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search. The scientific publications of that day contain many of 

 his analyses of rare and useful minerals. In 1817 he was ap- 

 pointed Lecturer on Chemistry at the Loudon Hospital ; he also 

 delivered several coui'ses of lectures at the London Institution. 

 Soon after he was appointed by Government Professor of Che- 

 mistry at the Military College, Sandhurst ; he held the Chemical 

 Lectureship at Grainger's School of Medicine in Southwai'k for 

 many years, and was subsequently Lecturer at St. Thomas's 

 Hospital. In 18.22 Mr. Phillips was elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society, and published about this time a paper in their 

 Transactions in conjunction with Dr. Faraday : he often expressed 

 great pleasure in having been the first to introduce this distin- 

 guished philosopher to the Society. 



In 1824 Mr. Phillips published his first Translation of the 

 Pharmacopoeia Loudinensis, and from the celebrity which he had 

 acquired as a pharmaceutical chemist, he was consulted by the 

 College of Physicians, and employed by them in the examination 

 of the chemical preparations described in the edition of the 

 work issued by that body in 1836, which he also translated, 

 adding copious notes. For the last twelve months he has been 

 engaged in further experiments for the College, and was em- 

 ployed on the evening before his illness on his final work, — 

 a Translation of the recently issued London Pharmacopoeia, to 

 which he had devoted much time and labour, ha\'ing collected 

 considerable additional information to be embodied in this Trans- 

 lation, a part of which has already passed through the press 

 In 1839 Mr. Phillips was appointed Chemist and Curator to the 

 Museum of Practical Geology, now in Jermyn Street, which office 

 he held at the time of his death. Scattered thi'ough the Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Society and through the pages of the Annals 

 of Philosophy and the Philosophical Magazine, will be found his 

 numerous contributions to science : all the chemical articles in the 

 " Penny Cyclo])8edia " were contributed by him. 



Richard Phillips was one of the original founders of the Geo- 

 logical Society, the intimate friend of Davy and WoUaston, and 

 enjoyed the personal friendship and esteem of the most celebrated 

 continental chemists. He was for many years a member of the 

 Council of the Royal Society, and for the last two years President 

 of the Chemical Society. He has departed from among us, after 

 a long and active life, beloved and respected by all who knew him. 

 His remains were deposited at the Cemetery at Norwood, many 

 of his scientific friends attending. 



