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PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Annual Meeting, held at the Royal Institution, October 1, 1868. The President, 
Mr. R. Sumner, in the chair. 
The following gentlemen were elected Members:—Mr. Thomas Gawith, 47, Lime 
Street; Mr. N. S. Cohen, 56, Hanover Street; Mr. J. Doughty, 11, King Street, Chester; 
Mr. J. E. Parker, 56, Hanover Street. Mr. R. M. Sumner was elected an Associate. 
Donations to the Library, during the recess, of the Pharmaceutical Journal, the 
Chemist and Druggist, the New York Druggist Circular, Report of the Alumni Asso¬ 
ciation of Philadelphia, and Proceedings of the Liverpool Polytechnic Society, were an¬ 
nounced, and thanks voted to the donors. 
A portrait of Mr. H. S. Evans, presented by him to the Association, was exhibited, 
and thanks voted to him for the gift. 
The Secretary then read the Annual Report:— 
The review of the proceedings of the past Session, which your Council annually lays 
before you, in some years presents no marked variation from the ordinary course of the 
Association’s progress; whilst in others it records some decided advance, either in the 
means of usefulness provided, or in the success which has attended them. During the 
nineteenth Session of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association an event has happened of the 
highest importance to many of its members, and your Council trusts that its efforts 
have been commensurate with the responsibility which has fallen upon it. 
In many respects the past Session has been one on which your Council looks back 
with pleasure. There has been an addition to our numbers of nineteen Members and 
eight Associates during the year; twenty-one have resigned, removed, or died, leaving 
a hundred and thirty-eight on the books at present. 
The papers read during the Session have brought before you many of the impor¬ 
tant questions of the day. The blending of scientific chemistry with practical ques¬ 
tions of pharmacy has characterized them, and with the miscellaneous meetings, in which 
much mutual interchange of information and friendly discussion have taken place, the 
results of the Session, in this respect, will compare favourably with those of any former 
one. Your Council would, however, call the attention of members to the fact that the 
burden of supplying papers has been suffered to fall upon a very few, and it would in¬ 
vite the contribution of short papers by those who do not wish to occupy an entire 
evening. 
In the Report of last year, attention was called to the unsatisfactory state of the 
Museum. Your Council has not neglected the matter, and the Library and Museum 
Committee has commenced the rearrangement with a special view to the illustration of 
the Materia Medica of the Pharmacopoeia. Already the officinal articles have been se¬ 
parated from the non-officinal, and the former Arranged in alphabetical order. Much 
remains to be done, and before even a passable representation of the Materia Medica can 
be made, many gaps must be filled up. Your Council hopes that as the deficiencies in 
the Museum can now be readily ascertained, the Members will endeavour to supply 
them. 
The Library has been well used by the members ; three hundred and forty books 
having been taken out during the past Session, an increase of forty on the previous one. 
The educational efforts of the Association have not been without fruit, although your 
Council would have rejoiced to see greater appreciation of the means of instruction 
afforded. During the last Session arrangements were made with the Honorary Secre¬ 
tary, Mr. E. Davies, for the delivery of a course of lectures on Chemistry, free to the 
Members, and your Council has had much satisfaction in the result. The lectures have 
been of high character and ably illustrated, and your Council has much pleasure in an¬ 
nouncing that they will be continued during the next Session. The Practical Chemistry 
class was composed of only three students. 
The question of pharmaceutical education has now assumed an importance which it 
did not previously possess. All who intend to make Pharmacy their business, must ob¬ 
tain the necessary qualifications, and while your Council feels the responsibilities thrown 
