October 5, 1872.] 
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all tlie knowledge required to pass tlie Minor may 
he acquired by yourselves alone. Lectures and 
•classes are, of course, great helps, and I would he 
the last to say anything that would tend to lessen 
the idea of their value. But do not think that genius 
-or more than ordinary ability is required. It is the 
persevering, resolute, hard-working student that 
gains the Pereira medal. One who is really deter¬ 
mined to reach the goal, and who, by accustoming 
himself to work, finds liis studies become propor¬ 
tionally easier. 
I hope all of you have embraced the study of 
pharmacy in its highest sense, and intend setting to 
work with brave, earnest and honest hearts. The 
knowledge you will thus have acquired will last 
you all your lives, and never evaporate like the 
temporary makeshift of the crammer. Our esteemed 
professors will welcome you, and take a delight and 
pride in guiding you forward with their lectures and 
their counsel; but I am sure they will tell you that 
tlieir efforts must be supported by your own indivi¬ 
dual exertions. Indeed, the whole value of their 
lectures depends on the use you make of them. Che¬ 
mistry must be learnt in the laboratory, botany in 
the field, and dispensing at the counter. A month 
of practice is worth a year of theory. 
Do not t hink that when you have passed your 
examination you must put aside all your books, and 
have nothing else to do but to get a business. It is 
to you that we older ones look for the future pro¬ 
sperity of the Pharmaceutical Society. You, and not 
we, will be the gainers by its rise in the social and 
scientific scale. You will, I trust, see the day that 
we desire to see, when the examination fees will be 
cheerfully and gladly paid without thinking them 
too high, and. will some day pass the bye-law enacting 
that the Major must be reached before being allowed 
to enter into what I hope will truly be entitled the 
profession. 
We are often met by the old-fashioned assertion, 
that such an amount of scientific education will 
unfit you for the proper attention to business, and 
that you will become too proud for the ordinary 
duties of the retail counter. It is a very absurd 
idea; quite as much so as for you to think of com¬ 
mencing business without the necessary experience. 
I would be the last man in this room to slight 
business habits. On the contrary, I set the highest 
value on the young man, who, by punctuality and 
discriminating care, can show that he has an eye 
for business, but, on the other hand, I should think 
very little of an assistant who, however regular in 
his habits and correct in his accounts, was not able 
to give a sensible answer to the many unexpected 
questions that are daily asked by our customers. 
Would your dispensing powers be lessened by a fore¬ 
knowledge of the results of a mixture, and therefore 
of incompatibilities? Would you make any of the 
preparations the worse, because you knew the che¬ 
mical laws that control the elements ? Or would 
you be a worse judge of drugs, because your botani¬ 
cal knowledge taught you the characteristics of the 
medicinal herbs ? It would be monstrously absuid 
to say so. An increase of knowledge will give you 
a most valuable pow r er, applicable to every ciicum- 
stance of civilized life. You will be a better tiades- 
man, a better fellow-citizen, and a better pharmacist. 
I cannot understand how any one having an 
acquaintance with the scientific explanation of what 
is going on around him at home, in the shop, oi 
in the garden, can be content to eke out his exist¬ 
ence with only studying the wholesale price list. 
I must think better tilings of you, for it would 
seem incredible that you could have proved the 
friendship of such men as Professors Redwood, 
Attfield, Bentley, or Tilden, and the gentlemen I 
see around me, in vain. It is not possible that you 
could enjoy their acquaintance without having a 
more elevated idea of tilings than you had before 
you knew them. 
In conclusion, I would again urge you to make 
full use of the coming session. You will find that 
when you leave Bloomsbury Square, it will have 
been no time or expense lost. Never condescend to 
lower your profession in the eyes of the. public, 
but let them find out, as they very soon will, that 
you may be depended on for truth, integrity and 
upright honesty; and, above all, a fixed determina¬ 
tion to walk strictly in the path of duty. 
The end will be that you will earn the greatest of 
all earthly rewards, a good name. 
“ A spotless name 
By virtuous deeds acquired, is sweeter far 
Than fragrant balsams, whose odours round diffused. 
Regale the guests. ~W ell may such men 
Rejoice at death’s approach, and bless the hours 
That end the toilsome pilgrimage ; assured 
That till the race of life is finished, none 
Can be completely blest.” 
May such a lot be yours. 
At the close of this address, the President pro¬ 
posed a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Stoddart, which 
was carried by acclamation. 
It was announced that the next evening meeting 
will be held on Wednesday, the Otli of November. 
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