a graduate of Pharmacy Class of 1879, Medical Department of the University of La. Deceased bore an excellent character, was possessed of pleasing manners, and was highly esteemed; leaves a wife, but no children. Mr. Wright became a member of our Association at the last meeting, held in the city of New Orleans in 1891. Wm. A. Wright, of Memphis, Tenn., died at his father's residence, Bedford City, Va., December 30th, 1891. He graduated with distinction from the Maryland College of Pharmacy some years ago, and had been steadily rising in his profession ever since, until his untimely death. He entered upon his professional life at Columbus, Miss., whence he went to Memphis, Tenn., where his prospects were very bright. Mr. Wright was a noble young man of very striking character. He was of the very strictest integrity, and one of the most conscientious young men to be found. With a naturally amiable disposition, his gentlemanly and courteous bearing and many virtues won the love and esteem of all those with whom he came in contact wherever he has lived. Mr. Wright at the time of his death was but twenty-three years old. He was elected a member of our Association at the last meeting, held in New Orleans, 1891. Dr. Theophilus Redwood, an honorary member of our Association, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, died March 5, 1892, at Boverton, Glamorganshire, South Wales, in the house where he was born, March 2, 1806. His early education was obtained from his father, who was a schoolmaster in the village named. After spending three years as apprentice to the drug business in Cardiff, he had the good fortune of securing, in 1823, an engagement with John Bell & Co., in London. Faithful in the discharge of all his duties, he was promoted from one position to another, and when Jacob Bell, who was four years younger than Redwood, became connected with the business, a warm attachment between the two was formed, and fostered by their common studies, ripened into friendship which was only severed by the death of Mr. Bell in 1859. In 1830 Mr. Redwood began business on his own account in Crawford street, London, and while building up the dispensing business manufactured some chemicals and pharmaceutical products, devoting especial attention to the perfection of the preparation of extracts in vacuo. When in 1841, through the energetic efforts of Jacob Bell and his associates, the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded, the establishment of a school of Pharmacy was taken in hand, and the publication of the Pharmaceutical Journal commenced, Mr. Bell being the editor and proprietor, but at his death the copyright was transferred to the Pharmaceutical Society. Mr. Redwood acted as sub-editor from the commencement, until at Mr. Bell's death he became editor-in-chief until 1870, and remained a valued contributor to its pages until his retirement from active duties in 1886. Pharmaceutical meetings were inaugurated by the Society in May, 1841, and beginning with January, 1842, were held in the home acquired by the Society at 17 Bloomsbury Square. In the promotion of the objects of these meetings Prof. Redwood was indefatigable; his influence upon their scope and character is best judged from the minutes as published in the Pharmaceutical Journal, which show the vast amount of information that he could impart on all subjects pharmaceutical. Professor Redwood's career as teacher commenced with the opening of the School at Bloomsbury Square in 1842, where he lectured on pharmacy until in 1845, Prof. Fownes, owing to ill health, was compelled to resign the chair of chemistry, when both branches were entrusted to Prof. Redwood, who had already been in charge of the laboratory, opened in 1844 and enlarged the year following, the first one in Great Britain for in struction in chemistry and pharmacy by practical operations in which the students were engaged throughout the day, under the guidance of a professor. To the Chemical Society he served as one of the Secretaries from 1852 to 1865, and then as Treasurer until 1870. He was also Secretary of the Cavendish Society from its foundation in 1864, and Honorary Secretary of a Committee of pharmacists appointed in 1854 to assist in remodelling the London Pharmacopeia. The first British Pharmacopoeia published in 1864 not proving satisfactory, Professor Redwood prepared a new edition, which appeared in 1867, and the addenda in 1874. He was also the pharmaceutical editor of the last edition, published in 1885. When the British Pharmaceutical Conference was organized in 1864, he was made one of the Vice-Presidents, and for two years, 1876 and 1877, he was elected President. In 1869, he represented the Pharmaceutical Society at the International Pharmaceutical Congress held at Vienna, and in 1881 he was made President of the Fifth Congress which convened in London. In 1840, he prepared an English elaboration of F. Mohr's German work on pharmaceutical technics, which was subsequently re-published in Philadelphia, having been edited and adapted for American pharmacists by the late Prof. Wm. Procter. Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia was revised and re-written by Prof. Redwood, and three editions were published in 1847, 1848, and 1857. He also edited several editions of Pereira's Selecta è Prescriptis, and for the abridged edition of 1872 of Pereira's Materia Medica he contributed the portion relating to chemistry and pharmacy. He was public analyst for the county of Middlesex, for the London districts of Holborn and St. Giles, and for the borough of Leeton, assisted in these duties by his son, D. H. Redwood, and by A. J. de Hailes. Prof. Redwood's life was one of well-directed labor, extending over a period of sixtysix years, dating from the commencement of his apprenticeship. That he was appreci ated as a teacher was shown as early as 1850, when about one hundred of his pupils presented him with a costly service of plate as an expression of their gratitude, and later, in 1887, when a subscription was started for the foundation of a scholarship, which was consummated in 1888, and will hereafter be associated with the research laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The value of his labors in science was recognized by the conferring upon him by the University of Giessen, of the degree of Ph.D., when Liebig in 1852 retired from that institution, to accept a chair in Munich. A number of Societies conferred honorary membership upon him; among others, this was done by our Association in 1871, and by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. George W. Sanford, a distinguished British pharmacist, died May 16, 1892, at Cromer, in the same house in which he was born in 1813. It is said of him that since the death of Jacob Bell he had achieved more substantial good for pharmacists than any other member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, of whose Council he was a member for twenty-four years, serving part of the time as Vice-President and as President. It was during his presidency, and largely due to his efforts, that the British Pharmacy Act of 1868 was passed. Deceased was elected an honorary member of our Association in 1882, at the meeting held at Niagara Falls, N. Y. Before closing my report I herewith submit a list of names of members who are in arrears and liable to be dropped from the rolls if they fail to liquidate their indebtedness before the next volume of Proceedings is issued. I desire at this time to return my sincere thanks to all members of the Association who rendered me valuable assistance by furnishing data for the obituaries. I would also request members to notify the Secretary of the Committee on Membership of the demise of members as early as practicable, as it is very difficult to obtain this information. All of the above is respectfully submitted. GEO. W. KENNEDY, Secretary of the Committee on Membership. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. 25 On motion of Mr. Maisch the Council directed the applications for membership to be referred to a Committee of two for scrutiny. Messrs. Whelpley and Fennel having been appointed, attended to this duty, and subsequently reported having examined 290 applications and propositions, upon which they made a favorable report. On motion, the entire list was referred to the Association for action, with a favorable recommendation. Mr. Thompson, Chairman of the Auditing Committee, made a verbal report on the books of the Permanent Secretary and Treasurer, and the bonds in the custody of the Chairman of the Council. The account of the Permanent Secretary is endorsed as follows: rect. W. G. DUCKETT, Washington, June 10, 1892. JNO. A. MILBURN, Auditing Committee. The Auditing Committee's report attached to the Treasurer's books makes the following statement: WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8, 1892. The undersigned, a Committee appoined for the purpose by the Council, have examined the books and accounts of the Treasurer from March 15, 1891, to May 31, 1892, both dates inclusive, have compared the vouchers with the entries in the cash books and also the receipts and deposits, and find them all correct. W. S. THOMPSON, The following report was read, and on motion of Mr. Eliel, accepted, the recommendation adopted, and referred to the Association: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. The Committee respectfully reports that, in accordance with instructions received at the last meeting, a pamphlet was issued containing the minutes of the New Orleans meeting, together with all the papers read, and that this pamphlet was mailed in August last to every member who, at that time, was not in arrears with his annual dues for two years or more. Only a number sufficient for this purpose was issued, and the pamphlet was not for sale. As far as heard from the members were pleased with receiving this duplicate copy of the minutes several months in advance of obtaining the bound Proceedings. The cost to the Association was somewhat less than twenty cents for each member. The Committee suggests that this plan of furnishing to the members each one printed copy, in pamphlet form, of the complete Minutes, as soon as can be done after the meeting, and in advance of the bound copy of the Proceedings, be continued in the future. The thirty-ninth volume of Proceedings was distributed to those entitled early in January. It contains 930 printed pages, of which 138 pages make up the General Index for the volumes 1883-1890. The total cost of publishing, distribution and insurance on the property of the Association-exclusive of salaries, and not including account of the National Formulary-was as follows: |