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President, in the chair. The attendance was very large, the principals connected with 
the profession being well represented. 
The minutes of last meeting having been read and adopted, the Chairman introduced 
Dr. Carter Moffat, who. in his usual attractive manner, delivered the first of his special 
course of lectures ; the subject on this occasion was the Chemistry of Combustion, which 
was rendered highly interesting by the performance of several beautiful experiments, 
illustrative of both slow and silent and noisy and rapid combustion. The lecturer was 
frequently applauded, and at the close received a hearty vote of thanks. The Secretary 
then read the following intimation, “That the President will give one guinea as a prize 
for the best essay on the ‘ Officinal preparations of Iron’ by a member under 23 years of 
age. Essays to be sent to the Secretary, signed by a motto, and accompanied by a closed 
envelope containing address of writer, before 1st March, 1870. Messrs. Kinninmont and 
T. D. Moffat, President, Vice-President, and Secretary, to be examiners of essays.” The 
meeting theu closed. 
LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Association was held at the Church Institute on 
October 13th, 1869; the President, Mr. R. Reynolds, in the chair. 
Mr. Day was elected a member, and Messrs. Millard, Powell, and Taylor, were elected 
associates. 
The Hon. Secretary, Mr. Yewdall, read the annual report of the Committee. This 
was of a satisfactory character, and announced the addition of ten new members and 
nine associates during the year, although some losses had been sustained by death or 
removal. Numerous additions to the library were reported; and this important feature 
in the operations of the Association had been much more extensively used by the asso¬ 
ciates since its removal to a more central position in the town, where a comfortably 
warmed and lighted room is open every evening from eight to ten o’clock. During the 
past summer, a member of the Association, Mr. James Abbott, delivered a course of 
twenty-six lectures upon botany. Twenty-three tickets were issued for these lectures, 
which were given at seven o’clock in the morning. The Association had, as in former 
years, advised its associates to attend the courses of lectures on chemistry, delivered by 
Mr. Gr. Ward, F.C.S., at the Mechanics’ Institute. Twenty-five students bad so entered. 
The report recapitulated the subjects introduced at the monthly meetings of the Asso¬ 
ciation. 
The Treasurer’s account showed an income for the year of £23. 15s. by ordinary 
subscriptions, and £8 by a special subscription in aid of the library. The following 
were some items of expenditure, viz. rent, £9. 13s. lOci; books and periodicals, 
£8. 10s. 4 cl .; printing, stationery, etc., including Mr. Harvey’s address, reports of meet¬ 
ings, rules, etc., £11. 3s. 10 cl. The balance due to the secretary was £5. 16s. The re¬ 
port and accounts were adopted. 
The committee recommended the associates desirous of improving their knowledge of 
Latin, to enter the class on that subject at the Church Institute, and promised to com¬ 
mence a special class for reading prescriptions whenever there was a sufficient number 
of applicants. 
The ballot for officers for 1869-70 was then taken, with the following result :— 
President, Mr. William Smeeton ; Treasurer, Mr. Land; Hon. Librarian, Mr. R. M. 
Atkinson; Hon. Curator, Mr. Payne; Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. Yewdall; Committee, 
Messrs. Atkinson, Horsfield, Jefferson, Reynolds, Roberts, and S. Taylor. 
The President Elect, Mr. W. Smeeton, having taken the chair, proceeded to give an 
address. He referred to the pz-obable results of recent legislation, as the topic which 
must for some time have the chief interest at all gatherings of chemists. The position 
of Leeds in the educational statistics, published by Mr. Schacht, was a subject for con¬ 
gratulation, and it behoved assistants, who now' have these opportunities for improve¬ 
ment, to use them, lest by removal into another town, possibly accompanied by longer 
hours of business, they w r ould find themselves less favourably situated. Surely there 
was no hardship in the compulsory education which now faced the chemist’s assistant; 
and if this led him to habits of reading and scientific research, the result would be a 
wealth of pleasure of which nothing could deprive him, and which would richly com- 
