MANCHESTER CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 2?9 
Twelve Lectures on Botany, by Professor Williamson, F.R.S.; twenty-eight entries. 
Twenty Lessons in Latin, by J. Smith, Esq., B.A.; forty-nine entries. 
“Five papers by members have been read at the monthly meetings, and a conversa¬ 
zione and exhibition of objects of interest was held in the Memorial Hall, on the even¬ 
ing of Tuesday, April 28ih. 
“Valuable donations of Materia Medica specimens have been received from Messrs. 
Evans and Lescher, Messrs. Hodgkinson, Stead, and Treacher, and Messrs. Southall, 
Son, and Dymoud ; and the ‘Pharmaceutical Journal’ has been forwarded to us monthly 
from the Society. 
“ An endeavour to induce greater uniformity in dispensing charges has been made 
with considerable success, and this example has been followed in many important towns. 
“Your Association now numbers 280 Members and Associates. 
“The Treasurer’s statement of accounts will be found highly satisfactory. Your 
Council was anxious to keep the expenditure of the Association as low as possible 
during the first year; and, with this object in view, somewhat meagre accommodation 
was afforded to the monthly meetings. The result, however, is a balance in hand of 
£90. 17s. 2\d. ; thus providing increased means of usefulness for the future, and 
rendering some further outlay for rooms and other advantages justifiable and safe. 
“If no other result had been obtained than establishing in the North of England a 
provision for the proper education of pharmaceutical students, your Association would 
have had just ground for congratulation at the end of this, the first session of its exist¬ 
ence. Beyond this, it is fairly entitled to assume that, by its means, mutual good 
understanding and good will have been promoted, much valuable information has been 
conveyed, and a foundation laid upon which it is hoped eventually to raise an institu¬ 
tion commensurate with the improved position and grave responsibilities of the phar¬ 
maceutical body. 
“In conclusion, your Council would most urgently impress upon you the necessity 
for individual exertion to maintain and add to the usefulness of your Association, the 
objects of which, as set forth in your first rule, are ‘to provide for the better education 
of assistants and apprentices, the mutual improvement of members, the general advance¬ 
ment of the interests of the trade, and the formation of a library, a museum, and a 
school of pharmacy for Manchester, and surrounding district.’ It is in the power of 
every member to help forward one or more of these objects, either by the assistance 
and encouragement he may give to those in his employ, by the additions he can make 
to the common store of pharmaceutical knowledge in the contribution of papers for the 
monthly meetings, or by the donation of books or specimens for the Library and 
Museum.” 
The Treasurer in Account with the Manchester Chemists and Druggists' Association. 
November 9, 1868. 
Dr. £. s. d. 
To Balance of Fund for Preliminary 
Expenses. 1 16 6 
„ Casli from Mr. Lynche’s Executors 8 10 8 
„ Bank Interest . 0 19 
,, Donation from Hull Association... 0 10 0 
„ Membership Fees. 106 0 0 
„ Lecture Fees. 64 15 6 
£181 14 5 
Cr. £. s. d. 
By Cash for Stationery, Stamps, Print¬ 
ing, and Advertising. 29 8 8^ 
„ Owens College Fees . 23 12 6 
„ Keighley, Lea, and Co. 8 8 0 
„ A. Somers, Esq. . 18 18 0 
,, J. S. Smith, Esq. 10 10 0 
„ Balance in hand . 4 18^ 
„ Balance in Bank . 86 15 6 
£181 14 5 
„ Balance brought forward 
90 17 2* 
Examined and found correct, 
JOHN B. BATEMAN,) 
JOHN STANDRING, / 
Auditors' 
The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the Report, said he thought the members 
had reason to be well satisfied with the statements laid before them Some risk had 
been incurred in providing courses of lectures, but the result proved that the number of 
students who would attend had been rightly estimated, and although the fees charged had 
been exceedingly small, they had been nearly sufficient to pay the expenses, the Associa¬ 
tion having had to provide only a few pounds from its funds. He hoped the members would 
approve the course which the Council had adopted in allying themselves with Owens 
