PROF. WM. PROCTOR, JR., Vice President and Professor of Theoretical and Practical Pharmacy of the Philadelphia Colledge of Pharmacy, died suddenly of heart disease at about a quarter past 12, Tuesday morning, Feb 10th, at his residence, 902 Lombard street, Philadelphia, pa. Professor Proctor was born in Baltimore May 10th, 1817, came to Philadelphia at the age of 13, and entered the drug store of Mr. Henry M. Zollickoffer, where he remained thirteen years. He graduated at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacv in 1837. The subject of his thesis was " Lobelia Inflata." The results of his investigation were given in a carefullv written paper and published in the American Journal of Pharmacy for that year. He was elected a member of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy May 18, 1840, and n member of the Board of Trustees in 1841. In 1843 he opened the drug store on his own account at the southwest corner of Ninth and Lombard, where he continued to carry on business
