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glacl to have a public expression of opinion as to the object of his very excellent 
scheme. 
So admirable is the object of the portrait fund, that it would meet with my 
unexceptionable concurrence did I not feel that the Benevolent Fund possesses 
a paramount claim on the members of the Society, and that the necessities of 
our less fortunate members in reduced circumstances, their widows and their 
orphan children, rise up in full force to demand that, as the Pharmaceutical 
Society has been so far prospered as an Institution, the Benevolent Fund, which 
from the first has occupied a prominent and collateral position in connection 
with it, should not be allowed to remain in its present unfinished condition, 
but that an effort to raise the amount at once to £10,000 should be seriously 
entertained, and, if possible, carried out, as a matter of duty no less than of sin¬ 
cere desire. 
Every member would desire a portrait of Mr. Bell, and equally so all must 
wish to help the Benevolent Fund; and though to do the one and not leave the 
other undone may be very desirable, yet, if depending on two distinct contribu¬ 
tions , the ability to perform may not, in many instances, go hand-in-hand with 
the will to do, while every well-wisher of the Society would regret that any 
member had been prevented assisting the one in his anxiety to obtain the 
I would therefore venture to propose that an invitation should be advertised 
for donations to the Benevolent Fund, with the additional inducement of a por¬ 
trait of a certain value to be given to donors of ten guineas, five guineas, three 
guineas, and two guineas, or higher or lower as may be decided on. X cannot 
but think that such a proposal, accompanying a strong appeal on behalf of the 
completion of the fund, will meet with a sympathetic and satisfactory response, 
_ w ill be an object which would have had the entire approval of the late Mr. 
Bell, and may therefore be very pleasantly associated,—will be a means of 
enabling a much larger number of our members to obtain a double gratification, 
when in many instances they would shrink from a twofold contribution,—and 
will in all probability prove the best medium for raising the balance of the 
£10,000, and thus placing the fund in a satisfactory and more settled position. 
If this could be accomplished by simultaneous meetings throughout the country, 
so much the better, as it would thereby be completed more speedily, and produce 
a happy effect, perhaps, upon us who are members of the Society, as well as 
upon those who still remain separated from it. In addition to this, I have no 
doubt but that, in the large circle of acquaintance of the late Mr. Bell un¬ 
connected with pharmacy, many might desire to subscribe for his portrait, espe¬ 
cially were it known that the proceeds were to be devoted to a benevolent 
Should this letter at all meet your approval, its insertion in the Journal will 
probably draw forth a more matured expression of opinion on the subject, which 
is the main desire of 
Your very obedient servant, 
London, May 19 th, 186G. Amicus. 
SALE OE CHLORODYNE* 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Perhaps it may interest some of your readers who, like myself, make use of a 
slip label for the sale of chlorodyne in small quantities, to know that the fol¬ 
lowing label can be used and chlorodyne sold without affixing a Government 
* See a note on this subject in our last number, page 580. 
