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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[October 5, 1872. 
fratTSitrfitras of % fjprmaiftttiral Swixti. 
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. 
October 2nd, 1872. 
MR. A. F. HASELDEN, F.L.S., PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
MR. W. SCOTT BROWN, VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Present—Messrs. Atherton, Betty, Bottle, Frazer, 
Greenish, Hampson, Hills, Mackay, Owen, Radley, 
Sandford, Savage, Schacht, Shaw, Stoddart, Sutton, 
Urwick and Williams. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
Elections. 
A former member of the Society having paid up his 
arrears of subscription, together with his subscription 
for the present year, and a nominal fine of one shilling, 
was restored to membership. 
Two members who had paid their subscriptions for 
the current year, together with a nominal fine of one 
shilling, were restored to membership. 
Members. 
The following Registered Chemists and Druggists 
were elected Members of the Society:— 
Heathcote, Henry Charles.Winster. 
Langford, Charles.King’s Lynn. 
Lowe, Walter.Manchester. 
Rowe, Sampson Taylor .Redruth. 
Thorpe, Joseph.Blackley, near Man¬ 
chester. 
Wright, William Frederick .... Leamington. 
Associates. 
The following gentleman having passed the Modified 
Examination, and being in business, was elected an 
“ Associate in Business ” of the Society:— 
Friend, William.Thornton Heath. 
The following, having passed their respective examina¬ 
tions, were elected Associates of the Society :— 
Minor. 
Bishop, Charles Edward.Bristol. 
Court, George Frederick ...... Worcester. 
Evans, Gwilym...Swansea. 
Modified. 
Snook, Joseph John.London. 
Finance. 
The report of this Committee was received and adopted, 
and sundry payments were ordered to be made. 
Library, Museum and Laboratory. 
The report of the Library, Museum and Laboratory 
Committee was received and adopted. 
Demonstrator of Practical Chemistry. 
Mr. John Moss, F.C.S., who has for the past three 
years filled the office of Assistant-Demonstrator of Prac¬ 
tical Chemistry, was appointed Demonstrator of Prac¬ 
tical Chemistry, vice Dr. Tilden, resigned. 
Resignation of an Examiner. 
A letter was read from Mr. Augustus Bird, tendering 
his resignation of the office of Examiner on the ground 
that he had retired from business for some years, and 
that he felt that a gentleman actively engaged in the 
duties of the profession was better fitted for such a posi¬ 
tion. 
“ Resolved—That the resignation of the office of Ex¬ 
aminer by Mr. Bird be accepted, and that the 
Secretary be instructed to write to him, to express 
the regret of the Council at the dissolution of the 
connection.” 
The Jacob Bell Memorial Scholarships. 
The following recommendations of the Special Com¬ 
mittee appointed to report upon the Jacob Bell Memorial 
Scholarships were taken into consideration, according to 
notice:— 
1 . That the Senior Scholarship be abolished. 
2 . That there be two Junior Scholarships of the value 
of thirty pounds each, and that the Council, when 
granting free laboratory instruction, do also grant 
free attendance to the lectures. 
3. Eligibility.—Candidates must be Registered Ap¬ 
prentices of the Society under twenty-one, and have 
passed not less, or been engaged for not less, than 
three years in the pharmacy of a Registered Phar¬ 
maceutical Chemist or Chemist and Druggist. 
4. Subjects of Examination. — Latin : — Virgil; the 
three first books of the .ZEneid; Latin prescriptions; 
translations of Latin into English and English into 
Latin; translations from any Latin pharmacopoeia, 
and parsing. English :—Composition and parsing. 
Arithmetic :—The four first simple and compound 
rules, fractions, and decimals; the British and metri¬ 
cal systems of weights and measures. 
The examinations to be wholly in writing, and in case 
of candidates unable to attend No. 17, Bloomsbury 
Square, to be conducted under the same conditions 
as the “Preliminary,” and such safeguard as the 
Council may from time to time deem expedient, and 
that the papers written by the candidate be num¬ 
bered, not named. 
The examination to be conducted by two members of 
the Board of Examiners, and the award made (sub¬ 
ject to the approval of the Council) by a Committee 
of the President, the Vice-President, and the two 
said examiners, who shall take into consideration 
the means, position, and surroundings of the candi¬ 
dates, as well as the number of marks obtained in 
the competition, and preference shall, where prac¬ 
ticable, be given to those least favoured by fortune. 
Notice to be given that the successful candidates 
will be expected to present themselves for the Minor 
and Major examinations. 
Mr. Williams moved— 
“ That the recommendation of the Special Committee 
appointed to consider the Jacob Bell Memorial 
Scholarships be received and adopted.” 
He said the matter had been under consideration for 
some time, and that it was the opinion of the Committee 
that giving the senior scholarship was offering a prize to 
young men who had received a considerable amount of 
instruction, whereas it did not encourage young men 
who really wanted to learn their business. It rather 
acted as a superior prize given for attainments, which 
really _ tended to pass the recipients out of the busi¬ 
ness instead of retaining them in it. This view 
was so strongly impressed upon the Committee, that 
they had thought it better to leave out the subject 
of pharmacy and botany from the competitive examina¬ 
tion for candidates. He thought what they wanted was 
to try and encourage the young members and appren¬ 
tices to pursue their studies so as to qualify them for 
worthily filling the position in which they would be 
hereafter placed when conducting the business of che¬ 
mist and druggist. It was found that practically the 
Bell Scholarship was a prize given to the students in 
the laboratory, whereas they should strive to make it a 
general prize open to all young men in the country. 
He only wished they were in a position to recommend 
that, instead of two, there should be two dozen junior 
scholarships, and he should be very glad if the funds of 
the Society could be spent in that way, so that their 
laboratory might be filled with young men from all 
parts of the kingdom who had gained the right to study 
there by their proficiency in the studies they had already 
undergone. However, they were not able at present to 
