ADDRESS. 
91 
For a long time, organic Chemistry presented the appear- 
ance of a mighty maze, to thread the intricacies of which, no 
clue was to be found. The grandeur and simplicity which 
characterized the inorganic department of the science, were 
no longer to be traced when the students entered upon the 
confines of the living world, and chemists abandoned to a 
mere empirical language and arrangement the whole of this 
department of their science. 
This apparent confusion is now, however, rapidly giving 
way to an order, as remarkable for beautiful simplicity in the 
midst of complication, as general Chemistry has long been 
for its severe and chaste proportions. 
In this stage of improvement in the science of organic 
Chemistry, it is, as I conceive, of the utmost importance for 
the members of our profession, to devote their labours to its 
further advancement, and to appropriate to our peculiar de- 
partment, the rich fruits of the labours of the continental 
Chemists. 
I know not, young men, that I can present before you, a 
better guide in the pursuit and improvement of your profes- 
sion than the example of these celebrated men, your fellow 
apothecaries in France and Germany. 
Allow me to repeat to you the language of a veteran Phar- 
macien, the celebrated Bouillon la Grange, delivered on a 
recent occasion before the Society of Pharmacy in Paris: — 
" It is then in the laboratories, in those depots where the 
three kingdoms heap up and confound all that they can offer 
to suffering humanity, where life and death so nearl}^ touch 
each other, that Chemistry had her birth. 
The Glaubers, the Kunkels, the CHARAs,theLEMERiEs, 
the RouELLEs, the Macquers, the Cadets, the Baumes, 
the Demachys, prepared the materials of the edifice that was 
erected for it, and which Lavoisier,Priestley,Berthollet, 
GuYTON, FouRCROY, and Chaptal, overturned to elevate 
another, which was often decorated with the works of Bayen, 
