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C ONTENTS. 
SECOND SERIES, VOL. XI.—1869-70. 
No. I. 
Prevention of the Misuse of Poisons, 1.—The Register, 3.—The Pharmacy Act Amend¬ 
ment Bill, 4.—The Adulteration of Food and Drugs Bill, 4.—Reprint of the British 
Pharmacopoeia, 4.—Munificent Endowment of a School for the Study of Practical 
Chemistry, 5.—The Faraday Lectureship in the Chemical Society, 5.—Proposed 
National Faraday Memorial, 6.—The Art of Writing Precis. Mr. Joseph Ince, 7. 
Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society : Meeting of the Council, 9.—List of 
Members, Associates, and Apprentices (continued), 11.—List of Local Secretaries, 
15.—Regulations of the Board of Examiners, confirmed and adooted by the Coun¬ 
cil, 17. 
Meeting at Edinburgh: On the Alkaloids contained in the Wood of the Bebeeru or 
Greenheart Tree, Nectandra Rodicei. Drs. Maclagan and Gamgee, 19.—Annual 
Meeting, 21.—Dinner and Testimonial to Mr. John Maekay, 23. 
Provincial Transactions: Liverpool Chemists’ Association, 25.—Nottingham and 
Nottinghamshire Chemists’ Association, 27.— Sunderland Chemists’ Association, 29. 
Original and Extracted Articles .- The French and English Systems of Money-Weights 
and Measures, 29.—A New Plaster-spreading Apparatus (with cut). Mr. W. 
Martindale, 33.—Note on the so-called Soluble Peroxide of Iron. Walter G. 
Smith, M.D., 34.—Note on Linimentum Potassii Iodidi c. Sapone, 35.—Australian 
Leeches, 36.—Notes and Abstracts in Chemistry and Pharmacy. C. H. Wood, 
F.C.S., 36.—Apomorphia, a New Base derived from Morphia, 40.—The Patent 
Medicine Stamp, etc., 41.—Poisoning by Substitution of Cyanide of Potassium for 
Carbonate of Ammonia, 42.—Poisoning by Substitution of Strychnia for Morphia, 
44.—Poisoning by Substitution of Strychnia for Sugar, 45.—Poisoning by Bella¬ 
donna, 45.—Artificial Champagne, 46.— Obituary: Richard Graves, 47.— Boohs 
Received , 47.— Correspondence, 47. 
No. II. 
The Designation of Medicines and the Use of Secret Remedies, 49.—’The Medical 
Council, 51.—Parliamentary, 52.—The British Pharmaceutical Conference, 53. 
Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Society: Meeting of the Council, 54.—List of 
Members, Associates, and Apprentices (continued) , 55. 
Provincial Transactions: Aberdeen Association of Assistant Chemists and Druggists, 
60. 
Original and Extracted Articles: On the Value of Precis as applied to “Provincial 
Transactions,” 60.—Apparatus for Preparing Nitrous Oxide Gas. Mr. Porter 
