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enabled him but too often to detect most culpable adulte- 
rations of drugs and chemicals. Many are the instances in 
which sophisticated articles have been returned to the 
owners with such remarks from our late worthy President 
as would teach them he was too competent and vigilant 
a sentinel ever to allow their nefarious speculations to suc- 
ceed in this great drug mart. 
His zeal and industry in the advancement of all that 
could possibly benefit the science of Pharmacy, would have 
done credit to one much younger, but above all his 
example in the prosecution of his professional duties should 
be held up as worthy of imitation: ever conscious of the 
importance of personal attendance to the faithful discharge 
of the tedious and but ill-requited and little-honoured 
duties of a practical Pharmaceutist, he allowed himself no 
respite. 
In the long course of my life I have no where known an 
individual who united in a more eminent degree all the 
qualifications requisite to form an apothecary; he was ho- 
nest, virtuous, intelligent and indefatigably industrious; he 
inspired confidence in all who approached him. The poor as 
well as the rich were equally grateful to him; the first, be- 
cause they were the objects of the kindest benevolence; and 
the latter, that the gentleman, the scholar, and the skilful 
manipulator should condescend to attend to the minutiae of 
so delicate, and at the same time so tedious a calling. 
He has left a numerous and interesting family to mourn 
his loss. One of his sons has already done himself credit as 
a distinguished graduate of this institution, and promises to 
sustain the fair name he has inherited. 
It will now be requisite, gentlemen, that we should all 
unite in our endeavours to diminish, as much as possible 
the immense loss we have sustained in the demise of so 
good, so virtuous, and so useful a man as the late Constan- 
tine Adamson. 
Mr. George D. Coggeshall then made some appropriate 
