Address of the President Sir William Bragg, O. M., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1937

This year the list of those whom death has taken from our Society is very long and heavy. John Theodore Cash (1854-1937) was a Fellow of the Society for nearly fifty years. He was very active in research during the eighties and nineties of the last century, and his work helped materially to characterize British pharmacological research of that period. The results of his more important researches were contributed to the Society. They were mainly concerned with the connexion between chemical constitution and pharmacological action and were made in conjunction with the late Sir Lauder Brunton and afterwards with Professor Dunstan. His name will always be associated with the pharmacological action of organic nitrites and of the various aconitines prepared by Dunstan. But his contributions ranged over a wide field, and many were made to other Societies and Associations. All his work was done with enthusiasm and with most painstaking care. These characteristics were shown in his various activities in connexion with the great war. Personally he was of a somewhat retiring disposition but was a charming companion for those who were favoured with his friendship. His chief recreation was salmon and trout fishing, and to a former generation he was widely known as an expert angler.