NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
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The Medical Formulary : being a Collection of Prescriptions derived from the 
Writings and Practice of many of the most Eminent Physicians in America and 
Europe, together with the usual Dietetic Preparations and Antidotes for Poisons. To 
which is added an Appendix on the Endermic Use of Medicines, and on the Use of 
Ether and Chloroform. The whole accompanied with a few brief Pharmaceutical 
and Medical Observations, by Benjamin Ellis, M.D., etc. Twelfth Edition, carefully 
revised and much improved by Albert H. Smith, M.D., etc. Philadelphia : Henry 
C. Lea. London : Triibner and Co., Paternoster Row. 1868. 
The above voluminous explanatory title sufficiently indicates the character of this 
Formulary. 
The Modified Examination of the Pharmaceutical Society, etc. By F. Har¬ 
wood Lescher. 
A notice of this useful little work will be found at page 450. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical 
Society and Record of Histological Research at Home and Abroad. Edited by 
Henry Lawson, M D., etc. London : Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. 
Pharmacopoeia Recentiores Anglia, Gallica, Germania, Helvetica, Russia 
inter se collata. Supplementum Manualis Pharmaceutici Hageri. H. Hager, 
Ph.D. Vratislaviae, Impensis Ernesti Giintheri. London : Triibner and Co. 1869. 
THE CHEMISTS’ ANNUAL BALL. 
The third Chemists’ Annual Ball was held at Willis’s Rooms, St. James’s, London, on 
Wednesday evening, January 20th. The leading wholesale and retail pharmacies, and 
the ‘ head-quarters ’ at Bloomsbury were fully represented on the occasion, which was 
one rather of a large and thoroughly agreeable private party than a mere ball. The 
President, Treasurer, Secretary, and several members of the Council of the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society, some provincial friends, including a few from Edinburgh and Newcastle, 
and London visitors, to the number of nearly three hundred, were present. 
TO CO RUES PON DENTS. 
Persons having seceded from the Society may be restored to their former 
status on payment of arrears of subscription and the registration fee of the 
current year. 
Those who were Associates before the 1st of July, 1842, are privileged (as 
Founders of the Society) to become Members, and by virtue of membership to 
be registered as Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
The Secretary and Registrar desires to intimate that no anonymous communications, 
or letters signed with initials only, will be answered. 
The Pharmacy Act and Wholesale Assistants. —Sir,—Will you kindly allow me, by 
inserting this letter in the next number of the ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal,’ to draw the 
attention of wholesale assistants to the fact that a petition has been presented to the 
Privy Council, praying “that the word ‘immediately’ may be erased from the certificate 
required by Schedule E, or that such other relief may be granted as will place wholesale 
on equal terms with retail assistants ?” 
In the event of this petition not proving successful, it may be advisable to address one 
to the House of Commons, in which case it would be well for provincial assistants to 
support it, either by petitioning separately, or by sending up sheets of signatures to be 
attached to the London petition. 
The movement has met with the approval of all the wholesale firms in London, and 
it is believed that most of the members of the Pharmaceutical Council sympathize with 
the petitioners; and I trust you will further aid by making the matter more widely 
known. Yours respectfully, 
London, January 21 st, 1869. J. C. 
J. W. B. (Woodbridge).—The consistence of a soft jelly. 
