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In 1854 the College of Physicians applied to the Council of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society for aid in the preparation of a new Phar- 

 macopoeia, and a Committee was formed to assist in this object. 

 As President, Mr. Deane was Chairman of the Committee ; and at 

 the special request of the Chairman of the Pharmacopoeia Com- 

 mittee of the College of Physicians, Dr. P. Parre, he retained that 

 position, as the medium of communication between the two bodies, 

 until the Eoyal Medical Council was appointed. 



The death of Mr. Deane occurred on the 4th of April, 1874, at 

 Dover, where he had been detained for a day or two by stress of 

 weather on his way to visit his son in Hungary. Walking from 

 his hotel to the boat he was attacked by sudden pain in the region 

 of the heart, and in a few minutes had ceased to exist. 



The remains of the deceased were removed from Dover to the 

 house where his wife's parents had lived and died, at Coglinge, 

 near Shorncliffe, and were interred in the neighbouring village of 

 Cheriton. 



Mr. Deane will always be remembered as liaving been in the 

 foremost rank of those enlightened men who set themselves 

 the task of dispellmg the thick darkness which surrounded phar- 

 macy thirty years ago, and who by his work in the Pharmaceutical 

 Society has done so much for the advancement of his favourite 

 science. 



Mr. Deane was elected a Pellow of this Society on the 6th of 

 November, 1855. 



John Thompson Dickson, Doctor of Medicine, was a Master 

 of Arts of the University of Cambridge. He became a Mem- 

 ber of the Eoyal College of Surgeons in 1863, and in 1868 he 

 was elected a Member of the Eoyal College of Physicians. 



Dr. Dickson was Lecturer on Mental Disease at Gruy's Hos- 

 pital, Physician to the Infii-mary for Epilepsy, and Superinten- 

 dent of St. Luke's Hospital. Besides various Hospital Eeports, 

 Dr. Dickson was the author of an essay entitled " Matter and 

 Force considered in relation to Mental and Cerebral Pheno- 

 mena," beiug the substance of a paper read by the aiithor be- 

 fore the Medical Society of London in March 1874. He also 

 wrote, in the ' British Medical Journal,' in 1869, a paper " On 

 the Nature of the Condition known as Catalepsy ;" and in the 

 same Journal, in 1870, another paper " On the Nature of the 

 Condition called Epilepsy." In 1871 Dr. Dickson wrote some 



