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again ; and should the same liberal support be given by the members and associates 
during the current year, the Committee will be in a position to enhance the value of the 
Library. The President then called upon the Secretary to read the Report. 
Report. —The Committee of the Leeds Clu mists’ Association have much pleasure in 
presenting their Report to the first Anniversary of the Society. The Association was 
organized at a Meeting held at the Town Hall, .December 22nd, 18G2. The number of 
Members enrolled at this and subsequent meetings was fifty-three, and of Associates 
fifty-six. 
The transactions of the Association at its monthly meetings have been of a varied 
and interesting character. Papers or Lectures, illustrated by specimens and experi¬ 
ments, have been read, as under:— 
Feb. 9, Mr. Ward, “ On the Petroleum Oils of North America.” Feb. 9, Mr. Reynolds, 
“Remarks upon a proposed new Test for Methylic Alcohol.” March 9, Mr. E. Thomp¬ 
son, “On a Cheap and Accurate Chemical Balance.” March 9, Mr. Abbott, “Ou the 
Starch Granules, with illustrations by the Microscope.” April 15, Mr. R. M. Atkinson, 
“On Acetic Acid.” April 15, Mr. E. Yewdall, “On the Saits of Iron, and more espe¬ 
cially on the Tincture of the Sesquichloride.” 
At the last ordinary meeting for the season, held May 21st, two subjects were intro¬ 
duced for discussion, viz. “Provincial examinations for the Minor diploma of the 
Pharmaceutical Society,” and “ The necessity of organized scientific research by means of 
division of labour.” The monthly meetings have also afforded the opportunity of bring¬ 
ing under notice and inspection, new or rare specimens of Materia Medica, and various 
objects of novelty and practical interest. 
A Special Meeting of the Association was held on the 8th of June last, at which a 
petition was adopted against “ The Poisoned Grain Bill,” and another petition in favour 
of the Bill then before the House of Commons, for introducing the metrical system of 
weights and measures. A memorial was also directed to be sent to the National Medical 
Council, in favour of the adoption of the metrical weights and measures of the new 
British Pharmacopoeia. Letters were addressed, on behalf of the Association, to the 
Members for the Borough, on the subject of “The Poisoned Grain Bill;” and the 
Committee have pleasure in recording that the Bill eventually passed without those 
clauses which the Association had pointed out as specially objectionable. 
In March last the Committee engaged a room at Mr. Haigh’s Baths, 8, Cookridge 
Street, for the purpose of a Library and Committee room. The Council of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society very liberally presented the Association with a complete set of the 
‘Pharmaceutical Journal.’ Valuable donations of books have also been received from 
several members of the Association. The following periodicals are taken in:—‘ The 
Chemical News,’ ‘The Journal of the Chemical Society,’ ‘The Technologist,’ ‘The Intel¬ 
lectual Observer,’ ‘Bentham's Handbook of British Flora,’ ‘The Chemist and Druggist,’ 
and ‘Pharmaceutical Journal.’ 
Since the Library was opened fourteen volumes and several periodicals have been 
borrowed, chiefly by a small number of the associates. The Committee are anxious 
that the importance and utilily of the Library should be adequately appreciated both 
by the members and associates. They trust the liberality of the former will continue 
to add to its store, and that the latter will freely avail themselves of it for study and 
reference. The series of the ‘Pharmaceutical Journal’ is a library in itself. 
The Committee arranged with Mr. H. Denny, A.L.S., for a course of Eight Lectures 
on Structural and Physiological Botany, which were delivered weekly, commencing on 
Monday, April 28th, in a room at 13, Briggate, lent for the purpose by Messrs. Harvey 
and Reynolds. Twenty-six tickets were taken for this course, the average attendance 
being of course somewhat less. The President offered ‘ Bentley’s Manual of Botany’ as 
a prize to the associate who should pass the best examinations upon the subject of the 
lectures at the close of the course. There were two competitors, betwixt whom the 
precedence was assigned by Mr. Denny to Mr. Freshfield Reynolds. As the answers of 
the second competitor, Mr. Aldridge, were very creditable to him, Mr. R. Reynolds, F.C.S., 
has kindly supplied ‘Lindley’s School Botany’as a second prize. These volumes are 
now ready for presentation to the candidates. 
The Committee have recently issued a circular to the members and associates, apprising 
them of the commencement for the coming session of Mr. Ward’s Lectures on Chemistry, 
at the Mechanics’ Institution. The value and importance of this course are so w r eli 
