Inauguration of the Wellcome Club and Institute, Dartford, Kent, England, 1899.
- Date:
- [1899]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Inauguration of the Wellcome Club and Institute, Dartford, Kent, England, 1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![here I venture to speak, as Mr. Wellcome said, from the heart to the heart, because of my extreme interest in all that relates to research in pharmacy and the promotion of friendly intercourse amongst those who follow that calling. It isnow 36 years since a few of us assembled in a very small room at Newcastle, and ventured to start an association (The British Pharmaceutical Conference) having objects which I find here to-day reflected in one of the greatest firms of the world—that is, the promotion of research in connection with pharmacy, and the promotion of good fellowship amongst the followers of that calling. I allude to it as I want to remind you once more that the objects of that society, which we ventured to set forth as objects that could be followed by the principals and by the employees of every pharmacy in this country, are the principles which are so successfully ])rosecuted by the firm of Burroughs Wellcome and Co. “ I cannot but rejoice and congratulate Mr. Wellcome on the fact that, in addition to his organisa- tion of scientific and commercial research coupled with good fellowship, as indicated by this club, enormous financial success, which has been abundantly deserved, has been realised. “I must allude, before I sit down, to one other great pleasure that has forced itself upon me, though I must not say much about it because a compliment to myself is in it, and that is that in every department of this great firm I find myself here to-day welcomed by my old pupils. Their merits have been realised by this firm, and I can assure them, though I am perfectly certain they need no such assurance, that the men they have obtained from the Bloomsbury Square Laboratories and Lecture Rooms were some of our brightest ornaments during the whole time I was connected with that Institution, viz., from 1863 to 1896. I come here and I find Mr. Lloyd Williams, Dr. Jowett and Mr. Hill, Mr. Carr, and many others— but really they are too numerous to mention—all old students who distinguished themselves at Bloomsbury Square, now occupying prominent and responsible positions in this firm. “ On all these grounds, and you will see I have given you a wealth of reasons, I heartily offer the toast to Messrs. Burroughs Wellcome and Co., and I will associate with the toast the name of the chief orna- ment of the firm. Mr. Henry S. Wellcome.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29008876_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
