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meetings have been frequent, as our work has been along similar lines, and each meeting has brought a deeper appreciation of the many fine traits that Schlotterbeck possessed. Quiet and unassuming, yet conscious of his own powers and of the responsibility they brought to him, a deep student and yet a good comrade, Schlotterbeck was a man that American Pharmacy and American Chemistry can ill afford t o lose. COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY H. V. ARNY
together what was the beginning of the Sy&eur Scientific Laboratories and their lives were united in thought, purpose and ambition-the one was an inspiration t o the other. Von Isakovics was a genius in the particular field of chemistry t o which he devoted his talents. He combined a high character, a lovable nature, with thorough scientific knowledge and exceptional commercial and executive abilities. It will be readily understood that it was uphill work to build up such a business NEWY O R K C I T Y monument as he left, in the face of severe competition which was backed by unlimited capital, but he always said it could be done and he would succeed. ALOIS VON ISAKOVICS The secret of his success has been his never failing business It was a terrible shock to all when we learned that our dear friend and colleague, Alois Von Isakovics, had passed away in the policy, t o give his customers exactly what he said he would. prime of his life on June 5 a t his residence in Monticello, N. Y . , There was never in his mind anything “good enough;” only the “best” that science could produce would he offer his clients, after a comparatively short illness. He has thrown away many a pound of valuable materials beAlois Von Isakovics was born in Prag, Bohemia, July 20, 1870, the son of a distinguished military family. His father, cause they did not comply with his idea of quality. He had an officer of high rank in the Austrian army, had mapped out often said he did not care how much the loss might be in dollars and cents so long as his conscience was clear and he gave his for his only son a military career, and was greatly disappointed when the young son showed by his independent character that clients the very best possible value. It was his cherished wish that should he ever be taken away he did not believe army life would appeal t o him. When a very small boy he started a little business of his own, collecting his wife should go ahead in the same way as they had done stamps and selling them, working a t this after school and often together for the past 28 years and finally he hoped that his only late into the night, and before he left Europe this business, son, Alois Von Isakovics, Jr., would take up the work. Mrs. built up entirely by himself, had grown to such a s h e that he Von Isakovics has been connected with the business from the found it necessary t o employ several of his school friends to help day it was started by her late husband and it is her intention him with his correspondence and filling of orders. His aim t o take up the work where he has left off and t o carry out his already in early life was t o have an international business and ideas in every detail. Von Isakovics was endowed with those qualifications which this he enjoyed even when a boy, as he received orders for his go t o make up a n ideal man. His intelligence, honesty and fairstamps from all over the world. After finishing his general education, which comprised the ness combined with his superior ability placed him in a position regular curriculum of a young man of good European family, to be known all over the country and in many foreign lands. he came in the Spring of 1886 t o America, the land of freedom At the time of his death he was a member in the following Scienand unhampered development. At first the battle was hard tific and Social Societies : American Chemical Society, American and the little money he brought with him soon gave out, but Electrochemical Society (charter member), American Pharmapossessed with a grim determination t o win and a never ceasing ceutical Association, Manufacturing Perfumers’ Association, ambition, he accepted some very menial positions until he had Chemists’ Club, Franklin Institute, New York Academy of mastered the English language and thus was started a t the foot Science (Fellow), American Association for the Advancement of the ladder, the top of which he so gloriously had reached a t of Science (Fellow), Society of Chemical Industry, and Verein Deutscher Chemiker. the time of his death. His great professional triumphs are recorded on the pages of I n October 1888, he met Miss Marie Upshur, the daughter of a historic Southern family, which seemed t o have been a real case scientific and practical literature such as : “Synfleur Heralds,” of “love a t first sight.” They became engaged in July 1889, Synopsis of Columbia University Lectures on “Perfumes and and after he was naturalized in 1892, in New York City, they Flavoring Materials,” and “Essential Oils, Synthetic Perfumes were married in July 1895, a t the Church of the Transfiguration, and Flavoring Materials,” Chapter XXIX, in Rogers and just twenty-five years after her parents were married there by Aubert’s “Industrial Chemistry.” Von Isakovics was a devoted husband, a kind father and a the same minister, the Rev. Dr. Houghton. Their love remained ever young and devoted after twenty-two years of an sincere friend. WILLIAMDREYFUS unbroken union of happiness and bliss. They worked up NEWY O R K CITY
I N O T E SANDCORRESPONDENCE, CALENDAR OF MEETINGS American Pharmaceutical Association: Indianapolis, Indiana, August 27 t o September 13, 1917. American Chemical Society: Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass., September IO to 16, 1917. National Exposition of Chemical Industries (Third): Grand Central Palace, New York City, September 24 to 29, 1917. American Electrochemical Society: Autumn Meeting, Pittsburgh, October 3 to 6, 1917. National Paint, Oil and Varnish Association: Annual Convention, Chicago; October 8 to IO, 1917. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Mo., October 8 t o 13, 1917.
THE TEACHING OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry:
To no one engaged in analytical chemistry, whether as practitioner, teacher, or original investigator, can the recent address by Dr. Hillebrand on “Our Analytical Chemistry and Its Future,”’ fail t o be stimulating and full of suggestion. It is not to be expected that the universities can turn out experienced analysts, but the chemical world has a right t o expect our institutions t o turn out men who have a capacity for becoming reliable analysts after reasonable experience. Dr. Hillebrand suggests that in this the universities have, in a large number of instances, failed; and those who have had opportunity of in1
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