OPENING ADDBESS, EXETER, 1869. 

 (Eroffnungsrede der Pharm. Conference zu JExeter.) 



GENTLEMEN, The custom which has hitherto prevailed at ises. 

 the annual meeting of the British Pharmaceutical Conference 

 imposes on the President for the time being the duty of initiat- 

 ing the proceedings by a few preliminary remarks, or as our 

 secretaries are pleased to call it an address. Properly to 

 perform this duty is to me no easy task, but it would be still 

 less so if I could not commence by congratulating you on the 

 growing usefulness and importance of our association. Last 

 year we met in an eastern capital : our sixth anniversary brings 

 us to the west of England, to find in the good city of Exeter a 

 welcome no less cordial and fraternal than we have experienced 

 on any previous occasion. Had the Pharmaceutical Conference 

 no other merits, we might say that at least it gave the oppor- 

 tunity of some agreeable relaxation, an excuse for breaking 

 away for a week or more from the routine occupations of busi- 

 ness, an occasion for visiting a locality which one might other- 

 wise have no particular object for seeing, and of social and 

 friendly intercourse, to which often attach the most pleasant 

 recollections. But our Conference claims more than this ; and 

 the report of our meeting last year at Norwich would prove, 

 were it necessary, that the advancement of scientific pharmacy Advance of 

 is one of the very principal objects with which our association iiarmac y- 

 is concerned. 



On that occasion, it will be remembered, a portion of two 

 sittings was occupied in a very animated discussion of the 



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