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LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, Messrs. Chambers 
and F. Mather were elected Associates. 
The Honorary Secretary announced that the President had presented Evans’s 
‘ Modified Examination of the Pharmaceutical Society,’ to the Library. 
Mr. J. L Roberts read the paper of the evening, subject “Matter;” and upon the 
motion of Mr. S. Taylor, seconded by Mr. Abbott, a cordial vote of thanks was given to 
lecturer. 
A special meeting of the members was held in the Library on Wednesday, May 13, 
1809. The President, Mr. Reynolds, in the chair. 
The Honorary Secretary read the circular convening the meeting, and also an 
apology for non-attendance from Mr. Fell. \ 
The President stated that the meeting had been called in consequence of his receiving 
a letter from Mr. Roberts, referring to the report in the Pharmaceutical Journal, respect¬ 
ing the Patent Medicine Licence, he would therefore leave the subject in his hands. 
In introducing the subject Mr. Roberts remarked, that the question of equalizing or 
abolishing the Patent Medicine Licence was to form the subject of a communication to 
the Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society, on the 19th instant; and be thought 
the Members of this Society should anticipate the question, so as to present, by resolu¬ 
tion, their opinion as to the desirability of interfering with the present tariff; he there¬ 
fore proposed “That this Meeting considers the present charge for Patent Medicine 
Licence in boroughs, viz., ten shillings, as being proper and reasonable, and deprecates 
any attempts to alter the same.” 
Mr. S. Taylor seconded the motion. 
Mr. R. M. Atkinson proposed, as an amendment, several clauses of a former petition 
in favour of the Pharmacy Act, including a suggestion that in place of the Patent 
Medicine Licence there should be a Pharmacy Licence at a uniform charge of 20s. per 
annum, which was seconded by Mr. W. H. Rhodes. 
A free discussion took place, in w'hich all present joined. Upon the amendment being 
put, only the mover and seconder voted for it; the original motion being carried with 
only one dissentient. A copy of the resolution was forwarded to the President of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, to be read at the meeting referred to. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Tenth Conversazione of the Association was held at the Royal Institution on 
Thursday evening, April 15th. On this occasion the members were the guests of the 
President, Mr. J. F. Robinson, who generously provided the requisites for the evening’s 
enjoyment. At seven o’clock the company began to arrive, and in a short time many 
ladies and gentlemen were promenading through the suite of rooms which contains 
the Museum of the Royal Institution, in which a large number of objects of interest 
were laid out for inspection. In the Board Room several members of the Liverpool 
Microscopical Association, Messrs. Abraham, Bannister, Davies, Newton, Stewart, and 
Wood, attended with valuable microscopes, and showed to eager observers the circula¬ 
tion of the blood, diatoms, the lovely effects of polarized light, etc. etc. There was 
also a microscope fitted with a rotating glass disk, on which were fifty microphotographs 
of engravings. In this room stereoscopes were also arranged, and several beautiful 
works of art in the precious metals from Messrs. Elkington. By permission of the 
Library and Museum Committee of the Liverpool corporation, Mr. T. J. Moore, the 
curator, exhibited the following specimens of natural history recently added to the Free 
Public Museum :—Vertebrae and ribs of a huge fin whale, called Steypireydr by the Ice¬ 
landers (Balcenoptera Sibbaldii , Gray), one of the largest and swiftest whales known, 
presented by Mr. Henry Bird, who recently read a paper before the Association, on the 
history and useful products of this creature ; a group of the new species of birds of 
paradise (Semeioptera Wa/lacci), discovered bv Mr. Alfred R. Wallace, at Batchian, one 
of the Mollucca Islands ; specimens of the musk deer of Thibet, and of the musk rat of 
North America ; and a large specimen of brain coral, of the genus Meandrina, brought 
from Annesley Bay. 
