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LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Apologizing for having kept you so long, I must thank you for the patience you have 
accorded to my crude remarks. 
LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Third Annual Meeting was held on the evening of October 11,18G5, in the library 
of the Philosophical Society,—the President, Mr. Haigh, in the chair. 
The thanks of the Association were voted to the Council of the Pharmaceutical So¬ 
ciety, to Messrs. Barron, Harvey and Co., and Messrs. Smith, Beck, and Beck, for contri¬ 
butions to the library. Messrs. Cordingley and Russell were elected Associates. 
The Secretary, Mr. Yewdall, read the following Annual Report of the Committee. 
In presenting the third Annual Report, the Committee refer with pleasure to the pre¬ 
sent position of the Society. During the past session, papers or lectures have been read 
as follows :—1864, October 19th, “Annual Meeting;” November 16th, “ The President’s 
Address November 16 th, “On Liq. Ferri Perchlor., B.P.,” by the Secretary; December 
14th, “On Volumetric Analysis,” by R. Parkinson, Ph.D., of 'Bradford. 1865. January 
11th, “On Vitality, or the Correlation of Physical and Vital Phenomena,” by Dr. 
Allbutt; February 8th, “Review of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States,” by Mr. 
E. Thompson ; February 8th, “ Microscopic Illustrations of the Alkaloids of Opium,” by 
Mr. Rimmington, of Bradford; March 8th, “Microscopic Objects illustrated by the 
Oxycalcium Light,” by Messrs. Abbott and Scorah ; April 5th, « On Water,” by Mr. 
Heathfield, F.R.G.S., of London. 
Amongst these varied and interesting papers are contributions by gentlemen not im¬ 
mediately connected with our Society, an evidence of the interest taken in the progress 
of our Association by those favourable to such Institutions. 
Through the kindness of the President and Council of the Philosophical Society, the 
Committee arranged to hold the monthly meetings >n the library of the Philosophical 
Hall,—a boon much appreciated. The continued circulation of the books and periodicals 
proves the great utility of the library, to which has been added during the year the fol¬ 
lowing valuable works :—Squire’s ‘ Companion to the British Pharmacopoeia,’ 2nd edi¬ 
tion ; Barber’s 4 British and London Pharmacopoeias Compared,’ Haselden’s 4 Notes on 
the B. P.,’ Church’s 4 Decompositions of the B. P.,’ Fresenius’s‘Qualitative Analysis,’ 
Noad’s ‘Qualitative Analysis,’ 4 A Treatise on the Constitution, proper use, and capa¬ 
bilities of Smith, Beck, and Beck’s Achromatic Microscopes;’ together with the follow- 
ing periodicals, 4 Pharmaceutical Journal,’ ‘Chemist and Druggist,’ 4 Technologist,’ 4 In¬ 
tellectual Observer,’ and ‘Chemical News.’ 
The Committee regret that the session has passed over without any lectures upon 
Materia Medica, Pharmacy, or Botany. They are however prepared to arrange for the 
delivery of a course of lectures on any or all of these subjects, providing a sufficient 
number of Associates will express their readiness to attend. 
The Committee requested Mr. Reynolds, F.C.S., and Mr. R. Parkinson, Ph.D., of 
Bradford, to represent this Association at the meeting of the British Pharmaceutical 
Conference, and they have pleasure in stating that these gentlemen kindly undertook 
the office, the former of whom has further promised an account of the doings of the 
Conference, which will no doubt prove interesting to our members. 
Two Bills for regulating the qualifications of chemists and druggists were introduced 
into Parliament last year, and referred to a Select Committee, with a view to the intro¬ 
duction by Government, during the next session of Parliament, of an Act to meet the 
requirements of the public welfare. The evidence brought before the Select Com¬ 
mittee,was strongly in favour of compulsory examination as a test of competency, and 
it is not superfluous to anticipate that in any legislative enactment 'having reference to 
the regulation of the trade, compulsory examination will be adopted. 
It is obvious therefore that the Association deserves and should have the increased 
support of the trade as a means to an end whereby the Associates may obtain that in¬ 
formation not always to be had in a private undertaking. 
The Treasurer’s account was then presented, and was as follows:— 
