January 11, 1873.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
555 
Mr. Sutton said tliat there was a difference made 
with regard to those attending the lectures as to the fee 
which they paid according to whether they were con¬ 
nected with the Society or not. Now the lady students 
would naturally fall into the latter class, and the ques¬ 
tion was whether a regulation could he made that all 
persons competing for the prizes should he connected 
with the Society. As far as Mr. Hampson's proposition 
was concerned, he did not see how they could stop the 
ladies from competing under the existing regulations. 
Mr. Radley thought it was quite a privilege given to 
the ladies in allowing them to attend the lectures, and 
hie certainly should he averse to holding out any induce¬ 
ment to ladies becoming competitors in the trade. It 
was not the province of the Society to do anything of 
that kind, and rather than go on in that direction, he 
-should prefer retracing the step they had already taken. 
Mr. Atherton said there was some excuse for ladies 
seeking a medical education, but there was none for their 
-desiring to become chemists and druggists. He should 
therefore vote against the resolution. 
Mr. Urwick said he should support it. They had no 
.right to look into the future and speculate as to what 
was to happen hereafter. He believed it would have a 
very beneficial effect if some of the ladies did take prizes. 
Mr. Williams said when he voted in favour of ladies 
becoming students, he had no idea of their desiring to 
-attend the lectures for anything except their own infor¬ 
mation, and he certainly was averse to their competing 
for the prizes. 
Mr. Bottle said Mr. Schacht had asked whether ladies 
were to be fully admitted or half-admitted. As far as he 
-understood, they were only half admitted, availing them¬ 
selves of theprivilege of attending the lectures; but if they 
desired to become students and obtain all the privileges 
of the Society, they must become students and pay their 
.annual subscriptions accordingly, as provided by the 
bye-laws. They would then be in a fair position to 
compete. 
Mr. Sutton said prizes were now given to those who 
were not registered students of the Society. 
Mr. Bottle said if that were done it was a mistake, 
it was not intended when the prizes were instituted. 
He was most desirous not to place the ladies in any 
different position to those of the opposite sex, but on the 
other hand, if they were desirous of becoming pharma¬ 
cists, they must do it on the same footing as the male 
students. He believed the prizes were intended for those 
connected with the Society, and if any one else had been 
allowed to compete it was plainly an error which ought 
.not to be perpetuated. He would ask Mr. Hampson, 
■therefore, to advise his lady friends, if they desired to 
.compete for the prizes, to become registered students of 
the Society. 
Mr. Shaw said he did not think the bye-law quoted 
by Mr. Bottle was binding at the present time. 
Mr. Hampson, in reply, said Mr. Bottle professed him- 
-self anxious as far as he could to act justly in this matter, 
but he did not think that the lady students were entitled to 
compete for prizes, because they were really not genuine 
students in the same light as others. This was a mis¬ 
take on his part, inasmuch as the three ladies now in 
attendance had already undergone the test of the Pre¬ 
liminary examination, and were going through the 
.regular course which male students usually took. Con¬ 
sequently it was not any amateur attempt on them part, 
but a genuine desire to obtain a position in pharmacy. 
On these grounds, therefore, he claimed Mr. Bottle’s 
support. These young ladies were not studying for 
a mere pastime, but with a view of earning their daily 
bread. With regard to there being some prospective 
changes to be made in the educational arrangements 
hereafter, it was mere nonsense to set that up as an ob¬ 
stacle on the present occasion, there being no positive 
-connection whatever between the two things. The 
ladies in question were students of the Pharmaceutical 
Society; they were anxious to gain all the information 
they could, and they simply wanted the common pri¬ 
vileges given to the other students. 
The President said it was no doubt a mistake to 
allow those not connected with the Society to compete 
for the prizes, but because one mistake had been com¬ 
mitted, that was no reason why they should go on and 
commit another. 
On putting the question to the vote, the result was as 
follows:— 
For: Messrs. Baynes, Brown, Hampson, Schacht, 
Shaw, Sutton and Urwick. 
Against: Messrs.' Atherton, Betty, Bottle, Greenish, 
Haselden, Owen, Radley, Stoddart and Williams. 
The motion was therefore lost. Mr. Hills was pre¬ 
sent but did not vote. 
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LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The fifth general meeting of the session was held on 
the evening of December 19th, the President, Mr. E. 
Davies, F.C.S., in the chair. 
A discussion took place on the decision of the magis¬ 
trate the preceding day, in a prosecution under the 
Adulteration of Food Act, in which the President, Mr. 
Abraham, and Mr Shaw took part. Mr. Shaw stated 
that the magistrate’s ruling was directly opposed to that 
in a previous case. The President repeated his convic¬ 
tion that the Act would prove powerless unless the 
vendor was made responsible for any adulteration 
whether he were aware of it or not. 
The President called attention to a new quinimetric 
process by P. Carles, published in the December number 
of the ‘ Journal of the Chemical Society,’ and mentioned 
some experiments he had made with a view to determine 
its success. He also stated that he had tried a process 
contained in the same number of the Journal for testing 
for nitro-benzol in essential oil of almonds, which was 
simple and had proved in his hands perfectly successful. 
Mr. A. E. Tanner was glad that the President had 
tried the process mentioned for testing strength of barks ; 
he had seen it described in the ‘ Year Book of Pharmacy,’ 
and felt a wish that the method should be tried. 
The President said that he had found the use of the 
air-pump of great advantage in his experiments, in 
Carles’s process, as the causing a vacuum in the receiver 
of the percolator had facilitated the extraction of the 
matter very much. 
MIDLAND COUNTIES CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIA¬ 
TION. 
A meeting of the Midland Counties Chemists Associa¬ 
tion was held on Monday evening, December 30th, at 
the rooms of the Association, Quadrant Chambers, Lew 
Street. The chair was taken by Mr. J. Lucas, pharma¬ 
ceutical chemist. A paper by Mr. H. W. Jones, on 
‘‘Yellow Cinchona Bark,” in which the subject was ably 
treated, was read by the author, who gave some interest¬ 
ing information about some new alkaloids, etc. 
Ijrom&ings af Scientific Satieties, 
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE COLLEGE OF 
PHYSICIANS. 
Disinfection in Connection with Small-fox. 
BY CHARLES R. C. TICHBORNE, F.C.S., M.R.I.A. J 
Eon. and Corresponding Member of the Chicago and 
Philadelphia Colleges of Pharmacy , etc. 
In considering the contagious nature of small-pox and 
the value of antiseptics in connection therewith, 1 will 
ask you to bear with me for a short>period, whilst I con« 
