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Shuttleworth. Its notation restricts its use to the pupils at the Royal College of Che¬ 
mistry ; to such students it will, as far as it goes, be found invaluable. 
According to the first sentence in the preface, this little book is written by a student. 
Now, the student’s stand-point is the one from which all educational works should be 
written. Authors of such books have often longed for the memory of their early im¬ 
pressions and difficulties, or for the power, possessed by so few, of completely merging 
their individuality in that of the character they are assuming or portraying,—a power 
illustrated in some of Dickens’s short tales in recent numbers of a popular periodical. In 
a work by a student, therefore, we expected to find a certain natural freshness and clear¬ 
ness, seldom successfully imitated by a professor; such a mode of treatment is not ob¬ 
servable, however, in Mr. Kay-Shuttleworth’s book. The reason for this is, we think, 
that he has relied too much on his teachers and too little on himself and his subject. 
©tutuarg* 
THOMAS POLLOCK. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Sir,—Many of your London members may have noticed an old-fashioned 
chemist’s shop in Fenchurch Street, opposite Mincing Lane; there dwelt forty- 
six years Thomas Pollock,—a simple-minded, ardent searcher after Nature’s 
secrets. Indifferent to self, yet ever caring for others ; liberal in the extreme, 
to which many of our charitable institutions can bear ample testimony, and will 
much miss his ungrudging bounty. He was, as you are doubtless aware, one 
of the earliest founders of the Pharmaceutical Society. One of his works I 
have now before me, entitled, 1 An Attempt to Explain the Phenomena of Heat, 
Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, Gravitation, and Light, on the assumption 
of one Cause or Universal Principle,’ * which betrays strong evidence of his 
high scientific abilities, to which there could not be a better tribute than his 
correcting the proof-sheets of the whole of Dr. Pereira’s first edition of his 
Materia Medina, and who was his intimate friend. He died February 1st, aged 
74. 
I resided with him as apprentice and assistant twenty-three years, viz. from 
1828 to 1851, therefore no one can bear better witness to his kindness of heart 
and sterling integrity than, 
Your obedient servant, 
John P. Neyill. 
Southampton , March 5 th, 1868. 
ROBERT WARINGTON, ESQ. 
Robert Warington was born on the 7th of September, 1807, at Sheerness, where his 
father, Thomas Warington, who was a victualler of ships, then resided. He was 
educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, and, being intended for a land-surveyor, he was, 
on leaving school, set to learn that business, but, after a few months, abandoned it in 
favour of chemistry, which he studied as the house pupil, and subsequently, in 1822, 
the articled apprentice of Mr. J. T. Cooper, then a well-known lecturer and manufac¬ 
turing chemist. 
On the opening of the London University (now University College) in 1828, Mr. 
Warington, having served his time with Mr. Cooper, w r as chosen by the Professor of 
Chemistry, Dr. Edward Turner, to he his assistant. In that capacity he continued at 
* Highley, 1832. 
