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1st, we label every box, bottle, vessel, or package in our stock, containing any of these 
eighty articles with its own name and the word ‘ Poison 2nd, unless we keep them 
all separate from other drugs, or keep them in angular, fluted, or corrugated, or in some 
way different bottles and jars from those containing other drugs; and 3rd, unless in 
dispensing and compounding we put lotions, etc., in these same distinctive bottles and 
label them ‘ for external use,’ or words to that effect. So that in point of fact, we are 
now liable to a penalty of £5 if we sell a Dover’s powder or put a pennyworth of 
laudanum in a cough mixture, and do not enter it in the prescription book; and we 
shall be liable to the same penalty if we sell a twopenny liniment containing laudanum, 
or put a drachm or two of tinct. lyttse into a bottle of hair-wash, and do not put it into 
an angular or fluted bottle, or if a plain bottle, stick a sand-paper label on it, with a 
cautionary one besides.” 
In the discussion which followed |the reading of Mr. Wilkinson’s paper, much dif¬ 
ference of opinion was expressed as to the probable working of the proposed regulations; 
Mr. Hampson, Mr. Siebold, and some other gentlemen supporting them, whilst Mr. 
Bostock, Mr. Slugg, and others considered them impracticable. 
Mr. Gill (Pendleton) thought it most desirable that the “ preparations ” intended to 
be included in the schedule should be enumerated therein. 
Ultimately Messrs. Bostock, Benger, Fisher, Hampson, Robinson, Siebold, Slugg, and 
"Wilkinson were appointed a sub-committee to consider the subject and report to the 
next meeting. 
On Friday evening, March 4th, Mr. B. Robinson will read a paper on “ Late Hours 
of Business, and the Effect of such on the Progress of Pharmacy.” 
THE SHEFFIELD PHARMACEUTICAL AND CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Annual Meeting of the Members of this Association was held in their rooms, 
Music Hall, on the evening of Wednesday, January 12th; the retiring President, Mr. 
Hill, in the chair. 
There was a numerous attendance of Members and Associates. 
The President, Mr. Hill, delivered the following short address :— 
Gentlemen,—This being the first Annual General Meeting of the Sheffield Pharma¬ 
ceutical and Chemical Association, before asking our Hon. Sec. to read the report, I will 
remark that I think you will feel with me, that we have great reason to congratulate 
ourselves on what has been accomplished during the first year of the Society’s existence. 
Had I been told three years ago that the Pharmaceutical Chemists and Chemists and 
Druggists of Sheffield would be united in a local Association, having such a lecture-room 
as this, as well as a separate committee-room, with such a large and useful museum, a 
small but select valuable library, and so excellent a microscope, and that lectures upon 
chemistry, materia medica, and botany would be delivered to our young men, I really 
could not have believed it. But. gentlemen, such is the fact; and I rejoice with you that 
it is so. The passing of the Pharmacy Act, and the establishment of Associations like 
this, for the education of our future chemists, is the consummation of what we have 
been for nearly thirty years striving for, and I trust our young men will avail themselves 
of the means we have so well provided for them. I will now, gentlemen, ask our Hon. 
Sec., Mr. E. Barber, to read the report. 
Report. 
In presenting the first annual report, the Council claim the indulgence of the mem¬ 
bers in recapitulating the circumstances which led to the formation of the Association. 
In 1868, the long desired and hoped for Pharmacy Act became law, which necessitated 
the union of chemists and pharmaceutists in the town and neighbourhood of Sheffield 
into one Association, having for its objects the promotion of mutual good-will, and 
general trade interests; the reading of papers, and discussions on subjects connected with 
pharmacy and collateral sciences ; the training and professional education of those who 
are now required by law to pass the Examinations of the Pharmaceutical Society ; and 
the proper upholding of the Pharmacy Act in the district. 
In January, 1869, after many preliminary meetings had been held, a code of rules was 
