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and to the expenses of which each should contribute 
his share, affording as it would greater freedom 
of intercourse and better opportunities for making 
acquaintances, would be far preferable to allowing the 
local members to be called upon to act more or less 
in the character of hosts. 
THE COSTS OF THE BETTS SUITS. 
The defence of the Betts Suits has proved to be 
no exception to the general rule, that even when 
most successful in repelling an attack in the law 
courts the defendant is severely punished in having 
to pay the difference between the real and the taxed 
costs. We are sorry to learn that there is still a 
balance of upwards of ,£700 due to the Solicitors for 
the expenses incurred in defending the above suits. 
The sum is a large one ; and the gentlemen who so 
generously and promptly came forward as guarantors 
of the funds necessary for meeting the common danger 
should be at once relieved from the responsibility. 
As was shown by the number of suits actually com¬ 
menced, no chemist and druggist, perfumer, oilman 
or tradesman selling capsuled bottles, was free from 
the risk of one, and if all those who have had their 
battle so well fought for them was to send at once a 
contribution to the Chairman of the Defence Fund, 
Mr. W. T. Cooper, 20, Oxford Street, W., or to the 
Treasurer, Mr. Lionel Newbery, 37, Newgate Street, 
the necessary sum would soon be raised. In reply to 
former appeals of the Committee, donations to a con¬ 
siderable amount were promised, many of which re¬ 
main unpaid to the present time. It is hoped that 
now the final result is known, these may be forwarded 
without further delay to either of the above gentle¬ 
men. 
iwnsstftimis of % Hpiuiratol SMrig. 
EXAMINATIONS IN EDINBURGH. 
July 10 th, 1872. 
Present—Messrs. Ainslie, Aitken, Buchanan, Ivinnin- 
mont and Young. 
Professor Maclagan was also present on behalf of the- 
Privy Council. 
Three candidates presented themselves for the Major 
Examination; of these, one failed. The following two 
passed and were declared duly qualified to be registered 
as Pharmaceutical Chemists :— 
* Metcalfe, Wilson.Sheffield. 
Munro, John Morrison .Bridge of Allan. 
Ten candidates presented themselves for the Minor 
Examination; of these, three failed. The following 
seven passed, and were declared duly qualified to be 
registered as Chemists and Druggists :— 
* Gordon, John .Aberdeen. 
Marshall, James .Over. 
Macmillan, James .Perth. 
Bremner, Allan Hugh.Edinburgh. 
Tocher, John .Aberdeen. 
Eingland, William.Wavertree. 
Davidson, James.Falkirk. 
The above names are arranged in order of merit. 
The following presented themselves for the Modified 
Examination, and passed, and were declared duly quali¬ 
fied to be registered as Chemists and Druggists 
Beattie, Walter.Portobello. 
Forsyth, James...Montrose. 
Hutchison, John .Irvine. 
McKenzie, William.Glasgow. 
PRELIMINARY. 
The following is the result of the Examination held 
on the 1st instant:— 
On Monday last, Mr. G. H. Savage, M.D. Lond., 
a son of Mr. W. D. Savage, of Brighton, was elected 
to the office of Junior Physician to Bethlehem Hos¬ 
pital from a large number of candidates. 
Many of our readers will hear with regret that the 
present is the last session in which the School of 
Pharmacy at Bloomsbury Square will have the 
services of Dr. W. A. Tilden as Demonstrator in its 
Laboratory, that gentleman having been recently 
appointed Lecturer on Chemistry in Clifton College. 
Dr. Quain has given notice that at the next Comi- 
tia of the College of Physicians, he will move that 
the list of “ recommendations” to the Committee of 
Reference as to the working of the Conjoint Exami¬ 
nation Scheme shall be openly discussed. It has 
recently been decided that an abstract of the pro¬ 
ceedings of each meeting of the College shall be sus¬ 
pended in the hall of the building, and thus an offi¬ 
cially correct record of all the business which is 
transacted at the Comitia will be accessible to the 
Fellows and Members and to the medical press. 
England and Wales. 
Two hundred and eighty-two candidates presented 
themselves for this examination ; of these,_ ninety-two 
failed, and the following one hundred and ninety passed 
and were duly registered as Apprentices or Students. 
Whyte, Alexander .London. 
Jeffries, Benjamin .Brixton. 
■a ( Heritage, Julius Harvey.London. 
,f \ Jones, Thomas Pryce.Wrexham. 
Walker, Charles Henry.Liverpool. 
-i ( Campbell, Henry.Hammersmith. 
I” 1 Davies, Samuel.Swansea. 
( Bowler, William James.London. 
IJ Ronchetti, Thomas Angelo... .Stockton-on-lees. 
w I Webb, William James .Melbourn. 
Starling, William Egerton... .Tunbridge Wells. 
( Francis, James.Liverpool. 
\ Row, George Commins .Braintree. 
Cox, Frederick John .Newark. 
Whewell, Herbert .Birmingham. 
( Hircock, George Walter.Kettenn g. 
i Simpkins, George Star . Mmchinhampton. 
i Powell, Walter Morris .Wrexham. 
i Thomas, Arthur Wm. Wynne Bala. 
( Crook, Arthur Williams.^' est ° n - « 
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