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only Scotchman there, the London Council listened very readily to all he had to 
state on behalf of the claims of the North British branch. He knew, and he believed 
all present would admit, they would not find perfection in any society, as they 
would not find perfection in any man, but this he would say with all truth and sin¬ 
cerity, that throughout the world they would not find gentlemen more willing, and, 
from their high scientific position, more able, to guide the affairs of the Pharmaceutical 
Society, than those who had occupied, and still continue to occupy, seats at the Council 
Board. And if any proof was wanted of the truth of what he had said, he might 
take them back to the commencement of the Society in 1841, and point to the high and 
proud position which the Pharmaceutical Society occupied at the present day. But 
anything he could say would be quite uncalled for, knowing as he did that many around 
the table had watched, and continued to watch, the proceedings of that London 
Council, and he was sure the more they all knew of the labour, the time, and anxiety 
spent by these gentlemen on behalf of that Society, the more would the Council bo 
respected. 
Mr. Ainslie then proposed “ The Lecturers and Honorary Members,” and Professor 
Archer responded to the toast. 
Among the other toasts were,—“Friends from a Distance,” proposed by Mr. C. H. 
Baildon, and responded to by Mr. Kinninmont; “The Chairman,” by Mr. Kemp; 
“ The Croupiers,” by Mr. Blanshard ; and “ The Secretary,” by the Chairman. 
During the evening several good songs were sung. 
PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
BRADFORD CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
A Quarterly General Meeting of the Members of the above Society took place at 
their rooms in Salem Street, on the evening of Tuesday, the 12th of April; Mr. Michael 
Rogerson in the chair. 
The main subject of discussion was the proposed legislation directing the isolation, in 
the dispensaries of chemists, of the somewhat heterogeneous class of substances which 
the law has indiscriminately branded with the spell-word Poison ! 
After several members had given expression to their views in reference to the ques - 
tion, the following resolution, being offered by the Secretary, was proposed by Mr. 
Hick, seconded by Mr. F. M. Rimmington, and carried unanimously:— 
“ That, in the opinion of this meeting, legislation respecting, the manner in which 
poisons shall be kept is undesirable; 
“ That some of the plans suggested would involve dangers as great as those they are 
intended to avert; 
“ And that the matter may be safely left to the discrimination and sense of responsi¬ 
bility of those who are authorized to use and deal in such substances.” 
BRISTOL PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. 
(Lecture on “ Apothecaries, Druggists , and Pharmacists , past , present , and future .” 
Continued from page 616.) 
BY MR. CHARLES TOWNSEND. 
This was pre-eminently the age of quackery, and it is well perhaps that I should say 
all I think need be said on this subject at this point. In the ‘Dunce’s Directory 5 for 
1678, a strange and vivid description of, and satire upon, the true quack appears. I 
wish I could add that the race was- extinct, and that the miserable impostor had no 
followers in our own enlightened days. The Directory says :— 
“ To support this title there are several things very convenient, of which some are 
external accoutrements,'others internal qualifications. 
“ Your outward requisites are a decent black suit and (if your credit will go so far 
in Long Lane) a plush jacket,—not a pin the worse though threadbare as a tailor’s 
cloak, it shows the more reverend antiquity. 
