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trade ; consequently your Honorary Secretary forwarded the resolution to Messrs. Brem- 
ridge and Bucftt, to be submitted to the respective Councils of the two societies previous 
to their meeting at a conference to consider the question, and at which conference an 
agreeable unanimity was displayed, auguring well for the success of contemplated 
legislation. 
The result of the conference of the two societies was, that a Bill was again drawn up by 
the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, of a more liberal nature than the one sub¬ 
mitted to Parliament in 1865, and, at a meeting of this Association specially convened to 
consider the Bill, it met with the general approval of those present except on two or 
three points, which, in their opinion, needed revision. Resolutions were accordingly 
adopted, indicating the alterations proposed, and a copy sent to both societies, from 
both of whom they met with a favourable reception. Owing, however, to Parliament 
being engaged in considering a Reform Bill and other important measures, it w r as not 
found practicable to pass a Pharmacy Bill, and the introduction of it is postponed to the 
forthcoming session of Parliament. 
Your Committee would again draw attention to the provisions of the Petroleum Act 
as to the regulations for its storage, and the penalties for non-compliance with the Act, 
and would advise the members to make themselves fully acquainted with the subject, 
as it is understood its provisions are to be most stringently enforced. 
The Annual Dinner on the 26th of February last being again most successful, your Com¬ 
mittee recommend a similar reunion at an earlier period, and would suggest Tuesday, 
the 18th of February, as the most convenient for the festivity. 
Appended is the usual statement of accounts for the past year, showing a balance in 
hand of £6. 5s. Id. 
Receipts. 
To Balance in band and Subscriptions, 
1867 . 
£ s. d. 
16 19 11 
Expenditure. 
£ s. d. 
To Postages, Stationery, Meetings, 
Sundries, and Annual Dinner . 10 14 4 
Balance in baud . 6 5 7 
£16 9 11 
Signed— George Dennis, Chairman. 
Thos. Cooper, Treasurer, 
John Brown, Secretary. 
York , January 31 st, 1868. 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
ON LIQUOR BISMUTIII ET AMMONLE CITRATIS. 
BY C. H. WOOD, F.C.S. 
Through the medium of the advertisement columns of the medical journals 
Mr. Schacht, of Clifton, has recently cast some disparagement on the Liquor 
bismuthi et ammonise citratis of the new British Pharmacopoeia. As this pre¬ 
paration is obviously intended to represent the very elegant solution of bismuth 
introduced into pharmacy a few years back by Mr. Schacht himself, it becomes a 
matter of some interest to determine the justice of Mr. Schacht s remarks upon 
it. Although Mr. Scliacht’s process has not been published, analysis has shown 
that the original u Liq. Bismuthi ’’ contains an ainmonio-citrate of bismuth, 
and several methods have been proposed for producing this compound. But 
most of these have been somewhat complicated and troublesome. 
The process given in the Pharmacopoeia possesses two great advantages. It is 
extremely simple and easy of execution, and it furnishes a liquor of perfectly 
uniform and definite strength. Assuming the materials employed to be pure, it 
yields a solution of ammonio-citrate of bismuth containing only nitrate of am¬ 
monia in addition. AVe may fairly suppose that the authois of the Pharma- 
