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he ever found time for something beyond mere business ; and whilst his name 
is most familiar to us as leader in our own profession, he is, out of our Society, 
regarded rather as the man of science, whose memoirs on Carbon, on Carbo¬ 
nic Acid, and on Respiration, were amongst the finest researches of their day 
—as the friend and associate of Davy, Wollaston, Berzelius, De Luc, and 
others of that noble fraternity of chemists and physicists—as the brilliant and 
fascinating lecturer on chemistry at Guy’s Hospital and the Royal Institu¬ 
tion ;—or, on the other hand, as the philanthropist, labouring hand-in-hand 
with Clarkson, Brougham, Wilberforce, and the rest of that devoted band to 
whom civilization owes the suppression of the slave-trade, the amelioration 
of a barbarous penal code, and the initiatory steps in the spread of edu¬ 
cation. If success in its best sense be what you look for, surely such a 
career is worth emulation, and there is but one means through which it may 
be attained,—a means that will certainly bring its reward, whether it be pre¬ 
cisely in the way we look for it or not ; call it diligence, devotion, earnest¬ 
ness, or that combination of all comprised in the word thorough , or, if you 
will, take home to yourselves that older injunction of Ring Solomon, “ What¬ 
soever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.” 
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 
A Special General Meeting of Members was held at 17, Bloomsbury Square, 
on Wednesday, October 14th, for the purpose of considering and approving 
certain alterations in the Bye-laws rendered necessary by the provisions of the 
new Pharmacy Act. Mr. Sandford, President of the Society, occupied the 
chair. 
The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, 
The Chairman said the alterations made in the bye-laws were simply those 
necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of 1868 ; but if any gentleman 
present desired special information on any point, Mr. Flux, who had superin¬ 
tended the reconstruction of the bye-laws, would be happy to afford it. 
Mr. Flux said he was quite ready to go into details if any one desired it, but 
he did not apprehend it was necessary, the alterations being simply those re¬ 
quisite to constitute the machinery for working out the new Act. The bye¬ 
laws could not alter the law, but were simply intended to give effect to it; and 
as a copy had been handed to each member present, he apprehended they might 
be taken as read and confirmed. (They will be found at the end of this 
report.) 
Mr. Deane said he believed there were no alterations made in the bye-laws 
except what were necessary, but there was one rather important addition, which 
he thought would be considered a very acceptable one ; he referred to clause 2 
of section xxi., which provided that persons registered as Pharmaceutical Chemists 
under section x. of the Act of 1852, should be entitled to possess and use a 
diploma stamped with the seal of the Society. This gave what had not been 
given before, and he believed would be hailed as a very desirable addition to 
the bye-laws. 
Mr. Flux, noticing Mr. Dickinson present, drew that gentleman’s attention 
to clause 6 in section i., as making a provision which he had on a former occasion 
wished to introduce, as it excluded from the register of Pharmaceutical Chemists 
henceforth all who did not pass the Major examination. 
Mr. Dickinson said he really had no particular interest in the matter, and 
indeed did not know that the meeting was to be held, and was present quite 
accidentally. That, however, might be his own fault, as, if he had read the 
