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CORRESPONDENCE. 
appeal may be made to the next succeeding sessions to be held for such division or 
town); and it shall be lawful for such court of quarter sessions or recorder, as the case 
may be, to decide such appeal, if made in such form and manner, and with such 
notices, as are required by the Petty Sessions Acts respectively hereinbefore mentioned 
as to appeals against orders made by justices at petty sessions ; and all the provisions 
of the said Petty Sessions Acts respectively as to making appeals and as to executing 
the orders made on appeal, or the original orders where the appeals shall not be duly 
prosecuted, shall also apply to any appeal or like order to be made under the provisions 
of this Act. 
16. The expense of executing this Act shall be borne, in the city of London and the 
liberties thereof, out of the consolidated rates raised by the commissioners of sewers of 
the city of London and the liberties thereof, and in the rest of the metropolis out of any 
rates or funds applicable to the purposes of the Act for the better local management of 
the metropolis, and in counties out of the county rate, and in boroughs out of the 
borough fund, or out of the rogue money in counties in Scotland. 
17. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to affect the power of proceeding by 
indictment, or to take away any other remedy against any offender under this Act. 
18. In the construction of this Act the words “ articles of food or drink ” shall (if not 
inconsistent with the context or subject matter) include not only all alimentary sub¬ 
stances, whether solids or liquids, but also all eatables or drinkables whatsoever not 
being medical drugs or articles usually taken or sold as medicines, but this Act shall 
not be construed so as to affect the ordinary reduction of the strength of foreign, 
British, or colonial spirits by persons licensed and paying duties under the excise. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
The Pocket Guide to the British Pharmacopceia ; being an Explanatory Classifica¬ 
tion of its Drugs, Preparations, and Compounds; all essentials being comprised in a 
form and size adapted to the Practitioner’s note-book. London : Robert Hardwicke, 
192, Piccadilly. 1869. 
Remarks on Etherized Cod-Liter Oil. By Balthazar W. Foster, M.D., etc. 
London: M‘Gowan and Danks, Steam Printers. 1869. (Reprinted from the ‘Medi¬ 
cal Press and Circular ’). 
Lessons in Elementary Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic. By Henry E. Roscoe, 
B.A., F.R.S., etc. New Edition. London : Macmillan and Co. 1869. (From the 
publishers.) 
Chemical Labels, according to the latest System of Nomenclature. Compiled by 
Henry Mathews, F.C.S., and C. W. Quin. Published by H. K. Lewis, 136, Gower 
Street. (From the compilers.) 
The State of the Medical Profession in Great Britain and Ireland. By 
William Dale, M.D., etc. Dublin : Fannin and Co. London : Longmans. 1869. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
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. 
Pharmaceutical Ethics .—To the Editors of the Pharmaceutical Journal.—Gentlemen, 
*—If you can find space for the insertion of this letter, I will redeem my promise of last 
