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from  this  desk  a  memoir  of  our  late  associate,  Elias  Durand ;  a  year 
has  passed  !  and  upon  the  remaining  members  of  that  committee 
devolves  the  duty  of  presenting  a  memoir  of  his  life. 
We  need  only  to  sketch  the  outlines,  and  the  recollections  of  each 
one  can  complete  the  picture.  His  name  is  yet  fresh  upon  the  min- 
utes of  our  meetings,  and  as  it  is  read  our  eyes  turn  to  his  accus- 
tomed place ;  but  while 
His  "  written  words  we  linger  o'er, 
Yet  in  the  sun  he  casts  no  shade ; 
No  voice  is  heard,  no  sound  is  made, 
No  step  is  on  the  conscious  floor." 
As  the  deepening  shades  of  night  invited  to  repose  after  the  labors 
of  the  day  he  lay  down  to  rest,  and  the  last  page  of  his  life's  history 
was  closed ! 
To  us  is  left  the  remembrance  of  his  earnest,  active  life,  ambitious, 
not  for  place  or  preferment,  but  for  the  advancement  of  the  purposes 
for  which  this  College  was  founded — that  knowledge  which  elevates 
the  profession  and  the  individual,  and  confers  a  lasting  benefit  upon 
society. 
arfcttts. 
The  Franklin  Institute  Exhibition,* — The  venerable  Franklin  Institute  of 
this  city  bears  a  relation  towards  technology,  which  is  in  many  respects  anal- 
ogous to  that  of  our  own  College  toward  pharmacy.  Both  institutions  have 
been  in  existence  more  than  half  a  century,  each  laboring  zealously  within  its 
respective  field.  The  chief  mission  of  the  Franklin  Institute  has  been  the  in- 
struction of  those  who  labor  with  head  or  hand  in  industrial  pursuits  ;  that  of 
our  own  College  is  too  well  known  to  need  comment.  Both,  again,  occupy 
parallel  positions  in  bringing  together  those  who  pursue  similar  avocations,  and 
in  promoting  friendly  intercourse  among  them,  so  that  they  can  freely  inter- 
change their  ideas  for  mutual  profit.  The  distinctly  avowed  purpose  of  each 
institution  is  the  higher  education  of  earnest  workers,  so  that  the  knowledge  of 
each  may  become  the  common  property  of  all.  United  thus  by  a  bond  of 
goodwill  with  all  who  labor  faithfully  for  the  diffusion  and  advancement  of 
modern  enlightened  ideas,  it  eminently  behooves  us  to  take  cognizance  of  the 
magnificent  exhibition,  which  has  for  several  weeks  past  been  visited  and  ad- 
mired by  so  many  thousands  of  our  best  citizens. 
*  Read  at  the  Pharmaceutical  Meeting,  October  20th. 
