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That Professor Flueckiger did not find professional life too rosy a t Strassburg becomes apparent from other letters. The Kaiser-Wilhelms Universitaet was established in 1872 as a "Reichs Universitaet" not as a Prussian or other state university because Elsass-Lothringen were "Reichsland." Not only did Germany expect much from this "Staette deutscher Cultur" in the provinces that had been alienated more or less by long French rule but every effort was made t o attract students to the university. So far as pharmacy was concerned. these expectations were not fulfilled in spite of Professor Flueckiger's reputation, which was an international one. Whether it was the fact that hfs career had not bezn that of the regular German academician, whether i t was due to his being Swiss though Deutsch-Schweirer or whether it was due t o the suspicion with which pharmacy was regarded at 'practically all German univerkties. it might be difficult to decide.
This, the successor to Power as Flueckiger's,assistant. was Dr. Arthur Meyer, later known as author of the "Wissenschaftliche Drogenkunde fuer A published in 1891. Born March 17, 1850, in Langensalza. he studied in Leipzig and Strassburg, at w r c h latte'r place, having received his doctorate in 1887, he accepted an assistantship a t the Pharmaceutical Institute, which position he held until 1885. In that year he became docent at Goettingen and in 1886 Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the Academy at Muenster. In I891 he became Wiegand's successor a t Marburg.
The writer recalls Professor Power's frequent references to Dr. Meyer in the course of our conversation. r y r the pa ers which Dr. Meyer had t o his credit at that time, also for further details and portrait, see B. Reber Gallerie Eervorragender Therapeutiker und Pharmacognosten" (1887), page 47.
'These thoughts were, no doubt, suggested by Dr. Power's happy independent position at Wisconsin. As the date of the letter indicates, this outing was planned between the winter and summer semesters, when German professors enjoy a somewhat longer vacation than do their American colleagues. It had long been a practice of German university professors t o spend part of the spring vacation in Italy or the French Riviera. (Comp., c. g., Strassburger's "Streifzuege an der Riviera;" also Flueckiger's "Osterferien im Sueden" in the Arch.
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