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BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
After some discussion, it was resolved that the question should be resumed 
on the following day. 
The President stated that he had the pleasure to lay before the Conference 
two communications containing invitations for the meeting of 1868. The first 
was from Norwich, and was as follows :— 
11 To the President, Vice-Presidents , and Committee of the Pharmaceutical Conference, 
assembled at Dundee , September, 1867. 
“ Gentlemen, —We, the undersigned Pharmaceutical Chemists, and Chemists and 
Druggists, residing in the city of Norwich, desire most cordially to solicit that the 
annual Conference be held in our city in the year 1868, if it should be decided that 
the British Association shall meet here in that year. We on our part shall be glad 
to do the utmost in our power to render such a meeting both pleasant and successful 
in every respect. 
“ Robert Fitch. 
Edward Arnold. 
A. J. Coley. 
Wright Searby. 
Joseph English. 
W. J. Gardner. 
Smith and Sons. 
R. C. Pitts, R.P.P. 
William Cooke. 
Cubitt and Son. 
James Robinson. 
George Row. 
Alfred Stockings. 
Henry Thompson. 
Andrews, Brothers. 
W. M. Rackham. 
John Cossey. 
J. H. Hulme. 
James E. H. Watson. 
Gilbert P. Watson. 
James Orissa Peggs. 
Arthur Everitt. 
Francis Sutton, Loc. Sec. P. ST 
The second communication was from Mr. Davies, Hon. Sec. of the Liverpool 
Chemists’Association, enclosing the following resolution of that Society, viz., 
“ That the Council of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association will welcome the 
British Pharmaceutical Conference, if it should accompany the British Associa¬ 
tion in its anticipated visit to Liverpool, and will use every effort to render its 
visit successful.’ 
The President stated that, in accordance with the usual custom, the Con¬ 
ference would await the decision of the British Association as to its place of 
meeting next year, and that, consequently, the question would stand over for an 
adjourned meeting to be held next week. 
The President then proceeded to deliver the following Address :— 
t 
ON THE STUDY OP BOTANY IN CONNECTION WITH 
PHARMACY. 
Gentlemen,—The honour which you have been pleased to confer upon me by 
electing me for the second time as your President, is another proof of the kind¬ 
ness and consideration I have invariably received from the members of your 
profession, and an additional link in the chain which, for the last twenty years, 
has bound us so intimately together. Posts of honour are not commonly, however, 
posts of ease, for each ordinarily brings with it increased responsibilities and in¬ 
creased cares. I find myself, therefore, in my present position as your President, 
called upon, in accordance with annual custom, to open the proceedings of the 
British Pharmaceutical Conference with an introductory address. In the address 
which I delivered last year at Nottingham, on a similar occasion to the present, 
I pointed out, as fully as time would allow me, the intimate relations which 
existed between botauy and pharmacy, and the consequent advantages to be 
derived by the pharmaceutist from a knowledge of botanical science. I then 
stated that the subject was of too extensive a nature to be exhausted in the 
