October 12, 1872.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
299 
Chemistry .—A course of thirty lectures by Mr. Coom- 
ber, F.C.S., on “Inorganic Chemistry,” every Tuesday, 
•at 8 r.M., commencing October loth. * A course of thirty 
lectures by Mr. Coomber, E.C.S., on “ Organic 
•Chemistry,” every Thursday, at 8 r.M., commencing 
October 17th. 
Botany .—A course of six lectures by Mr. Leipner, on 
41 Botany, Physiological, Economic and Systematic,” 
every Monday, at 7.30 r.M., commencing October 14th. 
At the conclusion of this series, that is in May next, an 
examination will be held in each subject, at w'hich every 
student is required to present himself. 
Tickets for either of the two subjects, that is, for 
Chemistry or for Botany, will be five shillings for mem¬ 
bers and associates, provided the holder complies with 
the condition of presenting himself for examination, and 
shall have attended not less than 25 lectures in each 
course, in accordance with the regulations of the classes ; 
if not, the fee will be ten shillings. Students are earnestly 
advised to abstain from entering for more courses than 
they can reasonably expect to follow up. 
By the renewed consent of Mr. Stoddart, the Council 
is also able to annour ce a series of lessons on materia 
medica, adapted to the requirements of those associates 
of the society who are preparing for the examinations at 
Bloomsbury Square. Mr. Stoddart declines to accept 
any payment for his labours, but agrees with the rest of 
the council in the propriety of charging a fee of £1. Is. 
for attendance at these lessons, the proceeds being 
arranged to go to the augmentation of the fund to meet 
the expenses of a pharmaceutical museum. 
The lessons will be on Friday evenings at 9 o’clock, 
'Commencing October 18th. 
Tickets for this course to be obtained only at Mr. 
Stoddart’s, North Street. 
Mr. Coomber is also prepared to offer a course of 
practical laboratory instruction on Friday evenings at 
the laboratory in Nelson Street. 
■ The fee for this instruction is £1. Is. per quarter, and 
the tickets are to be obtained of Mr. Coomber only. 
Arrangements are also in the course of completion for 
the renewal of the monthly evening meetings that ap¬ 
peared to give general satisfaction in previous sessions. 
The first of the series is announced for Friday, the 11th, 
when the President, Mr. Townsend, will deliver an ad¬ 
dress and introduce for discussion the subject of Phar¬ 
maceutical Education. 
IJrm&ittp fit jjkttntifif Iktidits. 
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILADEL¬ 
PHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
Edward Parrish. 
An adjourned meeting of the Alumni Association 
and graduates generally of the Philadelphia College of 
Pharmacy was held in the hall of the college; Mr. C. 
L. Eberle occupied the chair. 
The committee appointed on the 17th September to 
draft resolutions reported as follows :— 
“At a meeting of the Alumni Association and gradu¬ 
ates of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, held Sep¬ 
tember 17th, 1872, the following memorial, expressive 
-of our sad bereavement in the death of Professor Edward 
Parrish, was directed to be presented to the family of 
our beloved friend and teacher, towards whom our hearts 
•are drawn in tender sympathy, who have been so sud¬ 
denly bereft of their life-long companion and friend, and 
are stricken with a grief too full for utterance and almost 
overwhelming. We feel that there is not one here in 
this meeting, of those who have been privileged to sit 
under his instruction, who can but bear testimony to 
fhe great and almost irreparable loss which the profession 
and general community have sustained, and to the per¬ 
sonal sense of a vacancy in the circle of our truest and 
dearest friends. 
“ To this community in which he has so long laboured, 
and maintained an untarnished reputation, where in¬ 
delibly are written the marks of his earnestness, inte- 
grity, philanthropy and public spirit, his memory will 
long be green. 
“ The graduates and students of the College will sorely 
miss their genial, warm-hearted and fatherly teacher, 
who was so approachable, and so readily entered into 
sympathy with them in the difficulties that beset their 
paths. 
“ The profession over'this broad land will acknowledge 
and deplore his loss, and wherever his professional merit 
has been recognized, or his name introduced, all must 
unite in regretting the dispensation that has removed 
him thus early from the field of his usefulness. 
“But while we thus express our feeling of a common sor¬ 
row, we have the great consolation of all Christian hearts 
to know that he was calmly prepared for and anticipated 
the sad event, that he was surrounded by those who, 
while strangers, ministered tenderly to the necessities of 
his last illness, and, that soothed and sustained by an 
unfaltering trust, he approached his God “like one that 
draws the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down 
to pleasant dreams.” 
The above paper was unanimously adopted. 
IpTlmettterjr anij f;tto fwmMitp. 
The Neav Licensing Act. 
At the Royton Petty Sessions, Edward Whittaker, 
druggist, Shaw Lane, near Oldham, obtained a licence 
to sell liquors and sweet made wines. Subsequently 
Mr. Whittaker asked if he could keep his shop open 
for the sale of drugs during hours in which the sale 
of liquors was prohibited, as his was the only druggist’s 
shop in the neighbourhood. The Bench refused to give 
him permission to do so .—Manchester Guardian. 
Death from an Overdose of “Infants’ Cordial.” 
An inquest has been held at the St. Stephen’s 
Tavern, St. Stephen’s Street, Salford, by Mr. F. 
Price, on the body of Samuel Riley, a child six weeks 
old, the son of Mary and Richard Riley, living at 26, 
King Street, Salford. On Wednesday afternoon the 
mother of deceased sent another daughter, about six 
years of age, to the shop of Mr. O’Brien, chemist, 1, 
Gravel Lane, to purchase a pennyworth of “ infants’ 
cordial.” With the mixture printed directions were 
given, but, in consequence of the mother being unable to 
read, she did not know what w r as the proper quantity to 
give the child. About half-past three o’clock she gave 
the deceased, wffio had been a “cross” child from its 
birth, a teaspoonful of the cordial. At half-past seven 
o’clock the mother and child wont to bed, and the mother 
soon afterward fell asleep. She awoke at one o’clock the 
next morning, and the child w r as lying dead by her side 
in bed. 
The coroner asked Mr. O’Brien whether there w r as any 
recommendation by the Pharmaceutical Society with 
reference to medicine being supplied to children. 
Mr. O’Brien said that he was not aware that there had 
been such a recommendation. 
In summing up the evidence, the Coroner said that 
the mother of the deceased w'as evidently an ignorant 
woman. It was for the jury to say whether they 
believed that the child had died from an overdose 
of cordial. The deceased had had a teaspoonful of the 
cordial, wffiile the directions said that a child of its age 
should only have from five to ten drops. If the jury 
were not satisfied that that had been the cause of death, 
