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ficklenesses where fashion rules, I hope this will soon have seen its day. I can carry in 
my memory establishments of long standing which have constantly kept up a succession 
of youths; and there are others of more recent date, who have also turned out apprentices 
the stamp and character of whom have been creditable alike to school and scholar. We 
all know, and the public also knows, that a lad raw from school is at first only put to 
the merest alphabet of his business, yet, if educated up to the standard of our time, 
there will be found ample materials for every need. Nor is the advantage confined to 
large establishments, for where few are kept the two extremes come into closer prox¬ 
imity, and an early copy of the master grows into a strong habit. I can only hint at 
these things ; but if it should provoke a further discussion of the subject, my present pur¬ 
pose will have been accomplished. 
Mr. Shaw proposed a vote of thanks to the President for his address, characterizing 
as especially valuable his advice to unite science and business, alluding to Dr. Edwards 
and Mr. Mercer as examples of this union. 
Mr. Eedfoed seconded the motion, and informed the meeting that Mr. Brown, late 
member of the Association and assistant at his shop, had passed the Minor Examination 
of the Pharmaceutical Society, and the Matriculation Examination of London Univer¬ 
sity, and offered him as an example to young members. 
The motion was carried by acclamation, and the meeting closed. 
LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The second meeting of the Association for the present session was held in the Library 
of the Philosophical Society, on the evening of November 14, 1866; Mr. Edward 
Thompson, the President elect, in the chair. 
The President proceeded to deliver the following inaugural address:— 
To review the progress of pharmacy during the past year would have been my task 
to-night, but for two simple reasons,—because to do so would have required more 
knowledge than I possessed, and more research than I had time for. 
A very superficial observer may notice, however, that pharmacy is now making con¬ 
siderable progress in this country. Several influences have been at work in producing 
this result. It was well known that in England our art was in a backward state, and 
that other countries were cultivating it far more successfully than we were, when the- 
late Jacob Bell and others instituted the Pharmaceutical Society, and brought out the 
Pharmaceutical Journal. They appointed men of acknowledged ability, such as Dr. 
Pereira, Dr. Anthony Todd Thomson, and Mr. Eedwood, to give instruction in the 
various branches of science required by the pharmaceutist; and they set up a well-fur¬ 
nished laboratory for the practical study of chemistry and pharmacy. Thus they pro¬ 
vided, with wise foresight, and in the most effectual manner, that a future generation of 
pharmaceutists should arise w'ell grounded in the various studies necessary to be culti¬ 
vated for successful competition with foreign chemists. The establishment of the jour¬ 
nal, too, ably conducted as it was by Mr. Bell till his lamented death, was the means of 
spreading among those of us who had not the advantage of personal intercourse with 
original investigators, some knowledge of what they were doing. Even the United 
Society, though not assuming any high scientific position, may have done good in 
watching over and stimulating the Pharmaceutical Society in its work, ever sounding in 
the ears of the paid officials the sentiment, if not the words of Burns :— 
“ A cliiel’s auiang you, takin’ notes. 
An’ faith, he’ll jwent it.” 
In more recent times, we cannot doubt that the Pharmaceutical Conference, by sug¬ 
gesting and directing researches, and by providing for the social intercourse of its mem¬ 
bers, has done good service in advancing the cause of pharmacy. And we may con¬ 
gratulate ourselves that one of our own members had no small share in originating the 
Conference, and now labours diligently and honourably, as one of its secretaries, in 
carrying it on. 
Such associations as our own, too, have had some humble part to play in promoting 
the progress of pharmacy ; and we hope that much more will still be done by societies 
