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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
Society bad a fund available, must be a matter of scarcely less pleasure to those 
who have contributed to that fund than of thankfulness to those who receive its 
benefits. 
We are pleased to be able to add that a home for two of the three little girls 
has been found in the institution called King Edward’s School. One little girl 
is yet unprovided for. 
A combination of circumstances, moreover, has, in fact, on this occasion, 
doubled the good which the Council contemplated in voting the grant. The 
orphan Bentley had previously been a candidate for admission to the Asylum at 
Slough ; he had polled only sixty votes on the first election, and was coming to 
the second with a very small addition, hopeless of success. There was on the 
list of candidates another orphan, Ralph S. Walton, left unprovided for by his 
father, a late member of our Society, and his election seemed as far off as 
Bentley’s, by the usual course. The purchase of one child’s admission left the 
votes promised to him available for the other; and we are sure of the cordial 
sympathy of our readers when we inform them, that the liberality shown by the 
Council in the former case elicited such influential support from leading voters, 
more especially from the member of the legal profession before referred to, that 
the election of our second candidate was also secured. 
The importance of sustaining the Council in their desire to render the re¬ 
sources of the Benevolent Fund promptly available for fit recipients, will, we 
are sure, be generally felt, after the instances here cited. With the view of 
augmenting the Fund, one of the members of our Society has offered to pledge 
himself to collect five guineas yearly for three ensuing years, other mem¬ 
bers ivill do the same. He has also handed in the names of several to whom he 
has spoken on the subject, who are willing to rank among these 200 workers. 
At his request we make public this challenge, and invite those willing to co¬ 
operate to communicate with the Secretary. 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, 5th July, 1865, 
Present—Messrs. Bird, Bottle, Davenport, Deane, George Edwards, Evans, Hanburv, 
Hills, Morson, Orridge, Sandford, and Squire. 
The following were elected 
MEMBERS. 
Barret, Edward Louis.London. 
Cameron, William.Kelso, N. B. 
Davies, Moses Prosser.Tenby. 
Linford, John Samuel .Canterbury. 
The following having paid their arrears were restored to 
MEMBERSHIP. 
Crocker, Edwin .London. 
Gerrard, Joseph.Etruria. 
Rawle, William ....Melbourne. 
Watson, Richard Thomas .Jarrow. 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
. A grant of one hundred guineas was voted for the purpose of purchasing an admis ¬ 
sion for one of the orphan children of the late William Bentley, of Bethnal Green, mem- 
ocr of the Society, into one of the Orphan Asylums. 
