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not, the equivalents for the metrical system were given side by side in some of the 
early proof-sheets, but this was afterwards omitted. Dr. Redwood had spoken of 
differences of opinion in regard to this question. He (the President) remem¬ 
bered very well their meeting upstairs in that house when it was first proposed 
to change the weights of the Pharmacopoeia, and there was a proposition to in¬ 
troduce those of the metric system. Instead of the proposed change meeting 
with applause, as it now did, there was strong opposition to it. They could 
not now, however, shut their eyes to the inevitable advantages which would 
result from the introduction of the system ; and he thought this Society had a 
better opportunity than ever it had of introducing it. It was gratifying to 
find that they were spoken of in the way Dr. Graham had spoken of them. 
They did not want to introduce the metrical system arbitrarily. This was a 
most important discussion, and he hoped they would hear more upon it from 
some of their friends, and if they could not do so then, which was properly the 
last evening meeting of the session, they might have another meeting. He did 
not know whether he was taking too great a liberty,—he had not consulted his 
colleagues,—in proposing that they should have another meeting on the first 
Wednesday in May, to consider this question further. 
Mr. Carteighe thought that Prof. Redwood’s object had not been attained 
by the discussion of that evening. They had only approved the general prin¬ 
ciples of the metrical system, but what Prof. Redwood wanted them to do was 
to point out some ready mode of familiarizing themselves with the different 
weights and measures of the metrical system. They had not heard one gentle¬ 
man allude to that part of the subject, and therefore he thought it would be as 
well to adjourn the meeting and have a separate evening for the discussion of 
the subject. Prof. Redwood had also suggested some modification of the deci¬ 
mal system for the purpose of assimilating existing weights to it, and he (the 
speaker) should not like that to go out with the weight of his authority without 
his being able to give them some more cogent reasons for it than he had done 
in his paper. He understood the object to be to bend the old system to the 
new, but if they did it in the way proposed, they would lose the beauty of the 
decimal system. He would, therefore, move that the meeting be adjourned, 
and that no other subject be taken up before this on the same evening. 
The discussion was then adjourned to the 5th of May. 
Mr. Evans, Vice-President, brought before the Society a pipe for the inha¬ 
lation of vapours, by Mr. James Bird, of Seymour Street. It was like an 
ordinary pipe, with an aperture in the centre, and a little stopper, which was 
saturated with the substance to be inhaled, and by applying it in the ordinary 
way they got an admixture of atmospheric air. He then read a letter which 
he had received from Mr. Bird. 
The President having announced that the conversazione would be held on 
Tuesday, the 18th May, and intimated that objects of art and curiosity would 
be gladly received as loans, the meeting adjourned. 
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