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EXHIBITION OP OBJECTS RELATING TO PHARMACY. 
The British Pharmaceutical Conference will meet at Nottingham, on Tuesday, 
August 21st, 1866, being the time of the Meeting of the British Association for 
the Advancement of Science. Professor Bentley, F.L.S., etc., is the President 
of the Conference this year. Its proceedings usually extend over portions of 
three days, consisting in the reading and discussion of Papers, containing the 
results of the investigations of professional subjects. 
From experience of the two annual meetings that have been held, in Bath 
and Birmingham respectively, in 1864 and 1865, it is confidently anticipated 
that a large number of chemists will assemble from most parts of the country. 
The central position of Nottingham furnishes another important reason for 
holding the Exhibition at the time and place already named. 
It is desired that the following classes should be represented, viz.:— 
1. Objects representing novelties or improvements in pharmaceutical pro¬ 
cesses, including apparatus and utensils for evaporation, distillation, pulveri¬ 
zation, displacement, filtration, etc. etc. Applications of gas are especially 
desirable. Models or drawings will also be eligible. 
2. Instruments intended for use in chemical investigations, such as apparatus 
for volumetric analysis, spectroscopes, polarizing apparatus for testing the purity 
of essential oils, etc. 
3. Microscopes, microscopic accessories and objects. 
4. Apparatus used with a remedial intention, as galvanic and electro-magnetic 
machines, enemas, etc. 
5. Illustrations of general business fittings, and arrangements for dispensing. 
6. Improved dispensing appliances, as bottles, boxes for pills and powders, 
labels, etc. 
7. Poison bottles, poison labels, etc. Illustrations of precautions against 
mistake, either by dispenser or patient. 
8. Simple or compounded medicines newly introduced, or proposed for use in 
medicine. 
9. Improved preparations for the administration of medicines of established 
reputation. This class would include methods for disguising nauseous remedies 
by means of capsules, also the various coatings of pills, also improved supposi¬ 
tories and pessaries, liquors and other substitutes for alcoholic tinctures. Arti¬ 
ficial mineral waters. 
10. Specimens of drugs or chemicals remarkable for fine quality, or other 
reasons. Specimens in botany, chemistry, etc., illustrating the source of drugs. 
11. Foreign preparations, whether proprietary or otherwise. 
12. Illustrations of adulterations, and the means of detecting them. 
13. Improved dietetic preparations. 
14. Books, either English or foreign, relating to pharmacy or collateral sciences. 
lo. Historical relics, having an interest in connection with pharmacy, or its 
cultivators, as portraits, autographs, etc. etc. 
16. Any improvements in matters usually within the scope of the drug trade, 
or consistent with it, but which are not embraced by previous classes. 
It is proposed that the Exhibition shall be open from Tuesday, August 21st, 
to Saturday, August 25th, inclusive. 
Bi addition to the favourable opportunity for bringing under the notice of che¬ 
mists any improvements connected with their avocation, we would especially point 
out that a Report upon the Exhibition will be prepared by a Special Committee, 
and published in the Proceedings of the British Pharmaceutical Conference. In 
this way extensive publicity, and that of a permanent character, will be attained. 
It may be added that negotiations are now pending with the Local Committee 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which will probably 
result in this Exhibition being opened upon one or more evenings to the nu¬ 
merous and distinguished company who attend the Conversazioni of that body. 
