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by this means the carbon, which there undergoes complete combustion under 
ordinary circumstances, is precipitated, carried into the upper part of the 
flame, and rendered available for the production of light. 
In addition to the articles already enumerated, were a phosphorescent 
butterfly, shown by the aid of a magnesium lamp, and a new form of pano¬ 
ramic stereoscopes from Messrs. Murray and Heath ; surgical instruments, 
including sphvgmograph, endoscope, etc., from Mr. H. Baker ; spectroscopes, 
from Messrs. Spencer, Browning, and Co. ; specimens of new chemical com¬ 
pounds, phosphoric amides, and salts, from Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S.; a 
collection of pharmaceutical preparations, (B. P., 1867), from Messrs. Hearon, 
Squire, and Francis; minerals and fossils, from Professor Tennant; cases of 
stuffed birds and double horn of rhinoceros, from Mr. Lead beater ; articulated 
skeletons, from Mr. Highley ; minerals, from Mr. Bryce M. Wright; the pro¬ 
cess of stamping cameos in soap, from Messrs. D. and W T . Gibbs; jars for 
storing infusions, a portable shower-bath, etc., from Messrs. Wheeler and 
Croucher ; extract of meat, with biscuits and lozenges containing the same, 
from Messrs. Coleman ; a new form of soda-water rack, from Messrs. Burrows, 
of Malvern; a perfume fountain, from Mr. Rimmel; orris plant in flower, 
from Messrs. Piesse and Lubin ; models, showing a method of internal com¬ 
munication between passengers and guards in railway-travelling, from Mr. 
G. Lansdown ; very handsome shop-flttings, from Mr. Treble; models of 
Bramah-press and other philosophical apparatus, from Mr. B. Oborne, etc. 
etc. Refreshments were supplied, in the Laboratory, by Mr. Day. 
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
The Annual Meeting of Members was held on Wednesday, 12th May, at 
twelve o’clock. 
MR. GEORGE W. SANDFORD, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting,—- 
The Chairman spoke as follows :— 
Gentlemen,—I am once more permitted to welcome you here at our annual 
meeting, and I can but feel that you will be tired of seeing me so often in this 
chair,—you will think, as I do, that it might be more worthily filled. But there 
were unsettled questions standing open when the new Council entered on its 
duties last year,— questions in which I had taken great interest, and, as far as 
my humble power permitted, an active part; for that reason, I think, it was 
the desire of my colleagues that I should once more act as their President. 
Gentlemen, I regard it as no small honour now to be the President of the 
Pharmaceutical Society. That Society has grown in strength as it increased in 
years, and 1 think that those of us who are old enough to compare the condi¬ 
tion of chemists and druggists of this present time with those of thirty years 
ago, cannot fail to accord a certain amount of credit to this Institution for the 
work it has performed. The power to effect whatever we may have done has 
been obtained by union, and if that union was brought about, in the first in¬ 
stance, by the fear of interference, it has been continued since that fear was 
allayed by higher motives,—motives conducive to the public good as well as to 
our own advancement; for surely the public good must be promoted by the 
better qualification of those who have to minister to its wants in matters of 
danger. You may, perhaps, say it is of no use blowing the trumpet over our 
