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TESTIMONIAL TO OK. EDWARDS AT LIVERPOOL. 
exertions on behalf of pharmacy here, may be extended to him in any future field 
of operation. 
“(Signed) Geokge W. Sandeord, President. 
“ T. H. Hills, Vice-President. 
“Daniel Bell Han bury, Treasurer. 
“And by all the other Members of the Council. 
“ Elias Bremridge, Secretary and Registrar.” 
The next Address presented was that from the Council of the Liverpool Chemists’ 
Association, which had been very beautifully written on vellum, and tastefully illumi¬ 
nated ; the artistic execution being greatly admired. It was read by Mr. Bedford, the 
President of the Association. 
“ Royal Institution, Liverpool, August 9<A, 1866. 
“to JOHN BAKER EDWARDS, ESQ., PH.D., F.C.S. 
“ Dear Sir,—Your letter to the Council of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association, re¬ 
signing your seat at our Board, has caused us deep regret. When we look back upon 
the seventeen years of your connection with the Society, dating from its origin, when 
you were its first Secretary, subsequently for three years its President, and for many 
years teacher of practical pharmacy, now that the union by your removal to Canada is 
about to terminate, we experience a sense of loss difficult to express. 
“ The ability and zeal you have displayed, and your valuable aid both in the Council 
and in the Lecture-room, can hardly be over-stated. We feel that much of the success 
of our Association is due to you, and on those occasions especially, wffien the public have 
met us, you, more than any other individual, by the variety and advanced character of 
your illustrations, contributed to make such occasions distinguished. 
“ Your love of science, and ardent efforts to promote its advance, have given an im¬ 
petus to our body which we fear may suffer by your absence, though we hope that, as 
an Honorary Member, we may sometimes hear from you and see you. We cannot 
allow this opportunity to pass without expressing our admiration of those talents which 
have raised you as a toxicologist, a chemist, and a pharmaceutist, to honourable dis¬ 
tinction. 
“Your scientific and practical knowledge of pharmacy has enhanced the value of your 
exertions to raise that art to its proper position; and we testify with great pleasure to 
your valuable services in the cause of pharmaceutical education, and also to the watch¬ 
fulness you have manifested of events affecting the interests of the general body of 
chemists in this country. 
“ Your intimate relation with the Board of the Pharmaceutical Society has supplied a 
link which has been the chief medium of the friendly intercourse between that Society 
and our Association. On important occasions, when the interests of the body generally 
have been involved in legislative measures, you have done essential service as our repre¬ 
sentative. You have made a name of which we are proud; and you have also, in 
numerous ways, endeared yourself to the Members of the Chemists’ Association; and 
none among your large circle of friends will hold you in more cherished remembrance. 
“We bid you farewell, with united and cordial good wishes for your happiness and 
prosperity. 
“We hope that your influence may be widely felt in Canada, and that through the 
press we may frequently witness your labours on behalf of science, and especially for the 
promotion of pharmaceutical science. 
“ We are, dear Sir, very truly yours, 
“ (Signed) Alfred Bedford, President. 
“ Bobert Sumner, Treasurer, 
“ Martin Murphy, Secretary. 
“ And by all the Members of the Council.” 
Mr. Bedford said he fully indorsed the complimentary remarks in reference to Dr. 
Edwards, which had fallen from the preceding speakers. 
Dr. Edwards, after expressing his obligations for the Address which had just been 
read, said; In the period alluded to—twenty-five years ago—it was a very difficult thing 
to get half-a-dozen chemists to speak to each other, and it was unquestionably a very 
happy thing that the result of the labours of the last twenty' years had been to bring 
