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ENGLISH COMPOSITION. 
Write some remarks on the Influence of the Sciences upon the useful Arts. 
CHEMISTRY. 
1. How would you separate Baryta, Strontia, Lime, and Magnesia from each other? 
2. How is Carbolic Acid prepared ? 
3. What is the meaning of the term Halogen ? 
4. What is understood by Isomerism ? Name at least three several examples, giving 
with each the difference in the properties of the bodies. 
BOTANY. 
1. Describe the inflorescence of a plant of each of the Orders Composites, Labiates , and 
Papilionaceoe. 
2. What is meant by the terms Monoecious and Dioecious? 
3. What is the meaning of the terms Dehiscent and Indehiscent ? Name some plants 
to the fruits of which those terms are applicable. 
4. What is the meaning of the terms Genus, Species, and Variety ? 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
1. What Orders of plants furnish respectively the following drugs, viz. Rhubarb, 
Guaiacum, Cinnamon, Chamomile, Gamboge, Gum Arabic, and Scammony ? 
2. What is the nature of the substances to which the terms Gum, Gum-resin, Resin, and 
Oleo-resin are respectively applicable ? Give an example of each. 
3. What are Lycopodium, Lupuline, and Kamala ? 
4. How is Arrow-root manufactured ? 
The Vice-President addressed a few remarks to the assembled pupils, 
and gave a short sketch of his own career, which, he thought, might be sug¬ 
gestive, and perhaps instructive, to those present. Mr. Hills said that, after 
an apprenticeship of six years, he came to London ; and, after ten days’ search 
for a situation as an assistant, he was fortunate enough to obtain one in a 
house where the young men had formed themselves into a class for mutual 
instruction, and he was invited to join them. The class met in the evening 
three times a week, after shop hours, when one of the members, having read 
up a subject, would ask questions on Materia Meclica or chemistry, each 
taking his turn. He must tell them that works relating to their business at 
that time were very few, and comprised Hr. A. T. Thomson’s ‘ Dispensatory,’ 
Turner’s ‘Chemistry,’ Hooper’s ‘Dictionary,’ and Thomas’s ‘Practice of 
Physic.’ This was thirty years ago, when chemists did a little “ counter¬ 
practice but now that pharmacy had become a science, it required all their 
attention, and so the ‘ Practice of Physic ’ was given up. 
About three or four years afterwards, in consequence of an attack upon 
chemists and druggists by Mr. Hawes’s Bill,—which, if carried, would have 
deprived chemists of the power of dispensing prescriptions,—the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society was formed, and the noble pile in which they were met was 
the result; and, as they all knew, the lectures on chemistry, pharmacy. 
Materia Medica, and botany were established. He took advantage of all 
these lectures, putting off everything except shop duties, and attended three 
full courses of each, never missing a lecture unless compelled by business at 
home; and of all the evening meetings, since their establishment, he thought 
he had only missed two. He never came there without obtaining informa¬ 
tion, and often very valuable information. 
Mr. Hills said that he saw gentlemen in the room who attended these 
evening meetings, and, he believed, as often as himself. He had heard of 
these gentlemen long before he came to London,—their fame was known 
