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committed to their care, should, from the beginning, endeavour to inculcate 
upon them the principle, that if they would be successful they must find 
their pleasures and concentrate their interests in the various articles to be 
found in a druggist’s shop. He knew of no business so full of interest; even 
in the smallest village shop there would be perhaps five hundred articles, the 
nature, properties, and history of which would afford ample scope for the 
most inquiring mind. It had often been to him a matter of surprise that so 
few druggists, comparatively speaking, seemed to have any idea of the beau¬ 
tiful objects of contemplative study which were to be found upon their own 
shelves. Since, however, he had commenced his career, there had been a 
great change in the facilities for study. At that time there was no means of 
acquiring knowledge except by books, and even these were scarce, and could 
not be obtained except at immense cost. Since then, however, the movement 
had taken place, commenced by Jacob Bell, and followed up by Dr. Pereira, 
Professor Redwood, Professor Bentley, and others, up to the time when their 
esteemed President had succeeded in passing the Pharmacy Bill. Neverthe¬ 
less, with all the exertions of these talented men, who had shown so strong a 
desire to promote the interests of pharmacy, their success would have been 
very limited but for the individual exertions of many men engaged in the 
business. Their co-operation was still necessary, and he would remark that 
the same interest still attached to the business of a chemist as did when he 
was a boy; the druggist still had the same things around him in which, from 
the knowledge of them which he was now required to possess, he might be 
expected to take a pleasurable interest. He hoped, therefore, that every one 
would, as far as possible, endeavour to take advantage of the field of study 
that lay before him, and take especial care to avoid adulterations (which 
were now, he believed, very scarce) and inferior qualities, the use of which 
would never, in the result, produce advantage of any kind. 
Mr. Joseph Ince proposed “ Success to Pharmaceutical Education.” He 
said that if he were unable to do justice to the toast it was not from any lack 
of interest in it. In connection with the Society was a Benevolent Fund,—a 
splendid charity,—but he could not help feeling that they had two benevolent 
funds, for what could be more truly benevolent, or an act of grander charity, 
than to give a man a dowry of sound knowledge ? In former days there had 
been a great deal said about the status of the chemist, and writers and 
speakers made many and various suggestions for giving the profession a 
status worthy of it, but if they had gone on in the old-fashioned, ignorant 
manner in which, he was sorry to say, they did for many years, they never 
would have had any position at all. But this was what education had done 
for them, for the only way ever to obtain a status was to make it for your¬ 
selves. Those who, above all others, were entitled to the credit of having 
brought about the present state of pharmaceutical education were the founders 
of the Society ; they sowed the field which was now being reaped by their 
successors. They were not likely to forget the cause of pharmaceutical edu¬ 
cation, when they saw amongst them one who had done as much if not more 
than any other to promote it, Professor Redwood. He could never forget 
the pleasant year he spent when studying under that gentleman, and working 
side by side with one who was now at a distance, but was then his associate. 
He wished to avoid everything fulsome, but he must say that had it not been 
for Professor Kedwood the present system of education would have been kept 
back immensely. 
Dr. Redwood said it could not but be gratifying to any one to be associ¬ 
ated with such a toast as that just proposed, but more especially when pro¬ 
posed to such an assembly and on such an occasion. They were met to 
commemorate the practical result of the application of pharmaceutical educa- 
