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of ASPET 1908 - 2008 On the invitation of John J. Abel, 18 pharmacologists met in Abel's laboratory to organize a new society. They elected Abel as Temporary Chairman and Reid Hunt as Temporary Secretary. MINUTES Hunt took three pages of minutes, which he and Abel both signed, and had them mimeographed. Four articles of agreement were unanimously adopted.
FOUNDERS Of the 18 founders, Abel initially used his private address, 3 New Yorkers their office addresses, and all others their university or government affiliation as follows: John J. Abel, Station L, Baltimore, Maryland Carl L. Alsberg, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. John Auer, 13 W. 121st Street, New York, New York City Albert C. Crawford, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Charles W. Edmunds, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan J. A. English Eyster, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia W. Worth Hale, Hygienic Laboratory, 25th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. Robert A. Hatcher, 414 E. 26th Street, New York City Velyien E. Henderson, Pharmacological Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Reid Hunt, Hygienic Laboratory, 25th and E. Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. Arthur S. Loevenhart, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Samuel A. Mathews, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Samuel J. Meltzer, 13 W. 121st Street, New York City William Salant, Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Torald Sollmann, Medical Department, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Maurice V. Tyrode, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Carl Voegtlin, Johns Hopkins Medical School, E. Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland Horatio C. Wood, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania After the New Year of 1909 Abel corresponded repeatedly with C. W. Edmunds on the extension of membership, the draft of the constitution, and publication of JPET. Although the typewriter was available at the time, they frequently wrote in longhand to each other and to other members of the Council. It should be noted that the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics started out as a joint project between Canada and the United States because V. E. Henderson was from the University of Toronto. The founders first thought of calling the new society the American Pharmacological Society, but this was already in use by a commercial group, so they chose a different name and made it longer by adding "Experimental Therapeutics" - chiefly to emphasize the relation to chemotherapy and a prophecy of things to come. This was revealed by T. Sollmann in his after-dinner speech in Detroit on April 21, 1949. It now appears very appropriate in view of the establishment of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology. In fact, many of the papers published in JPET throughout the years conform to the true meaning of the last two words of ASPET. Chen, K. K., The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics - The First Sixty Years 1908-1969, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1969.
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