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ANNUAL MEETING. 
that the impression will not be left, that I am in any way the nominee, as I heard 
mentioned this morning, of Mr. Dickinson. I can assure you such is not the case. 
I had no communication or connection in any way with that gentleman, and I feel the 
greatest disgust and the greatest amount of indignation at the fraud which has been 
practised upon the Society. 
Mr. Sanger : I regret very much that I am a nominee of this gentleman; and, 
therefore, I am afraid the meeting, or rather not the meeting, but the chemists at 
large, may think that I hare had some hand in this. I am not speaking of those 
gentlemen who know me, and who are kind enough to show they know that I should 
not do such a thing ; but the chemists at large might think, as he has nominated me, 
that I might have had something to do with it. I can assure you most strongl}', and 
I hope it will appear publicly, that I had no hand whatever in it; and if any one had 
asked me how Mr. Dickinson would have acted, I should have said thoroughly as a 
gentleman. I never knew anything against him, or I should not have asked him to 
nominate me. I asked him because I thought his position in the business was such 
that it would assist me if he nominated me. Of course I very much regret not being 
elected, but that is one of the chances of war. I trust that whatever you let go forth 
to the public, it will bear Mr. Williams’s and my emphatic denial of any knowledge 
whatever of this unfortunate affair ; and as far as any advantage accruing to us by it, 
it was really nothing. We -were refused by the country beforehand, there is no doubt. 
Mr. Flex : May I be permitted to add a statement to those which have been made, 
in exoneration of all the gentlemen, other than Mr. Dickinson ? and it is to this effect, 
that he personally attended the meeting of the Scrutineers yesterday morning, and, I 
think, that when they were assembled, and when the machinery was complete which 
would have led to that result which has now been before you, Mr. Dickinson in the 
room made a statement to the purport that he, and he alone, had falsified the returns, 
that he did it knowingly and purposely, and the only excuse which he made for him¬ 
self v r as, that he saw that the system pursued was a very rotten one, and he did it to 
show how rotten the system was. How far that excuse will hold him good in the 
minds of gentlemen capable of judging, I say nothing about; but I thought it right 
to state the fact of that admission on the part of Mr. Dickinson. He went further, 
and turning to the gentlemen who were at his table, of section No. 2, said to one or 
two of them, “ I completely exonerate you,” and was replied to, to the purport, that 
they needed none of his exoneration, and I really concurred in that observation. 
Mr. Young : May I be allowed to say that that statement was made in my pre¬ 
sence as well as in that of Mr. Flux. 
The Chairman : It becomes my duty to declare the following gentlemen elected to 
the new Council:— 
Council , 1870-71. 
Abraham, John, 87, Bold Street, Liverpool. 
Atherton, John Henrt, Long Row, Nottingham. 
Bottle, Alexander 37, Town wall Street, Dover. 
Bourdas, Isaiah, 7, Pont Street, Belgrave Square. 
Brady, Henry Bowman, 29, Mosley Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Brown, William Scott, 113, Market Street, Manchester. 
Deane, Henry, Clapham, S.W. 
Dymond, George, 17, Bull Street, Birmingham. 
Edwards, George, Hartford, Kent. 
Evans, Henry Sugden, 60, Bartholomew Close, E.C. 
Groves, Thomas B., 80, St. Mary Street, Weymouth. 
IIanbury, Cornelius, Plough Court, Lombard Street, E.C. 
Haselden, Adolphus Frederick, 18, Conduit Street, W. 
Hills, Thomas Hyde, 338, Oxford Street, W. 
Mackay, John, 119, George Street, Edinburgh. 
Reynolds, Richard, 13, Briggate, Leeds. 
Sandeord, George Webb, 47, Piccadilly, W. 
Savage, William Dawson, 30, Upper Bedford Street, Brighton. 
Stoddart, William Walter, 9, North Street, Bristol. 
Sutton, Francis, Bank Plain, Norwich. 
Woolley, George Stephen, 69, Market Street, Manchester. 
