'October 5, 1895 
THE CHEMIST AlsD DRUGGIST 
•fihey might approach the President of the BDard oE Trade, 
^and should the Bill be intro luce i with the clause in its 
original form, then they would endeavour to get it modified 
as they wished At all events, it was desirable that they 
should press the matter forward during the next few 
mouths, and endeavour in this way to remove some of the 
difficulties which surrounded their labour as pharmacists. 
(Hear, hear ) 
In reply to Mr. Storrar, the President stated that the 
Pharmacy Bill matter was not likely to come before the 
Council until December. 
The Vice-President seconded the motion, and said that 
they would be neglecting their own duty if they did not 
push the company matter forward. It was proposed to 
approach the Medical Council, the Royal College of Veteri- 
nary Surgeons, and the Dental Association, who were 
interested as they were, and get them to assist in securing 
for personal qualification that recognition which was 
necessary for the interests of the people. (Hear, hear.) 
The motion was agreed to. 
MANCHE3TBR SCHOLARSHIP. 
In consequence of a request by the Research Committee, 
the donor of the Manchester Association Scholarship had 
been asked to authorise the payment of the scholarship 
money to Mr. T. A. Henry, a Research scholar, who is a Lanca- 
shire man, and this he agreed to; 351. was therefore voted 
to Mr. Henry. Thereupon Mr. Maetindale suggested that 
the donor should be approached in order to extend the area 
of selection, so as to include the northern counties generally, 
but Mr. Young replied that the donor had distinctly 
declined that when previously asked. He was surprised that 
the district which produced such a good man as Mr. Henry 
bad lately been unable to send forward a man competent to 
take the scholarship. 
This was all the public business. 
OPENING OF THE SESSION. 
At 3 o’clock the lecture-theatre was comfortably filled 
with men, women, and students, and the hands of the clock 
had not got so far as 3 2 when the President came in 
accompanied by an attcoelie (Count Siegfried Clary) from the 
Austrian Embassy. Members of the Council quickly followed, 
and work was commenced at once. We may say that the 
attendance was exceptionally representative. To the left we 
observed Messrs. Cornelius Hanbury, Frederick J. Hanbury, 
and Howard, jun., while in front were suffi men as Messrs. 
G. S. Taylor, J. C. XJmney, A. W. Garrard, J. E Saul. J. 
Macdonald (J. P. Macfarlan Co ), W. M. Holmes, J. Hislop, 
Thomas Greenish, E. N. Butt, John Moss, Bowen, and most 
of the councillors. The 
Presentation op the Hanbury Medal 
was the first item of business. The President briefly 
referred to the circumstances which led to the creation of 
the Hanbury Memorial Trust, and the couditions uoon which 
the medal is now presented. This year the choice of the 
committee had fallen upon Hofrath Professor A. Vogl, of 
Vienna. (Applause,) Continuing. Mr. Carteighe said : — I 
believe I had the honour to be the secretary of the committee 
which created the fund, and I have also had the honour to 
present several of the medals. You are aware that the medal 
commemorates a special branch of knowledge, of which there 
have been many exponents in this country, but none so eminent 
as Daniel Hanbury, who amidst the cares of business pur- 
sued his studies, made researches, and was looked upon 
universally as an authority. It would have been possible 
for him to become a professor of pharmacognosy if he had so 
chosen, and it was to his credit that he contrived, while assist- 
ing in the carrying-on of an historic house in pharmacy 
and duiing spare hours, to make a great many experi- 
ments and many discoveries in pharmacognosy, and to write 
papers upon the history of drugs. He was always looked 
upon as one of our distinguished members. I have only to 
say that the award of this medal is made under a deed of 
'trust which was arranged at a meeting of the subscribers 
after Haubury’s death, and lies in the hands of the Presi- 
dents of the Pharmaceutical Society. Linneau Society, 
Chemical Society, and of the British Pharmaceutical Con- i 
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ference, with a pharmacist. The award of this medal 
is not by examination-papers, nor by application at all. 
These gentlemen have to look round on all sides of the 
Continent, including America, for a man who has distin- 
guished himself in the particular sort of work in which 
Hanbury interested himself. It is needless to say that the 
number of men of that kind is not large. The first condition 
requisite is that they are engaged in the prosecution of the 
natural history of drags. Among those who have done 
special work in connection with the natural history of 
Dr. August Emil Vogl, at p'-eaent Professor of Pharmacognosy anfi Pharma- 
cology at the University of Vienna, is the son of a pharmacist at Weiss- 
kirchen, in Moravia, where he was born on August 3, 1833. He was an 
ardent botanist from his childhood, and when 21 years old commenced 
to study medicine at Vienna. Before his studies were completed the 
war of 1859, between Austria and Sardinia and France, broke out, an*'' 
Vogl was sent to Italy to serve in the military hospitals at Mantua 
and elsewhere. Wnen the war was ended Vogl took his doctor’s degree 
and thenceforward devoted himself entirely to scientiSc work, especially 
botany. In 1887 he was appointed Librarian to the Josefiaum, Vienna, 
and, two years later, assistant to Professor Schneider, Director of the 
University Chemical Laboratory. In that position Dr. Vogl wrote the^ 
pharmacognosy of the commentary to the Austrian Pharmacopceia. 
In 1870 Dr. Vogl accepted the Chair of Botany and Zoology at the 
German Polytechnic in Prague, and in 1874 (having also in the mean- 
time acted as editor of the scientifle journal, Logos) he succeeded Dr. 
V n Schroff as Professor of Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology at 
Vienna. Among Professor Vogl’s num rous writings on scientific sub- 
jects, his “ Comnientar zur Oestcreichischen Pharmacopcie,” “ Lehrbuch 
der ArzneLmittel Lehre ” (written jointly with W. Barutzek), and his 
“ Anatoraischer Atlas zar Pharmakognosie ” are the host known. Tlie 
Professor is described as an exceedingly quiet and modest man, very 
popular with bis students. His wife is an Italian lady, whose 
acquaintance made at Mantua during the war. 
drugs is tns distinguished professor to whom the award 
is being made this year. He has distinguished himself 
in what is called pharmacognosy — that is to say, that 
particular application of materia medica which has refer- 
ence to the histology of drugs — the cutting-up and 
analysing of dru?s. Professor Vogl has written many papers, 
and he has published a more complete monograph with ilkis- 
trations on the subject than any one man. In the judgment of 
the committee of judges, Professor Vogl is entitled to this 
award, and the committee have asked him to accept it. 
Professor Vogl is not able to be present to-day. He is like a 
