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•understood, that the Committee will only add that it constitutes a local advantage of no 
small importance to the pupils of the chemists of Leeds. The Committee trust that few of 
our junior associates will allow their apprenticeships to elapse without availing them¬ 
selves of the opportunity of thus acquiring a sound and systematic knowledge of the 
science of chemistry. 
Mr. E. Thompson has kindl} r agreed to deliver a course of Lectures on Materia 
Medica; of which a further announcement will be made when the arrangements are 
completed. 
The preceding recapitulation will show that the practical and useful aims of the 
Association have been steadily kept in view. It has been sought, through the monthly 
meetings, and by means of mutual instruction, to keep abreast with the progress of im¬ 
provement and discovery in our own profession. The supply of enlarged means of 
education to our younger friends has been solicitously cared for, and a beginning has 
been made, which the Committee trust will prove a vantage ground secured for future 
effort. If the interest of our members and associates can be sustained, and a cordial 
spirit of co-operation secured, the Association has a future before it of great interest and 
extended usefulness. In addition to those objects, the advantage of possessing an organi¬ 
zation to enable us to give due consideration to events passing around us, and particu¬ 
larly to legislation proposed or attempted, in which our interests are implicated, has 
been illustrated by the experience of the past year. Looking to the future, all the 
reasons and motives which led to the formation of this Association exist in full force. 
The forthcoming British Pharmacopoeia, the publication of which cannot be much 
further delayed, will afford material for elucidation and discussions at our monthly 
meetings. We believe that chemists in other leading provincial towns will increasingly 
feel bound to maintain similar organizations for the purpose of friendly union, and to 
enable them to contribute more effectively to those stores of professional knowledge 
which it is both the duty and interest of each one of us to preserve and increase. We 
shall all agree with the dictum of the great master of philosophy, Lord Bacon, that 
“ every man is a debtor to his profession, from the which, as men do of course seek to 
receive countenance and profit, so ought they to endeavour of themselves, by way of 
amends, to be a help and ornament thereuuto.” 
The following resolutions were also adopted :— 
44 That the Report be adopted and printed, and a copy sent to each member and 
associate.” 
“ That Wednesday be substituted for Monday, as the day for holding the monthly 
meetings.” 
The Officers elected for the ensuing session are—President, Thomas Harvey, Esq.; 
Secretary, Mr. E. Yewdall; Treasurer, J. Land, Esq.; Librarian, Mr. Abbott; Com 
mittee, Messrs. E. Thompson, R. Beynolds, K. M. Atkinson, E. Brown, G. Reinhardt, 
Geo. Ward ; Messrs. Haigh and Stead, auditors. 
ORIGINAL AND EXTRACTED ARTICLES. 
NEW AMERICAN REMEDIES. 
BY PROFESSOR BENTLEY, F.L.S., M.R.C.S. ENG., HONORARY FELLOW OF 
KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON. 
(Continued from p. 105.) 
XIII. BAPTISIA TIN CTO RI A, R. BR 0 WN .—WILD INDIGO. 
History.— The root, rhizome, stem, and leaves of this plant, have been long 
and much used in North America, in the form of gargle, decoction, poultice, 
etc., for their antiseptic properties. They have also been regarded as emetic 
and cathartic in large doses, and stimulant and somewhat astringent in small 
doses.* Dr. Stevens, of Ceres, Pennsylvania, and others, have found a decoc- 
* Barton, p. 257. 
