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THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, November 3rd, 1869, 
MR. H. SUGDEN EVANS, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
Present—Messrs. Abraham, Bottle, Bourdas, Carteighe, Edwards, Haselden, Hills, 
luce, Mackay, Morson, Randall, Sandford, Savage, Stoddart, and Williams. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
The President reported that he had conveyed the thanks of this Society to the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society of Austria, as expressed in resolution of the Council, and that he 
had received the following reply from the Secretary:— 
“ Himmelpfortgasse 17, Vienna, October 25, 1869. 
“ President H. Sugden Evans, London. 
“ Dearest and honoured Sir,—Excuse, please, my late answer to your kind letter of 
October 8 ; but I assure you I had so much to do that I was not able to answer 
earlier. First of all I must tell you, dear Sir, that your letter gave me great plea¬ 
sure, and, fortunately, it happened that we had our Society’s Council meeting the same 
day that your letter arrived, which I laid, with the enclosed copy, and your too flatter¬ 
ing description of the Congress, before the Members of our Council. All the members 
present were very much pleased to hear that the Council of your highly esteemed As¬ 
sociation unanimously expressed the wish that a Pharmaceutical Congress should be held 
at an early future date in London. Loud cheers were given in answer to this cordial pro¬ 
position, so that I am convinced, an invitation being supposed, Austrian chemists will 
certainly appear, and with great pleasure at a future Pharmaceutical Congress in London. 
I then proposed, at the same meeting, that our Society’s best thanks for this graceful 
courtesy should be expressed to the Council of your Society. The motion was adopted 
unanimously, and I have the honour to be the interpreter of our feelings. I proposed 
also that our President, Mr. Beckert, should enter into correspondence with the four other 
Presidents forming the Committee for arranging the fourth Pharmaceutical Congress,— 
Messrs. Robinet (Paris), Yon Trapp (St. Petersburg), Danckwortt (Magdeburg), and 
Wolfrum (Augsburg),—to invite you, dear Sir, as the President of the greatest Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society in Europe, to kindly take part in that Committee. Director Beckert 
and the whole Council were unanimously for this motion, and I hope you will be good 
enough to accept such an invitation; on the other hand, there cannot be any objection 
to it from the remaining four Presidents. It will take some time before the invitation 
can reach you, because the distance between the five Presidents is great. At the same 
Meeting, propositions were made for the election of honorary and corresponding mem¬ 
bers of our Society. Both you and Professor Redwood will please accept, at an early 
future period, the diplomas of honorary members as a sign of the great esteem we all 
feel for you both. Please to present to Professor Redwood, especially, my best compli¬ 
ments. 
And now, dear Sir, accept my wife’s and my own best compliments. Excuse me for 
the delay of my answer, and believe me, 
“ Yours very truly affectionate, 
“ Anthony Waldheim, 
“ Pharmaceutical Chemist and Secretary of the Austrian 
“ Pharmaceutical Society.” 
The Report of the Finance and House Committee was presented, showing on the 
General Fund Account a balance in the Treasurer’s hands of <£955. 8s. 3d., and sub¬ 
mitting for payment accounts and various items amounting to £408. 16s. 10rf., and on 
the Benevolent Fund Account a balance of ^£456. 6s. id. 
