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ANNUAL MEETING. 
The resolution was put, and carried unanimously. 
The Chairman : This meeting, gentlemen, now stands adjourned to Tuesday next, at 
12 o’clock. 
ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING. 
May 24.th, 1870. 
n. SUGDEN EVANS, ESQ., PRESIDENT, IN T1IE CHAIR. 
The Chairman : Gentlemen, the object of this meeting is to receive the report of 
the scrutineers, therefore I call upon the Chairman of the scrutineers to bring up his 
Report. 
Mr. Andrews : Gentlemen, I have here two Reports; one which was made on 
Thursday last, and one which was made yesterday. So much time has already been 
lost in presenting the result of our labours to the Society, that I shall not make a 
speech this morning, but say the few words which I think absolutely necessary that 
I should make, both on my own part, and on the part of the scrutineers. The result 
of yesterday’s labour was to show a most wide and marked discrepancy between that 
and the result of Thursday. I must explain that in three of the sections, viz. section 
No. 1, section No. 3, and section No. 4, the discrepancies were such as might have 
occurred to the most honourable, careful, and business-like man, in the way in which 
the scrutiny is conducted; but in section No. 2, the discrepancies were sutfh that they 
cannot be accounted for in that way. No less than 100 votes have been taken from 
one gentleman, and no less than a few over 70 have been added to another, and 50 
to another. The gentleman from whom the votes have been abstracted is in no better 
position than he was before, except in this respect, that he stands sixth on the poll, 
instead of tenth, but the gentlemen to whom those votes have been added, do appear 
to me to stand in a most painful position. “ Save me from my friends,” is all I have 
to say, if that is the way in which individuals are to show their friendship. I know 
these two gentlemen—I may say w r e all of us know those two gentlemen to be men of 
most unimpeachable honour and integrity ; but malice is of such a nature that no one 
is too high or too low r to be beyond the reach of its shafts. Those gentlemen, there¬ 
fore, I say, are placed in a most painful position ; I think the conduct which has led 
to their being put in that position is very bad, and I will say no more. I will now 
hand in these two papers. I do not know whether you wish me to read them, or 
whether they will be read presently. 
The Chairman : Perhaps they had better be read presently. 
Mr. Andrews : I think so : 1 wish my duty ended there ; but I am desired, I may 
say I am commanded by my fellow-scrutineers, to read to this meeting the following 
special report: — 
To the General Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and to the 
Council of the same Society. 
The undersigned Scrutineers herewith present two reports, the earlier of them erro¬ 
neous, and the latter of them believed to be correct, and so ascertained with the aid 
of the Accountants, appointed by the adjourned general meeting ; and the undersigned 
specially report that Mr. William Dickinson, a member ot the Society, who acted as a 
Scrutineer, aud as such signed the earlier report, admitted at the table of the Scruti¬ 
neers this day that he well knew that the earlier report was not accurate at the time 
when he signed it, and that he had purposely misled his fellow-Scrutineers in the 
scrutiny. 
Dated this 23rd day of May, 1870. 
Frederick Andrews, Chairman. 
William Gulliver. 
Matthew Pound. 
Stanley Fowler. 
Alfred Sheppard. 
John Skidmore. 
Arthur T. Horton. 
Joseph Kettle. 
Edwin B. Yizer. 
Frederick Tibbs. 
Alex. Hemingway. 
Benj. M. Tippett. 
