ON PERCOLATION. 
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mutilated in tlie House of Commons, and that in its emasculated condition it 
was impotent to effect the large public benefit hoped for by its designer. We 
have already declared that it is now expedient to make a renewed application 
to Parliament, and if we are to succeed, we must go with a liberal and unselfish 
measure. 
Something has been said relative to injustice to existing members. This 
cannot apply to the Founders, for they began by expressing their wish to 
include the entire body of chemists; it cannot apply to members admitted them¬ 
selves by election, for the measure of grace which the} r have availed of they 
would scarcely refuse to others; whilst the liberal tone of those speakers at 
the Special Meeting who are members by examination, (Mr. Giles, Mr. Yizer, 
Mr. Breton, and others), as well as the fact of the requisition having been 
signed by, I believe, nearly eighty examined men, is, I take it, a fair indication 
of the feeling entertained by these gentlemen. 
In conclusion, I would earnestly appeal to the members of every class to 
join hand in hand in promoting a large, friendly, and comprehensive measure, 
sincerely convinced that with such action a great public good, as well as a great 
professional advantage, may probably be secured, and the Pharmaceutical So¬ 
ciety assume larger proportions as a National Institution. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
30, Bucklersbury, London , April 20 th, 1864. B. B. ORRIDC4E. 
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 
TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Sir,—As my attention has been directed to either an error in the report of 
my remarks at our late Pharmaceutical Meeting, or I introduced the word 
“ local” unintentionally when I alluded to the proceedings of the meeting at 
Birmingham, and as I see that Mr. Buott has referred to it in a letter pub¬ 
lished in the last number of the 4 Chemist and Druggist,’ I think it but justice 
to Mr. Whittles, the local Secretary of the United Society at Birmingham, to 
say that my observations were not intended to apply at all to him, but to Mr. 
Buott, the general Secretary of the Society, whose remarks I still think were 
calculated to excite a feeling of opposition to the Pharmaceutical Society, in 
the minds of those present, whether belonging or not to the United Society, 
which he there represented. I regret as much as himself the “undignified” 
proceedings of the meeting, whereby all calm and dispassionate discussion was 
entirely prevented. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, 
E. Holliee. 
Market Place, Dudley, April 20, 1846. 
ON PERCOLATION. 
TO THE EDITORS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Gentlemen,—I think a few words in reply to Dr. Redwood’s observations 
on the process of percolation is called for, to prevent chemists from supposing 
that this process is a very difficult and uncertain one. Dr. Redwood says that 
the process only succeeds well when performed by those who make it their 
study, and practise it con amove. I at one time held the same opinion, but 
since then I have found it is quite practicable to reduce it into a rule ; for 
each preparation can be manipulated with,—just as each separate formula for 
a box of pills. I hold that a percolator can be managed with as great ease 
as a pestle and mortar, and one requires no longer time to learn how to use 
than the other. It seems a great pity that a process which yields so much 
