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Ordinary Meeting, November 4th, 1873. 
R. Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.RS., &c.. Vice-President, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. Joseph R. Bridson, Mr. James Watkins, and the Rev. 
William Marshall, B.A., were elected Ordinary Members of 
the Society. 
The Chairman said that the death of Dr. Calvert, one of 
the most distinguished members of the Society, called for 
more attention than he was able to give it, but this meet- 
ing of the society could not be allowed to pass over without 
a few words regarding the loss which all chemists must feel. 
It will no doubt be the pleasant duty of some of his friends 
to prepare a more detailed account of his labours. Mean- 
time he (the Chairman) would express the opinion of all 
who knew Dr. Calvert by saying that a more diligent 
student of chemistry has rarely if ever been found in any 
country. It has been remarked that Dr. Calvert’s knowledge 
of the literature of science was something marvellous. This 
was doubtless owing to his devotion to the subject and his 
untiring activity and strength. The memoirs which he 
has written are too numerous to be characterized at present, 
and already several journals have given the heads of the 
most important. As a medium of communication between 
scientific men, manufacturing and professional, in France 
and England, he was no doubt the means of doing much good 
in both countries. In the former country he felt almost as 
much at home as in the latter, having lived there from the 
time he was fourteen years of age until he was twenty-eight, 
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