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They would further remind pharmaceutists that Professor Balfour has also kindly agreed 
to grant admittance to his approaching summer course of lectures, in the Royal Botanic 
Garden, to all students in pharmacy, on the same liberal terms which characterized the 
agreement entered into with the gentlemen who, during the bygone winter, have so 
ably taught the two departments of chemistry and materia medica. 
The following gentlemen were proposed and carried as office-bearers for 1870-71:— 
President. —Mr. Aitken. 
Vice-President. —Mr. Buchanan. 
Council. —The President and Vice-President; Messrs. Ainslie, D. R. Brown, H. C. 
Baildon, G. Blanshard, Gardner, Gilmore, Kemp (Portobello), Noble, Raimes, J. R. 
Young; President and Vice-President in London, ex officiis; Kinninmont, Glasgow; and 
Kerr (Dundee). 
Library and Museum Committee. —The President and Vice-President; Messrs. D. R. 
Brown, H. C. Baildon, and Mackay; Mr. D. R. Brown to be Convener. 
Secretary. —Mr. John Mackay. 
Curator of Museum. —Mr. Paton. 
Messrs. Aitken, Buchanan, Ainslie, Kemp, D. R. Brown, and J. Young, were pro¬ 
posed as Examiners. 
Mr. Mackay proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Aitken for having so ably acted as 
President for a second time, and also for having agreed to continue to fill the Chair for 
the next year. 
This was seconded by Mr. Baildon, and carried with acclamation. 
Mr. Young proposed that cordial thanks be awarded to Mr. John Mackay, who had 
continued to act with so much energy and satisfaction as Honorary Secretary. This was 
carried unanimously with loud applause. 
The meeting thereafter adjourned. 
The Annual Supper took place on the following evening, April 14th. The company 
numbered upwards of 120. Mr. Aitken, President of the Society, occupied the chair ; 
and the croupiers were Mr. J. Buchanan and Mr. W. Ainslie. Among the gentlemen 
present were : Professor Archer, Dr. Angus Macdonald, Mr. H. C. Baildon, Mr. Moffat, 
Glasgow; Mr. Kinninmont, Glasgow ; Mr. W. Graham Carr, Berwick; Mr. Seath, 
Dunfermline, etc. 
After supper, Mr. Mackay, Secretary, intimated that he had received letters of apo¬ 
logy from Professor Maclagan, Professor Crum Brown, Dr. Stevenson Macadam, Dr. 
Arthur Gamgee, Professor Balfour, Mr. Richard Raimes, and other gentlemen. 
The Chairman then proposed the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, which were warmly 
received. 
Mr. Blanshard replied for the Volunteers. 
In proposing the toast of the evening, “ Success to the Pharmaceutical Society,” the 
Chairman said that the Society deserved all that could be said of it, but as they were that 
evening inclined to be a musical party, it would be wrong in him to enter into a long tirade 
of praise in its favour, especially as they knew as thoroughly as he did the good it had 
done. They were not only indebted to the Pharmaceutical Society for bringing forward 
a better educated class of young men, but also for the many opportunities it had given 
them of meeting, as they now did, as brothers and true friends. The Society was also 
freeing them from that jealousy which used to be so keen and common among chemists 
and druggists, and he trusted that in a short time it would be thoroughly banished. 
He had great pleasure in calling upon the company to drink “ Success to the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society.” 
The toast was drunk with all the honours. 
Mr. Buchanan, Vice-President, then proposed “The London Council.” 
Mr. Mackay, in replying to the toast, said he had on many previous” occasions de¬ 
clared that the Pharmaceutical Society, as a Society, was exceedingly fortunate in 
having twenty-one such gentlemen at the head of affairs in London. He did not 
say so egotistically at all, for though he happened to be the Scotch representa¬ 
tive at that Board, distance prevented him taking his full share of work in it; but, 
notwithstanding, when he did make his appearance, he would frankly say, although the 
