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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
JACOB BELL SCHOLARSHIPS. 
The Board of Examiners presented their Report on the Examinations for these Scho¬ 
larships. 
The following awards were made:— 
Senior .Joseph Bemrose. 
Junior ..Alfred Neobard Palmer. 
The Board also presented their Report on the Examinations for the Pereira Medal 
(Major Examination), and the Prize of Books (Minor Examination). 
The PEREIRA MEDAL was awarded to 
Hermann Woolley. 
PRIZE OF BOOKS. 
Neither of the Candidates obtained the number of marks required for this prize. 
The Professor of Botany reported on the Herbaria received in competition for the 
Botanical Prize. 
A Certificate of Merit was awarded to 
Charles Fryer, Registered Apprentice, Guildford. 
The Medals and Certificates will be distributed at the Evening Meeting, on the 2nd 
October next, when the successful competitors will be expected to attend. 
In future, Candidates for the Major Examination will be required to show a practical 
knowledge of the use of simple tests and of the volumetric solutions of the Pharmacopoeia. 
The British Pharmacopoeia of 1867 will hereafter be used in the Examinations. 
A Bill to amend the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854- having been introduced to Par¬ 
liament by the Duke of Richmond, which would render it penal to supply medicines for 
ship use without a licence from the Board of Trade, the President stated that he had in¬ 
structed the Secretary to obtain the consent of his Grace to receive a deputation on the 
subject; that consent was immediately granted, and an appointment made for 3 p.m. 
this day (August 7), at the Board of Trade. 
The following gentlemen were named to form the deputation:—The President; Mr. 
Brady, of Newcastle; Mr. H. Sugden Evans, of Liverpool; Messrs. Darby, Hora, and 
Morson, of London. 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
The Report of the Benevolent Fund Dinner Committee having been read,* it was— 
Resolved,—That it be received and adopted, and that the Treasurer be, and is hereby 
requested to invest in Consols the balance of £21. 17s. 8d., now in hand, making, with 
the sum, £1589. 17s. 6d., previously invested, the net amount of £1611. 15s. 2d. re¬ 
ceived on account of the Dinner. 
The sum of ten pounds was granted to the daughter of a deceased member of the 
Society, at Southampton. 
The following letter was read and ordered to be entered on the minutes :— 
“ Elias Bremridge , Esq., 11 Shanghae, May 20, 1867. 
“ Secretary, Pharmaceutical Society. 
“ Dear Sir,—We have before us the March number of the Pharmaceutical Journal, 
and we have felt much satisfaction in the perusal of your article on the dinner for the 
benefit of the Benevolent Fund, in February last. 
“While we regret that distance precludes our partaking of a crumb of your festivity, 
we send you our best wishes for the success of the Society, and with them, a crumb 
* For report of Committee, see page 102. 
