October 5, 1872.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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Mr. Bottle said he also should object to opening the 
laboratory to lady students at present, though he had no 
doubt that would come at a future time. He thought 
special arrangements would have to be made, which he 
did not think they were just now in a position to pro¬ 
vide. A few years ago ladies were not admitted to the 
Inaugural Meetings and Conversaziones; and when a 
resolution was passed for inviting their attendance, it 
was soon found the building would not accommodate them, 
and they had to go to South Kensington. The same re¬ 
sult would probably ensue if they were admitted to labo¬ 
ratory instruction, and therefore he should ask the Coun¬ 
cil, as a progressive movement, to pass a resolution at 
present simply admitting ladies to the lectures. If it 
were found that they appreciated the advantages offered 
to them, and that there was really any demand on then- 
part for laboratory instruction, he had no doubt it would 
be provided. 
Mr. Mackay said he should support the same view. 
In Edinburgh Miss Jex Blake had beaten the whole 
Senatus, and had obliged them to teach ladies, but she 
could not compel them to teach in mixed classes, and 
Dr. Macadam had had rooms fitted up in Miss Blake’s 
own house, where he gave instruction to six or eight 
young ladies. 
Mr. Hampson said he had no objection, in deference 
to the wishes which had been expressed to modify his 
resolution, confining it to the lecture classes. 
Mr. Brown said he consented to withdraw the word 
“Laboratory,” not from any want of faith in the 
p rinciple, but simply as a matter of expediency, for ho 
really did think that with their present arrangements, 
they were not in a position to admit ladies to the labora- 
tory. 
it was then resolved unanimously that the resolution 
passed in 1862, prohibiting ladies from attending the 
lectures be rescinded, and that ladies be admitted to 
attend as students the lecture classes of the Pharmaceuti¬ 
cal Society. 
PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
Wednesday Evening, October 2nd. 
The Opening Meeting of the Session 1872-3 was 
held at 17, Bloomsbury Square on Wednesday even¬ 
ing last. There was a very large attendance of 
pharmacists and students, and several ladies honoured 
the proceedings with their presence. 
The Chair was occupied by Mr. A. F. Haselden, 
F.L.S., President of the Society. 
The Secretary having read the minutes of the 
preceding meeting, the following donations to the 
Library were announced, and thanks were voted to 
the respective donors:— 
Mycetoma—the Fungus-foot Disease of India; On 
Gnats’ Scales: from Mr. Jabez Plogg (Author),—The 
New Patent Relating to the Sewage of Towns : from 
Mr. J. Brough Pow (Author),—Tenth Annual Report of 
the Birmingham Free Libraries Committee, 1871 yfrom 
the Committee,—Portion of MS. of a work on Chemistry, 
by Guyton de Morveau; L’Eucalyptus, by Raveret—AVat- 
tel: from Dr. J. L. Soubeiran,—An Experimental Re¬ 
search on the Antagonism between the Actions of Physo- 
stigma and Atropia : from Dr. T. R. Fraser (Author),— 
Sketch of the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Ban¬ 
bury : from Mr. T. Beesley (Author),—Edinburgh 
University Calendar, 1872-73 : from the University,— 
Report of the Curator of the Botanical Exchange Club : 
from Dr. Trimen,—Pharmacopoeia Helvetica, 1872: 
from the “ Societe Suisse des Pharmaciens,”—Memoir— 
R. Chambers and AY. Chambers: from Air. T. H. Hills,— 
Smithsonian Report, 1870 : from the Smithsonian Institu¬ 
tion,—Glasgow University Calendar, 1872-73: from 
he University,—Chemistry—General, Medical, and 
Pharmaceutical, Fourth Edition : from Professor Att- 
field (Author). 
The President said: It is customary upon occa¬ 
sions like the present, for the Chairman to address a 
few words of welcome to those assembled. To avoid 
repetition, I will ask you, if possible, to call to re¬ 
membrance those spoken by myself twelve months 
ago, more especially the allusion to the pleasure 
derived from the presence of those kind friends and 
visitors who take an earnest interest in our pro¬ 
ceedings and prosperity. To me an evening meeting 
like this, the harbinger as it were of the future, 
carries with it associations of an enjoyable character, 
which I trust may never be diminished; it connects 
the past with the future, the Session which has run 
its course with that which is approaching, the seniors 
with the juniors, the land and encouraging words of 
the Professors (and I expect they will be quite as 
much so this evening, if not more so, than usual) with 
their pupils, and the good words of the address with 
the students new and old. It is a strong link in the 
chain which binds us together; may it, like a 
flourishing vine, year by year grow stronger and 
stronger. 
Chemistry and Pharmacy. 
The President then called upon Professor Red¬ 
wood, as the senior Professor, to present his report 
with regard to the Chemistry and Pharmacy Class.. 
Professor Redwood said that what he had to submit 
to them that evening was simply a statement of facts 
relating to the class which was under his direction in 
connection with this Society, and had reference to a 
past Session. But one important object of their meet¬ 
ing was, as their President had very justly stated, to 
refer not merely to the past but to the future. It 
was to open a new Session of their school, and in 
this respect their proceedings would have reference 
to a future Session. In fact, their meeting there 
that evening had for its object to bring together the 
past and the future, and they might say that the 
past,the present, and the future were all associated in 
that meeting. They proposed to introduce students 
of a past to those of a future Session, and to intro¬ 
duce both to those who represented the present 
existing state of the pharmaceutical body, and to the 
parents and friends from whom • they derived their 
supply of students, and who had met together with 
them to do honour to some of the most deserving and 
successful of those who had studied in the schools of 
the Society. At the examination which concluded 
the last Session, in July last, and which was in every 
respect a perfectly satisfactory Session, fifteen com¬ 
petitors presented themselves in the chemical class 
for the prizes which were awarded by the Council; 
of those fifteen, it was his pleasure and gratification 
to be able to report seven to the Council as having 
gained a sufficient number of marks by the answers 
which they had given to the long list of questions 
which were submitted to them, to entitle them 
to some distinction. He might here state that 
fifteen questions were submitted in his class, 
extending over a very wide area of physics, practical 
pharmacy, and chemistry, both inorganic and or¬ 
ganic, and the answers to those fifteen questions had 
to determine the claims of the respective parties to 
recognition and reward. Six hours altogethei were 
appropriated to the answering of these questions ■ 
two periods of three hours each; and he might state, 
as he had already stated to the Council, that, taking 
