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BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
Rogers, Charles, Eye and Ear Hospital, Birmingham. 
Contrivance to illustrate a new method of tying over and securing corks 
and stoppers in bottles; a capsule to prevent accidental poisoning 
on the principle of arresting the attention of the person using the bottle. 
Box of jewellery powder. 
Schacht, G. F., Clifton. 
Australian bismuth ore. 
This ore is highly cuprous, and is probably the source of the cuprous metallic 
bismuth that has of late been frequently found in commerce. 
Crystallized metallic bismuth, a fine specimen. Liquor bismuthi. 
Silverloce, H., London. 
Specimens of labels specially adapted for poisonous substances, some of 
them tinted and of novel design. 
Spencer, Mr., Burnham Market, Norfolk. 
English opium, a large mass weighing three pounds, collected at Burnham 
Westgate, Norfolk, by the late Sir Roger Martin. 
Stocker, A. S., Artillery Street, Horselydown. 
Improved feeding-bottle. 
Sutton, Francis, Norwich. 
Various glass retorts, test tubes, flasks, beakers, and other glass apparatus 
employed for general chemical purposes. 
A complete collection of graduated instruments for volumetric analysis, in¬ 
cluding some very elegant stoppered burettes and pipettes with revolving 
stands. 
Standard volumetric solutions of the British Pharmacopoeia. 
Tomlinson, Matthew, Hulme, Manchester. 
Specie jar 24 inches high, with glass cover and mahogany stand; glass 
panelled soda-water stand with ornamental plate-glass top. 
Van Abbott, George, London. 
Foods and wines specially suited for invalids ; food for infants. 
Wilson, B. O. and G. C., Boston, U.S. 
Compressed and dried medicinal herbs in small packets. These specimens 
are remarkable for their good colour and fragrance. They include pep¬ 
permint, spearmint, pennyroyal, horehound, tansy, feverfew, wormwood, 
wintergreen, raspberry leaves, flowers of Sambucus canadensis , sage, 
summer savory, etc. 
Yates, James, F.R.S., Highgate. 
Measures and weights illustrating the metric system, together with books, 
pamphlets, and a chart bearing on the subject. The collection includes 
a metallic half-metre, very finely graduated, and sent for exhibition 
at the Norwich Meeting of the British Association by the makers, Messrs. 
Darling, Brown, and Sharpe, Providence, Rhode Island. 
Male flowers, fruits and leaf of Cycas revoluta , and coloured drawings of 
the plant. 
Dr. Matthiessen also kindly sent for exhibition a liquid alloy of potassium 
and sodium. Its appearance was identical with that of mercury ; its specific 
gravity was about '80, and it was protected by immersion in a sealed tube 
filled up by a liquid hydrocarbon. 
