CONTENTS. 
SECOND SERIES, VOL. X.—1868-9. 
No. I. 
Prescriptions, 1. 
Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society : Meeting of Council, 3.—List of Mem¬ 
bers, Associates, and Apprentices ( continued ), 4. 
Provincial Transactions : Liverpool Chemists’ Association, 4. 
Original and Extracted Articles : On Recent Changes in Chemical Notation and 
Atomic Weights. W. A. Tilden, F.C.S., etc. ( concluded ), 7.—On Black Wax. 
Walter G. Smith, M.D., etc., 11.—The Royal Microscopical Society. Joseph Ince, 
F.R.M.S., 14.—Nitrous Oxide as an Anaesthetic, 20.—The Pharmacy Bill:—Mr. 
Richard Reynolds, 22 ; Mr. George Edwards, 23 ; Mr. B. Proctor, 24 ; Mr. T. W. 
Gissing, 26.—Poisonous Property of Hemlock. Mr. F. H. Lescher, 26.—Abstracts 
and Gleanings from British and Foreign Journals in Botany, Materia Medica, and 
Therapeutics, 27.— Absinthe, 30.—Indelible Marking-Ink, prepared from Aniline, 
33.—The Properties of Benzoline, or Sponge-Lamp Spirit, 33.—Debates in the 
House of Lord on the Bill to Regulate the Sale of Poisons and Alter and Amend 
the Pharmacy Act of 1852, 35.—The Present State of Pharmacy in Ireland. Mr. 
T. J. Monaghan, 41.—A Bill to Amend the “ Act for Preventing the Adulteration 
of Articles of Food or Drink, 1860,” and to Extend its Provisions to Drugs, 42.— 
Dinner to Mr. Watts, 42.—Suicide of a Chemist by Prussic Acid, 43.—Extraordi¬ 
nary Death from Poison, 43.—Action against a Druggist for Selling Poison for 
Medicine, 44.— Obituary : Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, F.R.S., 44.—Odden Ham- 
brook, 46.— Miscellanea , 47.— Books Received , 47.— Correspondents , 47. 
No. II. 
The Sale of Poisons and Extension of Pharmacy Act, 49.—Means for Preventing 
Accidental Poisoning, 51.—Physicians’ Prescriptions, 53. 
Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society : Meeting of Council, 54.—List of Mem¬ 
bers, Associates, and Apprentices {continued) , 54.—Formation of a Chemical Society 
. in Newcastle, 56.—Debates in the House of Commons on the Bill to Regulate the 
Sale of Poisons and Alter and Amend the Pharmacy Act of 1852, 57.—A Bill [as 
Amended in Committee] intituled an Act to Regulate the Sale of Poisons and 
Alter and Amend the Pharmacy Act, 1852,76.—British Pharmaceutical Conference. 
Fifth Annual Meeting, 84. 
Original and Extracted Articles: On Mr. Wood’s Paper upon Liquor Bismuthi et 
Ammonia; Citratis. Mr. G. F. Schacht, 85.—The Purification of Bismuth. Mr. 
G. Brownen, 86.—Note on Metallic Bismuth, and Liquor Bismuthi et Ammonias 
Citratis. Dr. Redwood, 87.—Note on a New Adulteration of Subnitrate of Bis- 
