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TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, April 1st, 1868, 
Present—Messrs. Abraham, Bottle, Brady, Bourdas, Carteighe, Deane, Evans, Hills, 
luce, Mackay, Morson, Randall, Sandford, Savage, Squire, Standring, and Waugh, 
The following Pharmaceutical Chemists were elected 
MEMBERS. 
Coleman, Alfred .London. 
Kitchin, Archibald .Whitehaven. 
Lloyd, John .Swansea. 
Marks, Nelson Samuel.. .Queensland. 
Oldfield, Francis .Scarborough. 
Resolved,—That a Conversazione be held on Tuesday evening, the 19th May, at eight 
o’clock, and that the General Annual Meeting of the Society be held on the following 
day at twelve o’clock. 
The Council prepared a list of persons nominated for election and eligible to be 
elected Members of the Council and Auditors for the ensuing year. 
A letter was read from the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education applying 
for the loan of the portrait of the late William Allen, for the purpose of being exhibited 
at the National Portrait Exhibition, South Kensington. The Secretary was instructed 
to inform their Lordships that the Council would willingly comply with their request. 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
The Treasurer was requested to purchase £476. 9s. Id. Consols, making, with the 
sum already invested, £9500. 
The sum of Twenty Pounds (second grant) was ordered to be paid to the distressed 
widow (age seventy-five) of a late Member of the Society in Yorkshire. 
BOARD OF EXAMINERS, April 15 th, 1868. 
Present—Messrs. Bird, Carteighe, Cracknell, Darby, Deane, Edwards, Evans, Gale, 
Hanbury, Haselden, and Squire. 
Eighteen candidates presented themselves for the Major and Minor Examinations. 
The following fifteen passed, and were duly registered:— 
MAJOR (as Pharmaceutical Chemists). 
Hughes, Henry Martyn .Newcastle Emlyn. 
*Sims, Charles Redman Hindostan. Warminster. 
MINOR (as Assistants). 
Driver, Alfred .Dover. 
Forster, Henry .Durham. 
Gerrard, Alfred William .London. 
Hale, Albert Henry.London. 
Hughes, John Taylor .Altrincham. 
Joule, John Samuel.Buxton. 
* Passed in honours; eligible, at the end of the Session, to compete for the Pereira Medal. 
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