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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[August 17,187? 
HwmMnp af jgtienMt Jtatits. 
BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
The Ninth Annual Meeting of the British Pharma¬ 
ceutical Conference was commenced on Tuesday, August 
13, 1872, at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, under the 
Presidency of H. B. Brady, Esq., F.L S., F.C.S. (New- 
castle-on-Tyne). 
After the reception of delegates, the town of Bradford, 
in Yorkshire, was fixed upon as the place of meeting for 
the year 1873. 
The following report of the Executive Committee and 
the Treasurer’s account were then read and agreed to: — 
Report or the Executive Committee. 
During the past year your Committee has held three 
meetings. On November 1st, 1871, final arrangements 
for the publication of the Year Book were made, and 
the position of the Conference in relation to towns pro¬ 
posed to be visited was discussed. On July 2nd, 1872, 
a report of the work done by the Senior Secretary and 
Assistant Secretary during the year was received and 
adopted; the financial condition of the Conference was 
considered, arrangements for the meeting at Brighton 
were made; and there was read an important letter 
from Thomas Hyde Hills, Esq., respecting a munificent 
gift of £200, to be expended for the advancement of 
Pharmaceutical education and research, under the di¬ 
rection of the Executive Committee of the British Phar¬ 
maceutical Conference. Last evening (August 12th, 
1872) the Committee transacted the details of business 
connected with the present meeting. 
, Tim Year Book is an established success. In pub¬ 
lishing it the Conference meet a want on the part of 
pharmacists for an annual resume of all that is new in 
pharmacy; and, judging from the unanimous public and 
private expressions of opinion, the want is now satis- 
factorily supplied. With the continued assistance of 
the present Editor and of the Secretaries, who edit the 
Transactions bound up with the Year-Book, your Com¬ 
mittee believes that in succeeding issues the high cha¬ 
racter of the volume will be maintained. 
The Committee congratulates the Conference on the 
continued success of the annual meetings. The com¬ 
bined efforts of the members have extended the field of 
Pharmaceutical Research, and more thickly peopled it 
with workers, while in no way impoverishing other or¬ 
ganizations for the. ingathering of its harvests. For the 
means of communicating to each other and discussing , 
the results of investigations much credit is due to the 
Local Committees in the towns visited. To excite in 
lesident pharmacists interest in the objects of the Con¬ 
ference, assist the Secretaries to hire rooms in which to 
hold, the meetings, and to contrive opportunities for 
public discussion and conversation, are the three ways in 
which Local Committees can effectively promote the ob¬ 
jects of the Conference. 
The financial condition of the Conference is satisfac¬ 
tory. . I rom the following statement it will be seen that 
there is a balance in hand, and that it is about the same 
in amount as at the end of the previous year:_ 
The Treasurer in account with the British Pharmaceutical 
Conference , 1871-72. 
Dr. £ s c7 
To cash in hand, June 30, 1871 . 50 0 0 
„ Sale of 61 Tear Books by Publisher .... 15 5 o 
” » it » Secretary .... 13 12 6 
„ Advertisements in Year Book . 81 8 6 
„ Subscriptions from Members . 473 io 9 
£633 16 9 
Cr. 
By expenses connected with Year Book—• 
Butler and Tanner, for 
printing and binding .. £327 7 1 
Postage of Year Book .. 68 15 10 
Salary to Editor . -100 0 0 
J. and A. Churchill, 25 per 
per cent, commission on 
advertisements. 20 7 0 
Nutt, for Foreign Journals 9 12 6 
Advertising Year Book .. 2 6 0 
- 528 8 5> 
By General Printing—- 
Taylor and Co. 7 2 6 
Butler and Tanner. 5 15 0 
- 12 17 0 
By Advertising. 0 15 Q. 
„ Directing Circulars and Correcting Proofs 3 16 9 
„ Assistant-Secretary’s Salary and expenses 
at Edinburgh . 25 17 & 
„ Reporting Edinburgh Meeting. 2 13 6 
„ Postage. 17 0 O’ 
„ Sundries . 3 14 6* 
„ Balance. 38 14 1 
£633 16 9 
1872. £ 5 . cl. 
June 30. Cash in hand. 38 14 1 
Postage-stamps in hand. 810 9 
- £47 4 L 
Bell and Hills’ Library Fund. 
To balance in hand, June 30, 1871 .. .. 31 10 O' 
„ Russian Bonds, received from T. H. Hills, 
Esq. 200 0 0' 
231 10 0 
By Grant for Books to Edinburgh . 10 10 O 
Balance in hand. £221 0 0* 
Examined and found correct— 
H. C. Baildon 1 Auditors 
Julius Schweitzer ) Auaitor3> 
The President then delivered the following address:— 
The President’s Address. 
It seems to have become a recognized duty of your' 
President to open the general proceedings of the Con¬ 
ference by a review, from one standpoint or another, of 
the progress of pharmacy during his year of office; and 
when I look back to the addresses that haA r e on such: 
occasions emanated from my predecessors, I may well 
have misgivings of most serious nature as to my ability 
to follow in their footsteps without discredit to myself 
and disappointment to you. Happily, however, there is 
no necessity strictly to follow precedent, for the duty of 
summarizing periodically the results of pharmaceutical, 
research, is now undertaken by one far better fitted fox- 
the task,—with larger opportunities for its right perfor¬ 
mance, and not bound by the restraints and limitations' 
incident to a general address,—I allude to the accom¬ 
plished editor of your 1 Year Book.’ Concerning his. 
work I will say no more at this moment than to point to 
it as an explanation of my decision to speak of thor 
present and future, rather than of the immediate past 
of pharmacy. And I am the more impelled to follow 7 
the course thus open to me, for alas! circumstances un¬ 
foreseen when I accepted the post I have the honour to- 
hold, and altogether beyond human control, have placed 
it out of my power to follow closely the advance either of 
those branches of science "which directly concern us or 
of the manipulative arts which enter into our daily em¬ 
ployment. The report which you have just heard read 
will satisfy you, as it well may, of the flourishing con- 
