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by  patients,  seemed  to  indicate  that  it  then  was  no  longer  in  an  active  or  uncom- 
bined  state.  Mr.  Siebold  sent  two  papers,  one  on  the  preparation  of  a  pure  sulphur 
prascipitatum  by  only  partial  precipitation  ;  the  other,  on  the  strength  of  tincture  of 
nux  vomica.  Mr.  Groves  exhibited  a  specimen  of  so-called  Pekoe  "  Flower,"  con- 
cerning the  origin  of  which  Mr.  Greenish  contributed  some  information.  This  was 
the  last  of  the  papers. 
The  Conference  then  proceeded  to  the  election  of  officers.  Prof.  Redwood  was 
re-elected  President,  and  it  was  decided  to  accept  an  invitation  to  meet  next  year  at 
Plymouth.  Enthusiastic  votes  of  thanks  to  the  Local  Committee  and  to  the  Presi- 
dent closed  the  proceedings. 
On  Tuesday  evening  an  interesting  gathering  took  place  at  the  Royal  Hotel, 
where  many  visitors  to  the  Conference  sat  down  to  supper  with  a  large  number  of 
the  junior  pharmacists  of  the  city.  The  Chairman,  in  a  few  well-chosen  words,  in- 
troduced successively  to  his  young  friends  the  representative  pharmacists  present, 
and  they  in  their  turn  addressed  the  company.  The  plain  speaking  of  Prof.  Red- 
wood will  no  doubt  be  relished  in  many  quarters,  and  equally  disliked  in  others. 
Soon  after  6  o'clock  on  Thursday  morning,  pharmacists  and  their  friends  began 
to  make  their  way  to  Glasgow  Bridge,  near  where  the  Eagle  lay  at  her  moorings.. 
By  7,  a  numerous  company  was  on  board,  and  to  the  music  of  the  band  and  the 
pipers  of  the  Cameronian  Regiment,  the  boat  made  her  way  down  the  Clyde  to  the 
western  coast,  visiting  successively  the  beautiful  lochs  that  lay  in  her  way.  If  any- 
thing could  have  repaid  the  Local  Committee  for  their  unbounded  kindness  during 
the  whole  meeting,  it  must  have  been  the  manifest  appreciation  on  the  part  of  their 
visitors  of  this  crowning  hospitality.  And  when  the  company  met  in  the  cabin 
after  dinner,  there  could  be  no  mistaking  the  enthusiasm  with  which  they  toasted 
the  health  of  their  hosts,  and  especially  of  those  upon  whom  the  work  had  princi- 
pally fallen — Messrs.  Davison,  Frazer,  Kinninmont,  Stanford  and  Fairlie. 
We  have  but  little  space  left  to  speak  of  the  other  meetings  of  the  week,  but  we 
must  not  omit  to  call  attention  to  the  admirable  address  with  which  on  Wednesday 
evening  Professor  Andrews  inaugurated  at  the  Glasgow  University  the  meeting  of 
the  British  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science.  It  is  true  that  one  of  the 
local  journals  ventured  to  stigmatize  it  as  "  bald  disjointed  chat  about  science,"  un- 
suited  for  a  Glasgow  audience;  but  we  venture  to  say  that  the  motive  for  such  an 
attack  must  be  sought  for  outside  the  address  itself.  At  any  rate,  the  passage  where 
Dr.  Andrews  speaks  of  the  clouds  of  smoke  which  darken  the  atmosphere  of  our 
manufacturing  towns,  and  even  of  whole  districts  of  country,  as  indications  of  waste 
arising  from  imperfect  combustion,  and  alludes  to  the  depressing  effect  of  this  atmos- 
phere upon  the  working  population,  is  a  passage  which  appears  to  us  to  be  worthy 
of  the  particular  attention  of  the  citizens  of  Glasgow.  The  remarks  of  Dr.  An- 
drews respecting  the  endowment  of  research  are  well  worth  pondering.  He  is  not 
so  enthusiastic  as  some  are  as  to  the  benefit  to  be  derived  from  endowing  a  body  of 
men  devoted  exclusively  to  scientific  research,  without  the  duty  of  teaching  or  other 
occupation,  and  he  confesses  that  after  careful  consideration  he  fails  to  discover  how 
such  a  plan  could  be  worked  so  as  to  secure  the  object  in  view.  Moreover,  he 
thinks  that  great  injury  would  be  done  by  thus  separating  the  influence  of  the  mas- 
ter intellects  of  the  country  as  teachers  from  the  flower  of  its  youth. 
