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THE CHEMIST AND DKUGGIST 
October 5, 1895 
r^ifetingai&hed man of science in France, whose death has 
just occurred — one of those quiet retiring: men, who do not 
understand diplomacy, and wtio would not beab-ent fora day 
from their work at any cost. He writes that his duties com • 
mence on October 1, and it will be utterly impossible for 
him to receive personally the medal which has been con- 
ferred upon him. In his absence a representative of the 
Austro-Hungarian Embassy, Count Siegfried Clary, is in 
attendance to receive it, and in the name of the committee 
of judges, and with the congratulations of the members of 
that body to which Hanbury belonged, I have now the 
pleasure of presenting this medal. 
In concluding, the President said though Professor Yogi 
"was not present he (the President) was able to show his 
portrait framed in the Austrian colours. 
Count Clary, on rising to receive the medal, was received 
with hearty applause. He said : I am very happy to receive 
the medal kindly awarded to Professor Yogi, and very proud 
of the fact that one of my countrymen has been so honoured 
by your Society. I shall forward the medal without delay 
to Professor Yogi. 
Having thus spoken the Count shook hands with the Pre- 
sident and retired. 
Presentation of School Prizes. 
Professor Reynolds Green, Dean of the School of Phar- 
macy, was next called upon to read the report of the work in 
the school last session. We have referred to this in reporting 
the August meeting of the Pharmaceutical Council. One 
new fact came out — viz., that there were eighty-three 
students at the school last year. The actual presentation 
of the prizes was a bib of a fiasco, for only three students 
appeared to received them— viz , Mr. Sydney Davis, who 
took two certificates of honour; Mr. Harold M. Read, who 
got three; and Mr. Harold brown, the hero of the year, who 
received half-a-dozen medals and piles of bcoks and certifi- 
cates. Mr. Brown was also presented with Hanbury’s 
“ Science Papers ” and “ Pbarmacographia ” by Mr. Thomas 
Hanbury, and the President made an appropriate little 
speech. 
Herbarium Frizes. 
Professor Green reported upon this competition. There 
were four competitors, and all were recognised. Mr. Geo. 
V. O. Last, the silver medallist, was present, and was heartily 
received and complimented when the President handed him 
his medal and certificate. Mr. E. G. Martin, who was 
awarded a certificate of honour, was the only other young 
botanist in the room, and his almost boyish appearance won 
for him an enthusiastic reception when he came up to the 
table. 
Council Prizes. 
Mr. Seward submitted the rerorb on the examination of 
pharmaceutical chemists for the Council prizes, and prahed 
highly the men who took them— viz., Mr. Harold Brown, 
Pereira medal, &c. ; Mr. Hemy Fraser, silver medal, &c. ; 
and Mr. F. H. Tully, bronze medal. &c. 
The first two came up to the table to receive the prizes. 
Jacob Bell Scholars. 
After Mr. W. Mubton Holmes had read his report on the 
July competition, Mr. Francis W. Stamp and Mr. George 
Senter, the successful men, were called to the table to 
receive the gift of text-books from the Hills fund. 
The President recommended Mr. Stamp to stamp his 
name on the blackboards ; hub the meeting did not slay 
him, for he was able to inform those present immediately 
after that Mr. Senter is an Edinburgh man, who does not 
spell his name with a “ C.” He then bold the meeting that 
Mr. Harold Brown had been asked to accept the Redwood 
scholarship ; and this brought the prize part of the business 
to an end. 
It was 3.35 when Professor F. T. Roberts rose to deliver 
his address. We are sorry we cannot give a portrait of the 
professor, as he does nob approve of that sorb of thing. A 
pen-portrait cannob do him justice. He stands over 6 feet 
high, and his figure favours rotunoiby ; bub it is carried erect, 
and with somewhat of a military aspect. This latter charac- 
teristic is heightened by the silvery moustache which falls 
over a film mouth. The professor’s face looks weather- 
beaten, and until he rose to speak one would scarcely have 
credited that he would have the audience roaring with 
laughter within thirty seconds ; but so it was, and we must 
ask those who read the following reprint of his address to- 
imagine where the audience punctuated it with laughter andi 
applause : — 
INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. 
By Professor Frederick T. Roberts, M.D,, B.Sc,> 
F.R.C.P. 
Mr. President, Ladies, and Gentlemen, — I e.steem- it 
a very great honour to have been invited to deliver the 
Inaugural Sessional Address on the present occasion, which 
mast be one full of interest to all who have the wel- 
fare of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and its 
associated School of Pharmacy at heart. At the same time 
I am by nature of a very retiring disposibicn, and instinctively 
shrink from any public appearance outside my own particu- 
lar sphere. I therefore really feel acutely conscious of the 
responsibilities of my position, and of the difficulties of the 
task which I have undertaken. They weigh upon me all the 
more because I have had the opportunity of perusing some 
of the addresses previously delivered here under similar 
circumstances, and was truly appalled when I found what 
eminent, learned, and eloquent members of my profession 
I bad to follow. I conclude that I owe my selection 
indirectly to the fact that for many years I have been 
intimately associated with materia medica and therapeutics, 
as professor and examiner, and have even ventured to publish 
a book on the subject. I have a strong impression, however,, 
that the more immediate cause will be found in the circum- 
stance that I number some excellent friends amongst the 
members of the Council, and I hope and believe, Mr„. 
President, that you are somewhat amicably disposed towards 
me. At any rate you approached me, when conveying the- 
invitation in person, in your most pleasant, attractive, and 
winning manner, which I thus interpreted, and which I 
could not possibly resist. 
The opening of a new session in connection with an 
important educational institution such as this cannot fail to 
awaken feelings and sentiments of a more or less exciting 
and even emotional character, associated with the past,, 
the present, and the future, infloenced and modified by the 
individual relations, experience, and status of those whom 
I have the privilege of addressing. I take it for granted 
that, while some of my remarks may appeal to all who have 
honoured me with their presence, and who, I presume, are- 
interested in various ways in the proceedings, or may even 
have a wider scope, my more immediate purpose is to speak 
to the students whom I see before me, and who have come 
here for the avowed purpose of making themselves proficient 
in the science and art of pharmacy. For you, ladies and' 
gentlemen (for I understand that I number among ray 
audience some lady-students), the past history of the- 
Pharmaceutical Society and School of Pharmacy must be 
peculiarly attractive and interesting, as it certainly has been 
to me. indeed, before proceeding further, I cannot refrain- 
from expressing my intense admiration for, and offering my 
cordial congratulations to, those who have been instrumental 
in bringing this institution to its present state of activity 
and efficiency, I gratefully acknowledge that my informa- 
tion on this subject has been obtained chiefly from the 
“Jubilee Address” of your President, delivered in 1892, 
which I found most instructive, interesting, and helpful, and 
I can only hope that this address cemes out in successive 
and inexhaustible editions, so that every pharmaceutical 
student to the end of time may be supplied with a copy. 
The Records of the Past. 
The history given in the address to which I have just 
alluded of tne establishment, aims, progress, and accom- 
plishments of the Pharmaceutical Society and School of 
Pharmacy, is most delightful and stimulating reading. Any- 
one who has the slightest knowledge or conception of the- 
state of things existing previous to, or indeed for some time 
after, their foundation, of which I have personally a very 
vivid recollection, must feel a thrill of gratitude to the 
founders, who, guided by broad and, at that time, advanced 
views, with remarkable sagacity and foresight devoted their 
time, energy, and means to a beneficent and noble purpose 
and having first obtained a charter to protect the interests* 
