LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
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Professor Archer illustrated his very interesting paper with a variety of specimens 
including the musk-deer, civet, and other remarkable productions. 
PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
BRADFORD CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Annual Meeting of the members of the above was held in their rooms, Salem 
Street, on the evening of Friday, the 4th of February ; the President, Mr. Michael 
Rogerson, in the chair. 
There was but a moderate attendance. 
The Secretary, Mr. Herbert G. Rogerson, gave a resume of the Society’s operations 
during the past year, with especial regard to the primary subject of the “ technical ” 
education of students. 
The report stated that the work to which the Society set itself immediately on its 
formation—at the commencement of last year—was that of providing for the associates 
a series of lectures by a competent instructor upon the subject of chemistry ; the “ Non- 
Metallic Elements ” being chosen as the theme for a preliminary course, and the 
services of Mr. George Ward, F.C.S., of Leeds, being secured as the Society’s lecturer. 
The many indications of success which attended the delivery of these lectures, the 
increased number of students, and the untiring attention bestowed, induced the com¬ 
mittee, at the conclusion of the course, to arrange for the delivery during the summer 
months of a series of lectures on structural botany. Mr. Louis Miall, of Bradford, 
lectured upon this subject, which was worked through to the conclusion in a most 
satisfactory manner. 
The second course of chemistry lectures was then proceeded with, Mr. Ward being 
again the lecturer, and his subject, “The Metals and their Compounds.” This course, 
which has just been concluded, has been attended by a similar amount of success to that 
which characterized the delivery of the former series. 
A class organized by the students for the study of Latin has unfortunately been at¬ 
tended with only a very moderate amount of success—the attendance, from some cause 
not clearly ascertained, gradually falling off, until some half-dozen individuals repre¬ 
sented a once numerically prosperous class. 
On the Society’s lists for 1869 (the first year of its existence) there are the names of 
twenty-five members and thirty-three associates, and there appears ground for the hope 
that the year 1870 will witness a fair augmentation of their number. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Seventh General Meeting was held at the Royal Institution, January 20, 1870; 
the President, Mr. J. Abraham, in the chair. 
A donation to the museum of several samples of drugs from Messrs. Evans, Lescher, 
and Co., was announced by the Secretary, and a vote of thanks was passed to the 
donors. 
Mr. Maskery, of West Derby, was elected a member of the Association. 
The President said that chloral was now manufactured at a moderate price, and 
was being largely used. He believed that it would be valuable as a sedative rather 
than as an anaesthetic. He also called the attention of members to the fact that the 
new schedule of poisons would come into force on the following day. 
Mr. Charles Symes, Ph.D., etc., then delivered an address on “ Pharmaceutical 
Honesty.” . 
He divided his subject into two parts. First, those cases in which the public feel 
that the pharmaceutist acts dishonestly, and himself participates in that feeling, where 
there is really no ground for such convictions. Secondly, those cases in which dishonesty 
might be and often is practised, the public being comparatively ignorant of the fact, 
and the pharmaceutist troubling his conscience very little about it. Under the first 
