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•alarm if ladies were elected to membership. It did 
not at all follow that they would be elected to the 
Council table or the presidential chair; though if the 
majority of the members desired to confer that honour 
-upon them, he saw no reason why they should not be 
elected. There was no possibility of this being the case 
at present, and he thought that was all the answer such 
an argument deserved. The question was one of ab¬ 
stract right. If a lady had a right to occupy the posi¬ 
tion of a chemist and druggist, it certainly seemed rather 
small on their part to deny them the privileges and great 
advantages of belonging to the Society if they wished. 
He would suggest to Mr. Hampson to withdraw the 
name for the present, and perhaps when the matter had 
been more looked into, it would be seen that it was not so 
alarming a proposal as some gentlemen seemed to think. 
Mr* Hampson said he would accept this suggestion, 
hoping that the matter would be reintroduced before 
long. 
Hr. Ur wick acquiescing, the motion was withdrawn. 
Election of Associates. 
The following gentleman having passed the Modified 
•examination, and being in business, was elected an 
Associate in Business of the Society :— 
Platt, William.Stonycroft, Liverpool. 
. The following gentlemen, having passed their respec¬ 
tive examinations, were elected {Associates of the So- 
‘Ciety: — 
Minor. 
Capstick, John William.Lancaster. 
Culverwell, John Sayer.Windsor. 
Cunnington, Richard Elliott .. Bristol. 
Davidson, William ..Edinburgh. 
Dymott, Frank.Southampton. 
Farr, Joseph.Peterborough. 
Flinders, Matthew Tom.London. 
Kershaw, Joseph Henry.Manchester. 
King, Horatio Alfred .Norwich. 
Lester, Henry .Northampton. 
Lindsay, George William ... .Sunderland. 
Litten, Henry .Sittingbourne. 
Marjason, John Morriss.Dublin. 
Norton, Thomas .Stafford. 
Parrott, John .Norwood. 
Smith, Thomas Henry.York. 
Modified. 
Barton, Septimus William.Manchester. 
Election of Apprentices and Students. 
. The following having passed the Preliminary examina¬ 
tion, were elected Apprentices or Students of the 
Society:— 
Collier, Philip Davies.Reading. 
Gibbons, George .Adwy. 
Gilling, John Thomas.Ripon. 
Hitchcock, James.Whittington Moor. 
Sainsbury, Allan Fox.London. 
Stables, William Skilbeck .... Scarborough. 
Finance. 
The report of this committee was received and adopted, 
•and sundry payments, including £100 for furnishing the 
new premises of the North British Branch, were ordered 
to be made. 
Benevolent Fund. 
The report of this committee was received and 
^adopted. 
The result of the election of annuitants on the fund, 
which took place on the 25th ultimo, was reported to be 
.as follows:— 
Henson. 2557 
Wilkes. 181 [ 
Kennett.874 
Informal Votes .118 
The Treasurer was directed to pay the two annuitants 
recently elected their annuities to Christmas. 
A grant of £10 was made to a registered chemist and 
druggist at Hamilton, Scotland. 
A similar grant was made to George B. Kennett, 
of Clapham, the unsuccessful candidate at the last elec¬ 
tion of annuitants. 
Library, Museum and Laboratory. 
The report of the Library, Museum and Laboratory 
Committee was received. The following books were 
ordered to be purchased :— 
Wagner's ‘ Chemical Technology.’ 
Simmonds’s ‘ Science and Commerce.’ 
Cooley’s ‘ Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts,’ 
‘ Jahresbericht fiber die Pharmacognosie,’ 1871. 
‘ Pharmacopoea Rossica.’ 
‘ Farmacopoea Espafiola.’ 
Ferrand’s ‘Aide Memoire de Pharmacie.’ 
Appointment of Curator of the Museum. 
It was resolved that the salary attached to this office 
be £150 per annum, and that the duties be as follows :— 
“ Hours nine to five, continuously. Saturdays, nine 
to two. 
“ To arrange the Museum, and keep the same in good 
order. 
“ To be responsible for the securing and safe keeping 
of all the specimens. 
“To mount all specimens which the Committee may 
direct. 
“ To clean and label the bottles, drawers, etc., and re¬ 
new the specimens as often as may be required. 
“ To examine the specimens for the students, and to 
keep them in proper condition. 
“To prepare and maintain in fall efficiency a cata¬ 
logue for the museum.” 
“To form and keep in order an Herbarium of medicinal 
plants. 
“ To be present at the evening meetings, and assist as 
far as possible in preparing for them, in conjunction 
with the Professors. 
“ To report monthly to the Committee upon all 
matters connected with the museum.” 
Three gentlemen who had been selected by the 
Committee out of a large number, were then called 
successively into the council-room, and after a few 
questions had been put to each by the President, 
a ballot was taken, which [resulted in the election 
of Mr. Edward Morell Holmes, of London, pharma¬ 
ceutical chemist, to the office. 
Jacob Bell Memorial Scholarships. 
.The following were the recommendations of the Com¬ 
mittee appointed to consider this subject:— 
“1. Eligibility.—Candidates must be Registered 
Students or Apprentices of the Society under twenty- 
one years of age, and have passed not less, or been 
engaged for not less, than three years in the phar¬ 
macy of a Registered Pharmaceutical Chemist or 
Chemist and Druggist. 
“ 2. Subjects of Examination.— Latin: —Yirgil; the 
three first books of the 2Eneid; Latin prescriptions; 
translations of Latin into English and English into 
Latin; translations from any Latin pharmacopoeia, 
and parsing. French or German. English: —Com¬ 
position and parsing. Arithmetic: —The four first 
simple and compound rules, fractions, and decimals; 
the British and metrical systems of weights and 
measures. Elementary Chemistry , Pharmacy and 
Botany. 
“ The examinations to be wholly in writing, and in 
the case of any candidate unable to attend No. 17, 
Bloomsbury Square, to be conducted under the same 
conditions as the ‘ Preliminary,’ and such safeguards 
as the Council may from time to time deem ex¬ 
pedient, and that the papers written by the candi¬ 
date be numbered, not named. 
