OPENING ADDKESS. NOKWICH, 1868. 

 (Eroffnungsrede der Pharm. Conference zu Norwich.) 



GENTLEMEN, In accordance with the arrangement made ises. 

 last year at Dundee, we have assembled to hold at Norwich, 

 as usual under the shadow of the British Association, the 

 Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the British Pharmaceutical 

 Conference. 



Instituted at Newcastle-on-Tyne in the year 1863, and Newcastle-on- 

 commencing its labours on a humble and unpretending scale, T y ne - 

 our Society has year by year increased in numbers, while the 

 proceedings of its annual meetings, regularly held now 

 for five years, have by no means retrograded in interest and 

 importance. 



Thus congratulating you on the successful progress and object of the 

 present well-being of our Society, as evidenced by its list of Conference - 

 members, now numbering over 550, as well as by the variety 

 of interesting communications presented at our meetings, let 

 me remark that we must not relax our efforts in promoting that 

 spirit of study and research which so highly contribute to 

 advance the dignity of the profession of pharmacy. The 

 meetings of the British Pharmaceutical Conference are not, 

 indeed, to be precisely measured by the importance of the 

 papers brought before them ; they have another object besides 

 the discussion of scientific subjects, namely, that of binding 

 together with a cord of union the pharmacists of this land, 



