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have been the efficient agents in this good work, this, to 
them, labour of devotion and of love? Enlightened, pub- 
lic spirited men, who were not willing to be behind the 
age, in what might profit their generation and those to fol- 
low them. I cannot praise the living, but it may be per- 
mitted me to give a passing tribute of acknowledgment to 
the departed. Our Association, this College, whom, within 
our own recollections, has it lost worthy of being held up 
for imitation ? one, young in years, but old in services; for 
us too early called away, and yet not leaving us without 
the deeply fixed impression on our minds, that he was our 
benefactor. In alluding to the late Professor Fisher, I am 
aware a train of melancholy reminiscences is awakened,«a 
chord of feelingis touched which vibrates sympathetically in 
the bosom of ail who knew him. Around me are his friends 
and his associates, and they have deeply felt and well ap- 
preciate his worth ; for to the heart of every one with 
whom he came in contact, his quiet, gentle and conciliating 
deportment found its way, and lasting attachment was the 
consequence. For evidences of his zeal, his energy, his 
untiring interest in the cause of his profession, I refer you 
to the pages of our own and other journals, where his con- 
tributions may be found, the monuments of his labours. He 
was taken from his place among us, and left a void in our 
affections, but his name will still be cherished, and may its 
hallowing influence hover round us, and prompt to deeds of 
emulation. Like the green blades and flowers which each 
spring arise from his premature grave, to show that all is 
not cold and lifeless where he lies, may our annual efforts 
for the promotion of our science testify conclusively that his 
precepts and his example have not been lost upon us. 
But I am again impelled to call up commingled recollec- 
tions of pain and pleasure, inseparably connected with this 
School of Pharmacy. An individual, once a member 
of our body, prominent with others, was among the first in 
his endeavours to promote its successful establishment. In 
