PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
451 
EXAMINATION IN EDINBURGH. 
January 11 th, 1870. 
Present—Messrs. Ainslie, Aitken, Buchanan, Evans, Kemp, Mackay, and Young. 
Eighteen candidates were examined ; the following eleven passed :— 
MAJOR (registered as a Pharmaceutical Chemist). 
Robertson, William, Elgin. 
MINOR (registered as a Chemist and Druggist). 
Dunn, John, Aberdeen. 
MODIFIED (registered as Chemists and Druggists). 
Gemmell, Hugh, Ayr. 
Grieve, John Bodden, Maxwelltown. 
Guthrie, Andrew, Liverpool. 
Hitchin, Robert, Bradford, Yorks. 
Kennedy, Patrick Maclean, Glasgow. 
Stevenson, James Muir, Ardrishaig. 
PRELIMINARY (registered as Apprentices or Students). 
Glegg, John, Edinburgh. | Shearer, John, Wick. 
Yeitch, John Wilson, Dunse. 
PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
Wednesday , January 5th , 1870. 
MR. A. F. HASELDEN, VICE-PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting having been read, the following 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 
were announced, and the thanks of the Meeting given to the respective donors 
thereof 
Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, vol. lii.: from the Royal Medical and Chirurgical 
Society,—Lettsom’s Natural History of the Tea-tree : from Mr. D. Hanbury,—Gommes- 
Resines des Ombelliferes ; Rapport sur l’Exposition des Produits de Peche de la Haye 
en 1867; from Dr. J. L. Soubeiran,—Catechism of the Decimal Albert and Metric 
Systems of Weights, Measures, and Coins : from Professor Bonn. 
NOTES ON THE PHARMACOPCEIA. 
BY PROFESSOR REDWOOD. 
The Chairman said the first business of the evening would be to discuss the 
paper read at the previous meeting by Dr. Redwood, on the British Pharmaco¬ 
poeia, and he would, therefore, call on the Professor to make some remarks, for 
the purpose of introducing the subject. 
Dr. Redwood did not think it could be necessary for him to say anything 
to impress the members present with the importance and interest of the subject, 
but he might be allowed to remind them of the circumstances under which it 
was now brought before them for discussion. On previous occasions, when 
similar subjects had been introduced there, he had been under some restraint in 
alluding to what had been done by the Pharmacopoeia Committee of the Medi¬ 
cal Council, fearing that he might say more than he would be considered justi¬ 
fied in communicating, although, at the same time, he felt that by referring to 
