PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
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MINOR (as Chemists and Druggists). 
Brown, John, Newcastle-on-Tyne. *Linton, Ralph Tait, Edinburgh. 
Ellwood, Michael John, Newcastle-on-Tyne. # M‘Vea, Anthony, Glasgow. 
REGISTERED APPRENTICE. 
Riddle, William Routledge, Hexham. 
MODIFIED EXAMINATION. 
The following seven candidates passed, and were duly registered as 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
Adam, Thomas, Edinburgh. 
Beatt, David, Montrose. 
Hales, Thomas Meredith, Warrington. 
Hutton, Thomas, Linlithgow. 
Ritson, James Chapman, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Simpson, John, Glasgow. 
Swift, Charles Henry, Rochdale. 
PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
Wednesday , May bth, 1869. 
MR. H. SUGDEN EVANS, VICE-PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 
were announced as follows, and the thanks of the Meeting given to the respec¬ 
tive donors:— 
Le Regne Animal, par Cuvier, 4 vols., 1817: from Mr. W. Ashton. Report of Patients 
treated in St. Thomas’s Hospital from 1861 to 1865 : from the Hospital. Proceedings 
of the American Pharmaceutical Association for 1868 : from the Association. Com¬ 
panion to the Pharmacopoeia, 7th edition: from Mr. Squire. A specimen of camphor 
oil from Formosa: from Messrs. Hodgkinson, King, and Co. Specimens of jalap 
grown in an open border in King’s College Botanic Garden, Dublin, in 1868, to illus¬ 
trate the paper read before this Society by Dr. Smith : presented by Prof. A. Smith. 
A set of brass metric decimal weights, as used in the pharmacies of France and other 
countries ; a set of iron metric weights, as used by grdbers ; a draper’s metre measure ; 
a specimen of the jointed metre measures used by carpenters; a 10-metre measuring 
tape ; a set of metric pewter measures, from the double litre to the centilitre ; a set of 
wooden metric measures for seeds, etc., from a decalitre to a decilitre: medicine bottles 
for holding metric decimal quantities ; several French prescriptions, illustrating the use 
of metric decimal weights ; sets of the copper decimal coins of France and Italy. (The 
figures on them represent their value in centimes and their weight in grammes. Their 
diameter and thickness of edge are parts of a metre): presented by Prof. Attfield. Model 
of a cubic decimetre; a wood metre and yard for educational purposes ; questions on 
the school metre; an American coin, 5 cents in value, 5 grammes in weight, 2 centi¬ 
metres in diameter, 1 millimetre thick: Presented by J. Yates, Esq., F.R.S. 
METRICAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
The adjourned debate on Dr. Redwood’s paper, which was read at the pre¬ 
ceding meeting, on the above subject, was opened by 
Air. Carteigiie, who said that he did not agree with Prof. Redwood in his 
notion of bending, in some measure, the French system so as to suit ours. The 
great objection to the bending of any system was that, when once the real bend 
was introduced, it was impossible for the student to be aware, when he learnt 
the nature of that bend, of the origin of it, and of the peculiar circumstances 
under which it was brought about. His fear was that if such a proposal were 
carried out, the tetram, which would be four grams, and which would repre- 
* Passed in honours; eligible to compete for the Prize of Books, 
