October 5,1872.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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"been ransacked for the treasures, lie gave an additional 
reason wiry they should congratulate Mr. Hanbury. 
The collection contained not only common plants, 
but plants of great rarity and interest—of interest 
even to botanists. Not only had he to take excur¬ 
sions many miles to collect these different specimens, 
but he had to bring them home, to name them, to 
select those which were proper for drying, to dry them 
‘Carefully, to mount them upon paper, and to preserve 
and arrange them in the systematic and in the beau¬ 
tiful manner in which they now saw them. He (Pro¬ 
fessor Bentley) need not say any more than that he 
recommended the Council to give Mr. Hanbury 
the highest award they were enabled, namely, 
the Silver Council Medal. The Secretary had men¬ 
tioned to him, and he wished particularly to speak 
upon it that day, that several pupils had written to 
inquire whether plants gathered from botanic 
gardens were eligible for the herbaria; he (Professor 
Bentley) replied, certainly not. In large towns 
the young students could go into the botanic 
gardens where the plants were all named, but the 
object of the prize was to encourage the student to 
•exert his own knowledge. The plants for the her¬ 
barium prize must be wild plants, collected from 
native habitats, and named b} 7- the student himself; 
in fact, those conditions constituted the only value 
of the prize. He thought the Herbaria prizes might 
be increased; that in different centres, covering, say, 
an area of twenty miles, prizes might be offered for 
the best collection of British plants. 
The foregoing medals and certificates were then 
handed to those of the successful competitors who 
were present, the President congratulating the re¬ 
cipients as they came forward to receive the awards 
from his hands. 
Mr. W. A. Shexstoxe, one of the successful can¬ 
didates, the Secretary to the Testimonial Fund to 
Hr. Tilden, expressed on behalf of the students in 
the laboratory their thanks to the Council for the 
encouragements they gave to the students, to the 
Professors for the able assistance they had rendered 
the young men in pursuing their studies, and 
also to the Demonstrators, especially Dr. Tilden, 
to whom they offered their best wishes on the 
occasion of his leaving them, and their congratula¬ 
tions on the new appointment he had received. 
The Pereira Medal. 
The President then said that the highest prize 
of the year—the Pereira Medal—had been awarded 
to Mr. William Asliwell Shenstone, to whom he had 
great pleasure in handing it. 
The following were the questions for examina¬ 
tion :— 
Chemistry. 
Time allowed: Two Hours. Standard Number of 
Marks, 100. 
1. How -would you separate tin, lead, silver, bismuth) 
copper, iron, zinc, and magnesia when present together 
in the form of a powder insoluble in water, and by what 
tests would you identify each ? 
2. Describe minutely the process you would employ to 
-determine the percentage of ammonia in spirit of sal 
volatile. 
3. How would you detect the iron in yellow prussiate 
of potassium ? 
4. Explain briefly the atomic theory. 
Botany and Materia Medica. 
BOTANY. 
Time allowed: Two Hours. Standard Number of 
Marks, 100. 
1. Describe various kinds of inflorescence, illustrating 
each by an example. 
2. Give some account of the germination of the seed. 
3. What is phu ? Name its varieties, and describe 
the officinal plant. 
4. Describe the drupe, utricle, follicle, and siliqua, with 
examples. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
Standard number of Marks, 100. 
1. State what you know respecting Hydrastis Cana¬ 
densis. 
2. On what does the efficacy of _ Eyoscgamus^ niger 
depend F State the theories entertained respecting its 
employment. 
3. State the source of the olibanum of commerce, 
adducing reasons for the assertion. 
4. Write a brief account of recent cinchona cultivation. 
The Prize of Books. 
The President next announced that the Prize of 
Books had been awarded to Mr. George Claridge 
Druce, of Northampton. 
The following were the questions for examina¬ 
tion :— 
Prize of Books. 
State the best method of dispensing the following 
prescriptions, assign the reasons for the same, and write 
the labels in suitable language:— 
p. Potasses Carb. gr. x. 
Potass® Nitrat. gr. xxx. 
Pulv. Sacchari gj. 
01. Amygdal. 5iij - 
Sp. Ammon. Aromat. 5ij. 
Aqu. Destill, ad. giv. 
M. ft. Mistura. 
Capt. quartam partem mane vespereque vel srepius 
raucitate urgente. 
P Ferri Redact, gr. iv. 
Quin® Disulph. gr. j. 
Ext. Nucis Yomic® gr. •§. 
Ext. Cannab. Ind. gr. 4. 
M. ft. pil. j. 
bis die sumend nisi cephalalgia superven. dein capt. j. 
semel in die tantum. 
Mitte xx. in argent involv. 
State the proportions of the materials, temperature of 
the water, and time ordered for preparing the following- 
infusions, and suggest any improvement that might be 
made :—Buchu, Cusso, Quassia. 
Describe and explain the P. B. process for making 
Acidum Tannicum. 
State the ingredients used in and the method oi pre¬ 
paring Emplast. Cerat. Saponis. 
Enumerate the preparations of the Pharmacopoeia 
which contain lead. 
The Bell Scholarships. 
The President then said that two Junior Bell 
Scholarships had been awarded this year, one to Mr. 
Sidney Plowman, of Boston, the other to Mr. Edward 
Lawrance Cleaver, of Oxford Street, London. It 
would be noticed that the honours were equally 
divided between town and country. 
The requisite number of marks was not obtained 
by either of the competitors for the Senior Scliolar- 
ship. 
The questions for examination were as follows . 
