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LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
REGISTERED 
APPRENTICES AND 
STUDENTS. 
Name. 
Residing with 
Address. 
Bouttell, Harold . 
...Mr. Oxley. 
Burcham, Robert. 
...Mr. Swift. 
Edden, Thomas Lewis . 
...Mr. Commans . 
Gray, John . 
...Mr. Peele . 
Heanley, George Frederick... 
. Mr. Heanley. 
.Peterborough. 
Hughes, John Smith . 
...Mr. Swift. 
.Spalding. 
Humphreys, Henry James ... 
Mr. Tartt .. 
.Liverpool. 
Jones, William II. 
...Mr. Ball . 
.Landport. 
Ludwell, William James ... 
...Mr. Matthiason.. 
.Birmingham. 
Negus, Joseph..•. 
...Mr, Maxey . 
.Wisbech. 
Perry, Arthur . 
Southwell, Charles Henry ... 
...Mr. Pilcher . 
.Boston. 
BOARD OF EXAMINERS, London, June 26th, 1867. 
Present—Messrs. Carteighe, Davenport, Deane, Gale, Garle, and Haselden. 
Three candidates presented themselves ; the following passed and were registered as 
Pharmaceutical Chemists:— 
Lear, Wm. Morrell.Bath. 
Strickland, Wm. Henry .London. 
BOARD OF EXAMINERS, Edinburgh, June 18 th, 1867. 
Mr. Young in the chair. 
MAJOR (registered as Pharmaceutical Chemists). 
Ball, Alfred.Loughborough. 
Gilmour, William .Edinburgh. 
APPRENTICE. 
Carnachan, George J.Mr. Carnachan.Alexandria, N.B. 
PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Fourteenth General Meeting, held at the Royal Institution, May 9th, 1867; the Pre¬ 
sident, Mr. R. Sumner, in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and passed. 
The Secretary announced several donations, and the thanks of the meeting were 
passed to the donors. 
The President exhibited seeds of the Myroxylon, the tree from which the balsam of 
Peru is obtained. 
Mr. Abraham showed a copy of the new Pharmacopoeia, and praised it as being well 
arranged, explicit, and practical. 
The President then called upon Mr. A. Fraser to read a paper on “The Preparation 
and Purification of Sulphuric, Nitric, and Hydrochloric Acids.” 
The writer gave an account of the various processes for preparing sulphuric acid, the 
means for obtaining the anhydrous acid, and the steps for separating the impurities so 
as to have a chemically pure acid as the result. The purification of hydrochloric acid 
was next treated, and various methods of obtaining pure acid were pointed out. 
In treating of nitric acid, the process of nitrification was explained, and the conditions 
