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The public, as purchasers, will still be authorized to have articles examined 
by the analysts on payment of a small fee. 
These appear to be the most important provisions of the proposed measure ; 
and although some modifications might perhaps be made with advantage in a 
few of the details, the Bill would no doubt provide efficient means of making 
the law available for the purposes contemplated. 
THE SANDFORD TESTIMONIAL FUND. 
The subscription list to this fund having been closed, in accordance with a 
resolution passed some time ago by the Committee, a meeting was held on 
Monday, the 19th of April, to decide on the manner of applying the amount 
which has been raised. It had been previously arranged, in the event of the 
fund being sufficient, that the testimonial should consist of a portrait of Mr. 
Sandford, President of the Pharmaceutical Society, and a service of plate, to be 
presented as a mark of the high appreciation which has been formed of the va¬ 
luable services which he has rendered to the Society. The amount of the sub¬ 
scriptions was found to be ample for the accomplishment of these two objects, and 
a Committee was therefore appointed to carry them into effect at as early a period 
as possible. The service of plate will be presented on Wednesday, the 19th of 
May, at 3 p.m., in the Theatre of the Pharmaceutical Society, after the Anni¬ 
versary Meeting of the Society. 
It is proposed that in the evening of the same day there shall be a dinner to 
celebrate the occasion, at the Freemasons’ Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s 
Inn Fields, at which Mr. Sandford will be the honoured guest. 
PHARMACY ACT AMENDMENT BILL. 
This Bill passed the second reading on the 6th of April, without alteration or 
remark. It stands for Committee on Thursday, the 29th of May, and it is ex¬ 
pected that some additions will then be made in it. 
TESTIMONIAL TO DR. ODLING, LATE HONORARY SECRE¬ 
TARY TO THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 
A very gratifying recognition of the valuable services which for several years 
have been gratuitously rendered to the Chemical Society by one of the most 
able, zealous, and accomplished of its members, took place at the Albion Hotel, 
in Aldersgate Street, on Tuesday, the 20th April, when a large number of the 
past and present members of the Council of the Society invited Dr. Odling to a 
complimentary dinner, at which they presented him with a handsome silver cup 
( u loving cup”), which the Chairman, Dr. De la Rue, banded to him amid the 
hearty congratulations of his numerous friends. There is no man in the Che¬ 
mical Society who, during the last ten or twelve years, has exerted a more im¬ 
portant and beneficial influence in raising the scientific character of the Society, 
than has Dr. Odling, and he richly deserves the mark of esteem and admiration 
which his late colleagues have so handsomely conferred upon him. Dr. Odling 
is an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
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