LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
277 
Dr. The Treasurer in Account with the Leeds Chemists' Association. 
£. s. d. 
To Balance. 4 9 7 
,, Twenty-eight Members’ Subscrip¬ 
tions. 14 0 0 
„ Twenty-six Associates’ Subscrip¬ 
tions. 3 5 0 
,, Balance due to Secretary . 1 10 11 
£23 5 6 
Cr. 
£. s. d. 
By Books and Periodicals. 3 18 4 
„ Printing, Stationery, etc. 1 15 6 
,, Lecture Room .'. 1 10 0 
„ Gratuity to Porter . 0 5 0 
,, Rent of Library. 8 0 0 
,, Reprints from Pharmaceutical 
Journal. 3 10 
,, Collector’s Commission . 0 17 0 
„ Mounting, etc., Botanical Diagrams 3 3 0 
,, Bookbinding . 0 3 4 
,, Postage, etc. 0 12 4 
£23 5 6 
Examined and found correct, 
J. B. BILBROUGH,-) . ... 
R. M. ATKINSON, $ A «ditors. 
The ballot for officers for the ensuing year was then taken, the following being the 
result:—President, Mr. Reynolds, F.C.S.; Treasurer, Mr. J. Land ; Secretary, Mr. 
Yewdall; Librarian, Mr. Ellison (Associate). Committee : Messrs. Abbott, Bilbrough, 
Brown, Smeeton, S. Taylor, and Gk Ward, F.C.S. ; Auditors, Messrs. Atkinson and 
Korsfield. 
The cordial thanks of the Association were passed to the retiring President, Mr. 
Thompson, and to the Honorary Secretary, Mr. Yewdall, for their zealous labours during 
the past year. 
The Second Meeting of the session was held on the evening of November 13, Mr. 
Reynolds, F.C.S., the President elect, in the chair. 
The Secretary called the notice of the Association to an extremely handsome pre¬ 
sent received since the close of last session. This was a life-size bust of the late Jacob 
Bell, of wonderful fidelity and very great merit as a work of art. It was to T. H. 
Hills, Esq., V.P. of the Pharmaceutical Society, that the Association was indebted for 
this unlooked-for but welcome contribution. 
Specimens of the fruiting plant of Momordica Elaterium and of scammony roots from 
Asia Minor, were presented from Mr. W. Ransom, of Hitchin. 
The best thanks of the meeting were voted for the above donations. 
Mr. Arkle (Associate) was elected Librarian in the place of Mr. Ellison, who had re - 
moved to Edinburgh. 
The President proceeded to deliver his inaugural address. After thanking the mem¬ 
bers for the goodwill conveyed by their electing him to that office, he devoted consider¬ 
able time to the question of science-teaching as a subject in connection with which 
there was a general or almost national demand that some great change in our educa¬ 
tional system should be made. The distinctions between scientific information and sci¬ 
entific training were pointed out, and the subjects selected by competent authority as 
best suited to the latter purpose were indicated, viz. experimental philosophy, chemis¬ 
try, and botany. The circumstance that these sciences are those peculiarly belonging 
to pharmaceutical education, was enforced as a reason why our body have a special 
interest in promoting sound views upon the question of general education, and in sup¬ 
porting the bolder claims now made by men of science for an equality in the Universi¬ 
ties between their own subjects and those handed dowm as means of training from the 
pre-scientific ages. The reform needed was stated to be one that must proceed from 
above downw r ards in our social system. 
The President quoted Dr. Bence Jones as to the importance of a knowledge of 
chemistry to those engaged in any department of the healing art, and he expressed his 
satisfaction at seeing the chemical and microscopical examination of urinary deposits 
brought forward prominently as subjects for the pharmaceutical student, in Professor 
Attfield’s new work. This suggested a very different estimate of the position of the 
pharmaceutist to that adopted lately by the editor of a medical paper, who asserted, by 
way of disparaging our body, “ that any neat-handed woman could be taught dispensing 
in a few months.” 
