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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[October 5, 1872,1 
ference at Brighton; tliey were published in the 
Pharmaceutical Journal of the 9tli September. 
Mr. Rammell also, like Mr. Davies, gave indications 
of leaving pharmacy for higher paths of labour, fol¬ 
lowing in that respect the example of too many of 
the Bell scholars. The Professor took to himself 
some credit for keeping Mr. Rammell to a certain 
extent amongst them. He had accepted a situation 
which, though not in Europe, was in connection 
with pharmacy, and on the preceding day had sailed 
for India, to join a large establishment in pharmacy 
there, so that the bond which bound them together 
was not snapped, it was only stretched. The third, 
fourth, and fifth on the list were Mr. Joseph Walker, 
Mr. Richard Trist, and Mr. F. J. Hanbury, who had 
obtained respectively, seventy-six, seventy-five, and 
seventy-five marks. It was due to these three gen¬ 
tlemen to state that through various circumstances 
they were unable to work at practical chemistry, 
during every day of the whole Session. They were 
only able to work for some four or five months each, 
and, therefore, the position they had obtained was 
all the more creditable to them. Certificates of 
Merit had been awarded by the Council to Mr. Da¬ 
niel Badcock, Mr. Walter B. Bishop, Mr. James 
Herbert Midgley, Mr. Arthur Brownliill Cortis, and 
Mr. David Edwards. These gentlemen had gamed 
nearly seventy marks each, and they quite deserved 
the position they had obtained. With regard to Mr. 
Bishop, he ought perhaps to say that, like Mr. Da¬ 
vies and Mr. Rammell, he had made some original 
investigations and experiments during the Session 
on the commercial purity and impurity of Iodide of 
Potassium, and had mitten a paper which would be 
found in the Pharmaceutical Journal of the 3rd 
August, and which would be seen to contain evidence 
of a considerable amount of analytical skill. At 
the close of the Session, the staff of the labora¬ 
tory sustained a considerable loss. Dr. Tilden, who 
had been the senior demonstrator, the senior assis¬ 
tant in the laboratory for some nine years, had 
succeeded in obtaining the appointment of Lecturer 
on Chemistry at Clifton College. It would be known 
to most of those present that the officers of this 
Society, including the President and Vice-President, 
the Secretary and the Professors, invited Dr. Tilden 
to a dinner when he had obtained his appointment, 
and presented him with a testimonial, showing their 
regard for him as a colleague and a gentleman. The 
laboratory students of last Session, and of some pre¬ 
vious Sessions, had also, the audience would be glad 
to know, subscribed a sum of money to show their ap¬ 
preciation of his attention to them, and the result 
was a present in the shape of the very handsome 
balance which was then on the table. While con¬ 
gratulating Dr. Tilden most strongly on the ap¬ 
pointment he had obtained, he (Professor Attfield) 
regretted the loss for his own sake, for the sake of 
the laboratory, and for the sake of the Society. He 
would add, for the sake of pharmacy, for Dr. Tilden 
had contributed to pharmacy several valuable papers 
during the time that he was demonstrator in the 
Society. It was to be hoped, however, that in this 
particular respect they had not lost him altogether, 
lor lie .promised still to give them the results of some 
investigations. Dr. Tilden had been asked by several 
ol the students to attend there that evening, and 
had written regretting his complete inability to be 
present. The letter was as follows;— 
“ College G-ate, Clifton, Bristol, 
“ 26th September, 1872. 
“My dear Dr. Attfield,—My lecture hours are un¬ 
fortunately arranged in such a way that I find, to my 
very great regret, I shall be unable to be present at the 
annual gathering on October 2nd. I shall be glad, there¬ 
fore, if you will, in my unavoidable absence, kindly offer 
to those students of the past Session who come up to re¬ 
ceive their well-earned honours, an expression of my 
hearty congratulations on them success and hopes for 
their future progress and welfare. 
“ At the same time I should like to say that I hope to 
hear of the uninterrupted prosperity and usefulness of 
the School of Pharmacy, and trust the laboratory work 
in which I have always taken a good deal of interest may 
long go on as vigorously as heretofore. 
“ Believe me, my dear Dr. Attfield, 
“ Yours very sincerely, 
“ William A. Tilden. 
“ Prof. Attfield, Ph.D.” 
The questions for examination were :— 
Hours : Ten to Five. Books and Memoranda permitted. 
Standard Number of Marks, 100. 
1. The substances supplied to you are six pharma¬ 
copoeia! chemicals. Name them. 
2. Ascertain the nature of the impurities (if any) 
present in the two accompanying salts. 
3. The paper is supposed to contain arsenic. Ascer¬ 
tain if such is the case. 
4. A specimen of urinary deposit is placed before yon * 
ascertain by the microscope the nature of its con¬ 
stituents. 
5. Determine volumetrically the amount of carbonate 
of sodium (Na 2 C0 3 ) in the sample. 
6. Ascertain by a gravimetric method the percentage- 
of acetate of lead in the impure specimen before you. 
P.S. You are at liberty to select one of the last two 
exercises, but not to attempt both. The same value in 
marks is attached to a correct answer in either. 
Herbarium Prize. 
The President next called upon Professor Bentley 
to report respecting the Herbarium prize. 
Professor Bentley said that amongst the prizes 
given in connection with the Pharmaceutical Society, 
he considered one of the best instituted by the Council 
was that given for Herbaria of British plants. He 
classed this amongst the best, because it encouraged 
young men, particularly in the country, to devote 
some time during their pupilage to the acquirement 
of knowledge which could not but be essential to 
them in their future progress. He regretted that on 
the present occasion only one collection of British 
plants was sent hi for competition; but while he said 
lie regretted there was only one, he need only point 
to that one to show them that he could not speak in 
too high terms of the student who had sent it in. 
When he told them the name of that gentleman, 
they would be prepared for great things; and when 
they saw the case opened in which the specimens 
were contained, they would confess that even he, 
who was always inclined to encourage students with 
a good word if he possibly could, had not said all 
that could be said of the deserts of the gentleman who 
had collected them. The name of the contributor 
was Mr. Frederick Janson Hanbury, who had sent in 
a collection of British plants containing upwards of 
700 specimens, nearly half thetflora of the British 
islands. The number was in itself an evidence of the 
indefatigable industry of Mr. Hanbury. And when he 
(Professor Bentley) stated that, independently of the 
number, nearly the whole of England and Ireland hatl 
