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this terrible war, of a whole- time Professor of Pharma- 

 cology, while the Hospital for Tropical Diseases now being con- 

 structed entirely by public contributions, will afford additional 

 and excellent scope for the very difficult work of testing 

 clinically any drug whose physiological action may have been 

 worked out by the pharmacologist. We also have at the Museum 

 in Dr. Carter, who is kindly showing some specimens of medici- 

 nal plants to-night, an Economic Botanist to collect plants 

 for analysis and search for alkaloids, etc. The one missing link 

 is the retired and not yet replaced analytical chemist with 

 a special knowledge of the highly technical subject of the 

 chemistry of the alkaloids, etc., whose vacant post I sincerely 

 trust will be adequately refilled without unnecessary delay. 

 Then the investigation of indigenous drugs and the extraction 

 of their active principles, to enable their physiological and 

 therapeutical properties to be worked out in the Calcutta 

 research laboratories and our great hospitals, may proceed on 

 scientific line3 at a greatly accelerated pace, and can hardly 

 fail to furnish new and important additions to the armentarium 

 of physicians all over India. If my address to-night helps 



forward this much-to-be-desired advance I shall not have 

 spoken in vain. 



♦ 



The President announced the election of Officers and 

 Members of Council for the year 1916 to be as follow : 



President : 



Lieut.-Col. Sir Leonard Rogers, Kt., CLE., M.D., B.S , 

 F.R.C.P, F.R.C.S., P.A.S.B., LM.S. 



Vice-Presidents : 



The Hon. Justice Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, Kt C S I 

 D.L., D.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.R.A.S., F.A.S.B. 



Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, (ME MA 

 F.A.S.B. 



H. H. Hayden, Esq., CLE., D.Sc, F.R.S., B.A., B.A.I. 

 F.G.S., F.A.S.B. 



N. Annandale, Esq., D.Sc, C.M.Z.S., F.L.S., F.A.S.B. 



Secretary and Treasurer : 



General Secretary :— F. H. Gravely. Esq., D.Sc 

 Treasurer: — R. D. Mehta, Esq., CLE. 





