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March 29, 137S ] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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EXAMINATIONS IN LONDON. 
March 19 th, 20th, and 21st, 1873. 
Present—Messrs. Allchin, Barnes, Brown, Carteighe, 
Cracknell, Davenport, Edwards, Gale, Haselden, Linford, 
and Martindale. 
Dr. Greenhow was present on the 21st, on behalf of 
the Privy Council. 
MAJOR EXAMINATION. 
Four candidates presented themselves, of whom one 
failed. The following three passed, and were declared 
duly qualified to be registered as “ Pharmaceutical 
Chemists— 
*Colling, Robert.Stoekton-on-Tee3. 
Dunn, Henry.Shipley. 
Botterill, G.orge Thomas .Boston. 
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. 
The Certificates presented by the under-mentioned 
we re received in lieu of the Preliminary Examination:— 
Certificate of the College of Preceptors. 
Price, Robert John.Wrexham. 
Certificate of the Royal Colleye of Surgeons. 
Dawson, George Alan .Hanley. 
Certificates of the University of Cambridge. 
Basker, John Anthony .Grantham. 
Clarke, Herbert .Lowestoft. 
Green, Arthur.Halifax. 
Hands, Henry Joseph.Chipping Campden. 
Certificate of the University oj Durham. 
Marshall, John Colville.York. 
Certificates of the University of Oxford. 
Cotterell, Edward .Weymouth. 
Currah, George Ingersoll .London. 
Hulland, Charles Richard.Bath. 
Phillips, Frank Leslie .Birmingham. 
MINOR EXAMINATION. 
ftabmtial ®nmsatficms. 
Sixty candidates presented themselves, of w r hom twenty- 
one failed. The following thirty-nine passed, and were 
declared duly qualified to be registered as “ Chemists and 
Druggists— 
*Tooke, George Stannard .Norwich. 
rt' (*Hunt, Freeman William ..London. 
(§* C*Severs, Samuel Thomas.'..Leeds. 
*Bramley, William .Uppingham. 
_• (*Askew, John .Grange-over-Sands. 
g, ■< *Blackmore, James .Doncaster. 
w (.*Hod ges, Edwin Goodail.Bristol. 
Thorp, John .Manchester. 
Roberts, William .London. 
Shrimpton, Frederick George ...London. 
g (Bennett, Henry Charles .Leigh, Lancashire. 
w X Scott, Thomas Alexander .London. 
*5 ( Clement, Joseph ..Coleford. 
£ l Gould, Robert George.Poole. 
C Adams, Richard .Market Drayton. 
g* 1 Ward, William Edwin .Nottingham. 
Cox, William Dennis.Grantham. 
Kitchen, William .Kendal. 
Wilson, Richard.Hull. 
Laycock, John .Skipton. 
Roach, Herbert William .London. 
Cartwright, William Adam .Hyde. 
Dixon, Daniel.Preston. 
Smithard, Herbert Henry.Guernsey. 
Walker, William.Stockport. 
Horsfield, Robert Francis William. Walworth Road. 
Basker, John Anthony .Grantham. 
Lockwood, Charles Henry.Dorking. 
Lawson, Edward James.Whitstable. 
( Barnes, William James .Dover. 
§.-< Pownall, Thomas .Mold. 
w L Prettejohn, Robert Froude .Torquay. 
Tripp, Zeno.Plymouth. 
Aris, George Henry .Wellingborough. 
Currah, George Ingersoll .London. 
| C Cronkshaw, John .Manchester. 
.f C Matthews, Ernest . Royston. 
Gibbs, Henry .Aylesbury. 
Stephens, Henry Isaac .Bristol. 
The above names are arranged in order of merit. 
* Passed with Honours. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The ninth general meeting was held at the Royal Insti¬ 
tution, March 15th; the President, E. Davies, Esq., F.C.S., 
in the chair. 
Mr. Edmund B. Ewart, B.A., was elected a member of 
the Association. 
The following donations were announced:—‘Proceed¬ 
ings of the American Pharmaceutical Association for 1872,’ 
‘ The New York Druggists’ Circular,’ current numbers 
of the Pharmaceutical Journal. 
Mr. A. H. Mason, F.C.S., showed a beautiful specimen of 
guaranine made by Mr. J. Williams, and gave some 
particulars of his process for producing it. 
Mr. Samuel Shaw Brown then read the paper for the 
evening, on “ The Manufacture and Relative Therapeu¬ 
tic Characteristics of the Lints of Commerce.” 
A discussion on the subject of the paper followed, in 
which the President, Messrs. Brown, Abraham, Shaw, 
Mason, Tanner, and Hallawell took part, and the pro¬ 
ceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to Mr. Brown. 
The following paper on guarana was read at the meet¬ 
ing on the 13th ult., by Mr. J. Hallawell. 
Guarana. 
Some time ago, on the occasion of Mr. T. H. Abraham 
presenting to this Association a specimen of guarana, I 
promised to give a notice at a future meeting of the his¬ 
tory and uses of this medicine, with which I was familiar 
during my residence in Brazil, where it is extensively 
employed, having in fact a place in the Pharmacopoeia 
used in that country. 
Mr. Tanner not being able to read his paper this evening- 
enables me to choose the present occasion to fulfil my promise. 
When last in Paris I was fortunate enough to meet 
with a complete series of specimens of guarana, including 
seeds and medicinal powder, which were kindly placed at 
my disposal by M. Rigaud, one of the present proprietors 
of Grimault’s establishment there. This gentleman also 
favoured me with a copy of a paper on guarana, written 
by his partner, Dr. Leconte, who had devoted considerable 
time and attention to the study of this product, and I 
found this paper so complete in itself that I obtained per¬ 
mission to translate what I thought proper for the present 
occasion, and I have drawn very largely on Dr. Leconte’s 
composition in the following remarks, some paragraphs 
being almost a literal translation of his. 
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