61 The President's Address. 



than tlie association of man's name with, an object of acknow- 

 ledged ntility to man. 



He Avas especially connected with questions of water- 

 supply and gas (from 1854 to 1861 he was chemical referee 

 to four of the metropolitan gas companies), and also took a 

 j)rominent part in most of the great patent cases, &c., in- 

 volving chemical questions. His scientific activity and 

 earnestness were unabated ; and when, in 1846, the Cavendish 

 Society was founded, Mr. Warington became Secretary for 

 the first three years. In 1849 he commenced experiments 

 on the relations of animal and vegetable life, which resulted 

 in the establishment of aquaria, both for fresh and sea water. 

 He first communicated his results to the Chemical Society in 

 1850. Subsequently, many natural history observations made 

 by him were published in ' Annals of Natural History,' and 

 he delivered a valuable lecture on the Aquarium at one of 

 the Friday evening meetings of the Royal Institution in 1857. 

 He was an active member of the Microscopical Society, and 

 invented a portable microscope for the aquarium. 



He Avas appointed one of the jurors of the Chemical Section 

 of the International Exhibition, 1862; also selected for the 

 Paris Exhibition in 1867, but Avas then unable to attend. 

 In 1864 he was elected a FelloAv of the Royal Society. Mr. 

 Warinscton was Consulting Chemist to the London and Edin- 

 burgh Pharmacopoeia Committees engaged in the preparation 

 of the first ' British Pharmacopoeia,' 1864. He had pre- 

 viously assisted the College of Physicians Avith the ' Pharma- 

 copoeia Londinensis ' of 1850; and edited, Avith Mr. Denham 

 Smith, Phillijis's translation of the same, on the death of the 

 author. He Avas joint editor, Avith Dr. RedAvood, of the 

 ' British Pharmacopoeia,' 1867 ; and assisted Dr. Farre in 

 preparing a condensed edition of Pereira's ' Materia Medica.' 

 FcAv men haA^e passed a life of more continuous and honor- 

 able usefulness. 



He died at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, on Nov. 12th, 

 1867, universally respected and AA'idely lamented. 



The most important of his papers were on the folloAving 

 subjects : 



1. Chemical. — Sulphuret of Bismuth (1831); Chemical 

 Symbols (1832); Chromic Acid, several (1837-41-42); 

 Coloured Films produced by Electro-Chemical Influence 

 and by Heat (1840) ; Molecular Changes in Solid Bodies 

 (1842-43); Biniodide of Mercury (1842); Turnbull's Blue 

 (1848); Animal Charcoal (1845); The Teas of Commerce 

 (1844-52-53); Production of Boracic Acid and Ammonia by 

 Volcanic Action (1855); Refining Gold (1861); besides 

 many minor notes and memoranda. 



