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PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
HULL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The usual Monthly Meeting of the Hull Chemists’ Association was held at Howden’s 
Paragon Hotel, on Thursday evening, March 11th. In the absence of the President, 
Mr. Anthony Smith was unanimously voted to the chair. The minutes of the previous 
meeting were read and confirmed. The following resolution was moved, seconded, and 
carried unanimously :—“ That the Committee be called together, and they be requested 
to draw out the rules for the governance and guidance of the Association ; and the 
Committee is hereby requested to submit the same for the consideration of the members 
at an early date.” 
A cordial vote of thanks, on the motion of the Secretary, duly seconded by Mr. 
Steedman, was accorded to Mr. Smith for the very able manner in which he had occu¬ 
pied the chair. Mr. Smith briefly returned thanks. 
LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Sixth Meeting was held in the Library of the Philosophical Society, March 10, 
1869. 
The Hon. Sec., Mr. Yewdall, read the “ Pharmacy Act Amendment Bill,” introduced 
into the House of Commons by Lord Robert Montagu, and the feeling of the meeting 
was embodied in the following resolutions:— 
Resolved,—That this meeting of members of the Leeds Chemists’ Association has 
considered the “ Pharmacy Act Amendment Bill,” introduced into the House of Com¬ 
mons by Lord Robert Montagu. That whilst regarding the provisions of the same 
as unobjectionable in themselves (although they appear to be unnecessary), this meeting 
deprecates further legislation upon the subject until the persons registered under the 
Act of 1868 shall have had the opportunity of saying, through the Council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, what amendments are desirable.—Moved by Mr. S. Taylor, 
seconded by Mr. Roberts. 
Resolved,—That a copy of the foregoing resolution be sent to the Council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, and that the Committee of this Association watch the further 
progress of the Bill.—Moved by Mr. Brown, seconded by Mr. T. Wilson. 
The President, Mr. Reynolds, made the communication announced for the evening, 
entitled “ An Hour with the American Pharmaceutical Association.” By the kindness 
of Mr. Deane, of Clapham, a small series of photographic portraits of leading members 
of the American Pharmaceutical Association was exhibited. Mr. Reynolds took the 
volume of Proceedings of the Association for 1867 as a groundwork, and rapidly ran 
through its Report of the Meeting, including the Reports of Committees on the progress of 
Pharmacy, on the Drug Market, and the full text of the papers read, etc. He took 
occasion especially to commend the Report on the Progress of Pharmacy as being a 
valuable year-book of the subject, and regretted that such a record was still a desidera¬ 
tum to English pharmaceutical literature. 
Some of the points introduced led to a discussion, in which several members joined. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Ninth General Meeting held at the Royal Institution, February 18th, 1869 ; the 
President, Mr. J. F. Robinson, in the chair. 
Mr. Thomas Kershaw, of Ormskirk, was elected a member of the Association. 
Donations to the Library of the second edition of the ‘Guide to the Modified Exami¬ 
nation’; ‘The Chemist and Druggist’; the Proceedings of the Liverpool Architectural 
Society, were announced, and thanks voted to the donors. 
After some miscellaneous business, Mr. A. E. Tanner read a paper “ On some Phar¬ 
maceutical Preparations.” 
