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LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Patent Laws question, and had been a member of the Royal Commission appointed 
to inquire into their working, his Lordship should he asked to present the petition 
to the House of Commons, and support the prayer thereof. 
A brief discussion took place upon the suggestion, and it was ultimately arranged 
that the presenting the petition to Parliament should be left to the Committee to de¬ 
cide. 
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was unanimously agreed to,’ and the proceedings 
terminated. 
PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The meeting of the Chemists’ Association was convened at the Royal Institution on 
the 28th of September last, for the purpose of receiving the Annual Report of the Council 
and Treasurer, to elect officers, and transact other business. 
The President, A. Redford, Esq., occupied the chair. 
The Hon. Secretary, Mr. Martin Murphy, read the following Annual Report of the 
Council:—■ 
The Chemists’ Association still lives, and continues to increase in numbers and in use¬ 
fulness with growing years. Your Council, as guardian of its welfare, rejoices in being 
able to report at the close of the sixteenth year of its existence, the prosperous state of 
the Association. The well-sustained interest of its proceedings indicates an increasing 
power, which promises to it a long life of usefulness—a fact that relieves your Council 
of any anxiety for the future. 
Your Council regrets to have occasion for informing you, that since the last annual 
meeting, the Association has lost one of its most respected honorary members, Joseph 
Dickinson, M.D., F.R.S., etc., lately deceased. Your Council takes this opportunity of 
recording its high sense of the valuable services rendered by the late Dr. Dickinson to 
the Association during the early years of its existence. 
During the session, eighteen new members joined the Association; seven withdrawals 
have been recorded in the same period, so that the Society is strengthened by an in¬ 
crease of eleven members. The attendance has been on a par with that of former sessions. 
The subjects discussed at the general meetings have been of a character calculated to 
advance the knowledge of the members in those sciences which the Association avowedly 
desires to cultivate. 
In matters affecting the science and practice of pharmacy, your Council has not failed 
to use its best endeavours for their advancement. On the question of improved legisla¬ 
tion for regulating the sale of drugs, your Council united with the Pharmaceutical 
Society of Great Britain to influence the Parliament in favour of the passing of Sir 
Fitzroy Kelly’s Bill into Law ; and although for the present those efforts have not had 
the desired success, yet hopes are entertained that they may tend to accelerate this very 
desirable legislation. Your Council embraced the opportunity to depute Messrs. H. S. 
Evans, F.C.S., and J. B. Edwards, Ph.D., to represent the Association at the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Conference lately held in Birmingham. 
Adopting the precedent of former sessions, your Council organized a conversazione, 
which was held about the usual time, and the results were very satisfactory. 
The Library has been placed at the Royal Institution, Mr. Turner, the Curator, having 
undertaken tie duties of Librarian. It is hoped the change will be convenient to the 
members. The increase of the Library induced your Council to provide a new case for 
its reception; and the Library and Museum Committee has devoted a good deal of 
attention to the arrangement of the books, by which the duties of the Librarian w'ill be 
simplified, and the members will be readily furnished with any volumes required. This 
work was much needed; and, although your Sub-Committee has not yet fully com¬ 
pleted its task, your Council hopes that it will be accomplished during the coming 
session. 
The donations to the Library and Museum have been very valuable. Your Council 
desires to mention especially a model dispensing counter , presented by Joseph Ince, Esq., 
of London, to which Dr. Edwards has added the miscellaneous fittings,—the whole 
