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IN your issue of October 18 appears (p. 594) a review of the essay for which I was awarded the medal of the Royal Botanic Society, in which the writer makes a great point of my omitting all reference to drugs. He does not state, for the information of your readers, that the prize was offered for the best (not necessarily complete) essay on the “Vegetable Substances introduced into Britain for use in the Arts, Manufactures, Food, and Domestic Economy during the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.” It is not necessary that one should be either “a member of the medical profession” or have “a wholesome dread of drugs” to know that drugs used as medicines could not with any fitness be introduced into this essay; indeed, inquiry from the Secretary elicited the fact that they had been purposely excluded.
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ELLIS, J. The Queen's Jubilee Prize Essay of the Royal Botanic Society of London. Nature 39, 10 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039010a0
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