The Presidential Address. 
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of nomenclature and classification of clouds proposed in 1802 
and still in general use. He was a Fellow of the Eoyal 
Society, and a correspondent of the poet Goethe, who wrote 
a poem upon him. His wife was descended from the Westons, 
Earls of Portland. 
JOHN ELIOT HOWAED, F.R.S . 4 
After leaving school, Mr. J. E. Howard joined his father in 
the business at Stratford, with which he remained in con¬ 
nection until his death. 6 He joined the Pharmaceutical 
Society in 1858, not being, as has been stated, one of the 
4 [For this portrait we are indebted to the kindness of the Editor of 
the ‘ Graphic.’ It is engraved from a photograph by Messrs. Maull & Co. 
—Ed.] 
5 His first paper was published in 1852, and was very characteristic of 
much of his work, being a lengthy and exhaustive report on the 
Collection of Cinchona in the British Museum made by the Spanish 
botanist, Pavon. 
