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thousand plants' which were not found anywhere else, 

 and the properties of which had to be ascertained ! 

 What a field this opened for pharmacists. They knew 

 nothing about the properties of the plants until Dr 

 Parker took the subject up. He had worked most 

 assiduously at it, and collected the various materials 

 which the natives used as remedies. During the last 

 year, Dr Parker and his colleague sent home large 

 parcels of plants, about one hundred of which proved 

 to be entirely new species which had never been 

 described previously. Since that they had sent other 

 parcels, which were now awaiting examination. This 

 was the only work of the sort which had been done by 

 Englishmen, and they had carried it out very fully 

 and thoroughly. Botanists entertained a very great 

 sense of the value of their labours, and they could 

 but hope that Dr Parker's health would be restored, 

 and that he would be able to return to Madagascar, 

 and go forward upon the path on which he had entered 

 with so much zeal and assiduity. 



Me Butt asked Dr Parker whether there were any 

 such establishments as pharmacies in Madagascar, 

 or whether the medicines were all distributed by the 

 doctors. 



Mr Stocken said that in his profession of a dentist 

 he felt interested in all new preparations and drugs, 

 for now-a-days the methods of dentists were so 

 conservative, and they found that they could do so 

 much by constitutional treatment and thereby prevent 



