530  Needs  of  the  Business  Pharmacist.  {^vSe^wos?' 
to  the  Society,  and  four  years  later  he  became  its  sole  assistant 
secretary.  George  Bentham  was  honorary  secretary  from  1829  to 
1840,  and  it  was  to  the  labors  of  these  two  distinguished  men  that 
the  fame  of  the  gardens  in  their  early  days  was  chiefly  due.  In 
1826  a  course  of  training  was  inaugurated  in  the  gardens,  and  this 
is  of  interest,  inasmuch  as  the  Society  was  the  first  in  this  country 
to  train  gardening  students.  Among  the  Society's  pupils  who  sub- 
sequently achieved  distinction  we  may  note  Archibald  Barron,  Sir 
Joseph  Paxton,  who  designed  the  Crystal  Palace  ;  Robert  Thompson, 
and  many  others.  Bentham  and  Lindley  organized  the  first  flower 
show  at  Chiswick  in  1833,  and  it  was  also  during  their  period  of 
office  that  the  system  of  heating  plant  houses  by  means  of  hot-water 
pipes  was  first  resorted  to.  The  naming  of  the  large  number  of 
new  plants  introduced  by  the  Society  was  carried  out  principally  by 
Bentham,  with  the  assistance  of  Lindley,  until  the  resignation  of 
the  former  from  the  secretaryship  in  1841;  the  major  part  of  the 
Society's  work  then  devolved  upon  Lindley,  and,  until  illness  com- 
pelled him  to  relinquish  his  duties,  he  was  the  moving  spirit  in  all 
the  Society's  activities.  It  is  in  connection  with  this  matter  of 
nomenclature  that  the  Society  has  rendered  one  of  the  greatest  ser- 
vices to  horticulture,  as  it  is  the  home  of  the  nomenclature  of  fruit 
as  well  as  the  parent  of  the  Colonial  fruit  industry  which  has  now 
assumed  extensive  proportions.  The  first  publication  issued  by  the 
Society  was  the  Transactions.  This  was  published  from  1805  to 
1848,  and  was  followed  in  1 845  by  the  Journal,  which  has  been 
issued  periodically  ever  since  and  constitutes  the  most  important 
publication  of  the  Society. 
A  PLEA  FOR  GREATER  ATTENTION  TO  THE  SCIENTIFIC 
NEEDS  OF  THE  BUSINESS  PHARMACIST.1 
By  B.  H.  Gane,  Ph.C,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
In  selecting  the  subject  matter  for  the  annual  address  to  this  sec- 
tion I  have  been  influenced  mainly  by  the  steadily  decreasing  interest 
taken  by  the  great  body  of  pharmacists  in  the  work  of  our  associa- 
tion.   While  I  do  not  agree  with  the  gentleman  who  stated  at  one 
1  Address  of  the  chairman  of  the  Scientific  Section  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  at 
Atlantic  City,  September  6,  1905. 
