The Presidential Address. 
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children. His death followed a very short illness, occurring 
at his house, Lord’s Mead, Tottenham, on November 22nd, 
in his seventy-sixth year. He was buried on the 28th, in 
Tottenham Cemetery, in the presence of a large number of 
relatives, friends, and representatives of the scientific societies 
to which he belonged. 
Mr. Howard always evinced considerable interest in this 
Club, of which he was an original member, occasionally 
driving over to our Field Meetings from Tottenham. Though 
we may hope that the advance of synthetic chemistry may 
some day render us no longer dependent, for our supplies of that 
invaluable medicine Quinine, upon the precarious cultivation 
of a single genus, yet the life-work of John Eliot Howard in 
the service of pharmaceutical science, and thus in the cause 
of humanity, is likely to be long and gratefully remembered. 
When the year opened, the Forest in which our Club is 
so deeply interested was threatened with the encroachment 
of a railway; but this scheme, which was supported by the 
Corporation who should have been the protectors of the 
Forest, was, I need hardly remind you, happily defeated, in 
a great measure through the action of the Club. During 
the contest we were given to understand that, if successful, 
we should meet with abundant aid from the outside public 
in defraying the necessary expenses of printing and postage 
incurred; but I am sorry to say that this has not to any con¬ 
siderable extent been the case, so that nearly £30 from the 
funds of the Club has had to be devoted to this purpose. 
This has contributed to prevent the issue to members of 
more than one Part of our ‘Transactions’ during the year; 
but this is also largely due to the considerable number of 
subscriptions for 1883, and even for 1882, which have not yet 
been paid. 
I am sorry to feel obliged to speak as to the thought¬ 
lessness, not to say dishonourableness, of thus crippling the 
resources of the Club. Thanks, however, to the generosity 
of friends who have given us illustrations, I do not think we 
have any occasion to be ashamed of Part 7 of our ‘ Trans¬ 
actions,’ the editing of which, a laborious though unnoticed 
