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LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The following gentlemen were declared to be Auditors for the ensuing year :— 
Barron, Frederick, 2, Bush Lane. 
Westwood, Robert, 16, Newgate Street. 
Mackey, John Brunt, 15, Bouverie Street. 
M‘Culloch, William, 5, Coleman Street. 
Breton, Walter, GG, Cannon Street. 
Mr. Kent moved and Mr. Watts seconded a vote of thanks to the Council, for the 
valuable services they had given to the Society. 
The motion was carried unanimously. 
The President, on behalf of himself and the Council generally, returned thanks, and 
he assured the meeting that so far as the Council were concerned he felt satisfied that 
they might rely on them to do all they could to promote the objects of the Institution. 
What they had done they had done with pleasure, and he hoped it had been productive 
of some success. 
Mr. Kent said that as their Secretary (Mr. Bremridge) so efficiently discharged his 
duty, they ought not to separate without an expression of their opinion, and he accord¬ 
ingly moved the thanks of the meeting to Mr. Bremridge for the highly satisfactory 
manner in which he discharged his duties. 
Mr. Watts seconded the motion. 
The President assured the meeting that Mr. Bremridge deserved all the thanks they 
could give him, and he hoped the motion would be carried by acclamation. 
The motion was carried unanimously. 
Mr. Bremridge cordially thanked the meeting for their kind expression and approval 
of his conduct, and he assured them that his greatest pleasure was to do everything he 
could that would conduce in any way towards promoting the interests of the Society. 
The meeting then separated. 
PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The thirteenth general meeting of this body was held on the 12th of April. 
Donations of the Pharmaceutical Journal, from the Society, and of ‘A New System of 
Chemical Nomenclature,’ by Professor Hamilton, F.C.S., were announced by the 
Secretary, and the thanks of the meeting voted to the donors. 
Mr. Peter a Greenough, jun., of St. Helen’s, was duly elected a member of the Asso¬ 
ciation. 
Mr. Martin Murphy called the attention of the members to the work of Professor 
Hamilton, presented to the library. He stated that he had but a brief glance at the 
‘ New System ’ since he entered the room, but brief as it was, it satisfied him that Pro¬ 
fessor Hamilton had constructed his system on an order differing almost in its entirety 
from any yet proposed. The only one that might, in some remote degree, compare with 
it was that of Laurent; and although lie thought Professor Hamilton’s exposition of 
terms, implying the composition of chemical substances, was very ingenious and indica¬ 
tive of much consideration, yet, like Laurent’s, he feared the new system would not ob¬ 
tain, chiefly because the words and terms introduced were so very different from any¬ 
thing at present encountered in the literature of chemistry. Mr. W. H. Colby said that, 
in his opinion, Professor Hamilton adopted the plan analogous to that of Gray, in his 
‘ Memoria Technica,’ and other works of that type. The Vice-President felt satisfied, 
although he could not debate the question, not having read the work, that coming from 
Professor Plamilton the ‘New System of Chemical Nomenclature’ would be found 
worthy of the Professor’s well-known ability. 
Mr. Dutton drew attention to the extract of stramonium, and the great disparity that 
existed between the new and older preparations of this medicine, the new one being very 
much more active. He was induced to mention the subject so as to put members oil 
their guard when compounding prescriptions in which this medicine was ordered. 
