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incurred in the use of the ordinary pastilles as commonly sold for disinfec¬ 
tion. 
I have examined a very large number of these, in this country and in Scot¬ 
land, and find that, with few exceptions, they are made by simply “ casting” 
sulphur into suitable moulds, the fluid element being mixed with a little 
finely divided charcoal, or black-lead in some instances. They do not burn 
evenly, retaining their form, like the aromatic pastilles ; but speedily fuse, 
and become little pools, as it were, of “liquid fire,” difficult to extinguish, 
and extremely liable to inflame surrounding objects. As a rule, these “ dis¬ 
infecting pastilles ” are placed in the hands of some servant, who simply ap¬ 
plies a match to their point, and leaves them to “ burn outthus, I hear 
from a correspondence with several insurance offices, have many “ accidental 
fires ” originated during the last few years, to the endangerment of life and 
property. 
I have lately suggested a preferable mode of manufacture, which is now 
being very largely adopted, several hundredweights per month of these pas¬ 
tilles being made at this time. 
Pure sulphur is reduced to a state of minute division, and intimately mixed 
with about 20 per cent, of fresh dry plaster of Paris, some charcoal, and a 
mere trace of nitre ; when mixed, a little stiff flour-paste is added, and the 
whole brought to a dough-like consistency under powerful stones. This 
dough, being formed in the requisite moulds into “pastilles,” the latter are 
finally dried by steam-heat. Such pastilles burn slowly and evenly, not 
liquefying, and can be readily extinguished if required. 
{End of the Second Day's Sitting.) 
Third Sitting. 
The Executive Committee brought up certain recommendations as to the 
election of foreign members, in accordance with the resolution passed at the 
previous sitting. They suggested that for the present the limit to the list of 
foreign members should be twenty, and they recommended the immediate 
election of the seven following gentlemen, viz.:— 
Professor P. Wendover Bedford, College of 
Pharmacy, New York City, U. S. A., 
Corresponding Secretary of the American 
Pharmaceutical Association. 
M. Augustin Ambroise Delondre, Membre 
de la Societe Botanique de France, de la 
Socie'te Imperiale d’Acclimatation, Che¬ 
valier de l’Ordre Imperiale de la Bose 
(Bresil) etc., Bue St. Dierre, 3, Sevres. 
Mr. Albert E. Ebert, Chicago, Illinois,U.S.A. 
Dr. J. B. Edwards, Ph.D., F.C.S., etc., Ex- 
Vice-President of the British Pharma¬ 
ceutical Conference, 73, Alexander Street, 
Montreal, Dominion of Canada. 
Dr. F. A. Fliickiger, Bern, Switzerland. 
Professor Edward Parrish, College of Phar¬ 
macy, Philadelphia, U. S. A. 
Professor William Procter, jun., College 
of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, U. S. A. 
A ballot was taken, and the due election of the above as foreign members was 
announced by the President. 
Resumed Discussion on the Pharmacy Act. 
The President said that it was impossible that an Act of this nature should 
be free from imperfections, but there was a difference between a consideration 
of these as practical questions and the introduction of hypothetical objections 
which could so easily be raised. He trusted that the discussion would not be¬ 
come needlessly diffuse by the introduction of these last-named questions. 
