May 17, 1873.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
915 
Treasurer’s Report.— 1872-3. 
Income. 
To Balance brought forward. 
„ Donations . 
,, Subscriptions—23 Members at 5s. 
» „ 22 ,, at 2 s. 6d . 
ji >, 7 ,, at 15, ... ... 
„ Mr. Currie’s Class, 15 Students at 5s. each 
„ Prize Fund (reserved) . 
„ Surplus Funds of Soirde. 
. „ Price-List Cash “in Secretary’s hands” 
Expenditure. 
By Books for Mr. Currie’s Class 
„ 23 Meetings for ,, 
,, Expenses for ,, 
,, Printers’ and Engravers’ Account 
„ Secretary’s Expenses . 
,, Post-Cards for Assistants’ Meetings 
„ Bent of Hall, etc. 
,, Janitor’s Fee . 
„ Balance in hand . 
£ s. d. 
0 12 6 
4 14 0 
5 15 0 
2 15 0 
0 7 0 
3 15 0 
0 11 3 
2 12 8 
7 8 0 
£28 10 5 
0 13 7 
1 14 6 
0 9 0 
5 17 6 
2 11 9 £ 
0 5 llj 
8 1 0 
1 1 0 
7 16 1 
£28 10 5 
The Secretary’s and Treasurer’s Reports having been 
adopted, the following motions were brought forward :— 
The President, having vacated his chair, moved—“That 
the following alterations and additions be made in the 
Rules :—Rule 1, instead of ‘ and shall have for its object 
the mutual improvement of its members, the better edu¬ 
cation of assistants and apprentices, and the general 
advancement of the interest of the profession and trade; ’ 
to read thus—‘ And shall have for its object the study of 
the science of chemistry, and other collateral sciences 
having a bearing upon pharmacy.’ ” 
The President briefly stated his reasons for making 
this motion, it being simply to remove the Association from 
the burden of taxation. This having been seconded and 
agreed to, he then moved the following as a new rule :— 
“No part of the Society’s funds shall be applied by way 
of dividend, gift, donation, or bonus to any of the mem¬ 
bers.” This was also agreed to. 
Mr. Fairlie then moved—First, “That the Council take 
steps to procure another place of meeting, in some central 
part of the city, which could be opened at certain hours 
as a reading-room, and used as a class-room, and for the 
meetings of the Association in the evenings.” Second, 
“ That the Secretary be instructed to convene a joint¬ 
meeting of the Council, and the Committee of the ‘ As¬ 
sistants’ Branch ’ early in September, to arrange the 
business of the session, including Syllabus of Lectures, 
Essays, Discussions, Classes, etc.” 
Both the motions were seconded by Mr. Murdoch, and 
finally adopted. The election of Office-bearers and 
Council was then proceeded with. The retiring Pre¬ 
sident (Mr. Thos. Davison) declining re-election, Mr. 
John Currie (Sauchiehall Street) was elected President. 
Mr. Wm. Whyte, Vice-President, Mr. Jos. A. Clarke, 
Secretary, Mr. William McKenzie, Treasurer. Council 
—Messrs. Daniel Fraser, Thos. Davison, Alex. Kinnin- 
mont, John Black, John Fenwick, Arch. Paterson, 
R. T. Dun, Robt. McDonald, Jas. M. Fairlie, W. S. 
Galbraith, R. Brodie, G. Garry. Auditors — Messrs. 
J. Hunter and J. Foster. 
Mtttbinp jof Srifirtifft jjtoiies. 
[BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
Meeting of the Executive Committee. 
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the British 
Pharmaceutical Conference was held on Wednesday, May 
7th, at 17, Bloomsbury Square. The chair was taken by 
Mr. Daniel Hanbury, and there were also present— 
Messrs. Clayton, Williams, Schacht, Attfield, and Moss. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and con¬ 
firmed. 
Year-Book .—The Secretary (Professor Attfield) reported 
that upon seeking to make arrangements, directly after, 
the meeting at Brighton, for the issue of the annual 
volume he found that the printers required an advance on 
former prices of per cent, for the greater part of the 
printing, paper, etc., and 8 per cent, on the binding, 
Dpon inquiry he became convinced that the proposed 
increase was a reasonable one and ventured to allow it 
without troubling the members of Committee to assemble, 
and decide the point. In September, Mr. C. H. Wood 
announced to the Executive that he had completed his 
portion of the MS. of the volume. Professor Attfield 
had also prepared by that time a list of the names and 
addresses of the 2000 members of the Conference, an. 
alphabetical list of the towns with the resident members, 
and a complete report of the transactions of the Conference- 
at the ninth annual meeting at Brighton. In compiling 
the latter he had been much assisted by the reports pub¬ 
lished in the Pharmaceutical Journal, and by the kind¬ 
ness of the authors of papers and speeches. The proof 
sheets were corrected as they came from the printers, the 
first part by Mr. Wood, and the second by himself and 
Assistant-Secretary. The volume was published at the end 
of December. 
Honorary Members .—The Secretary reported that he 
had officially communicated with the gentlemen who had 
been elected honorary members of the Conference at the 
Brighton meeting, and had since received the acknowledg¬ 
ments of those gentlemen. 
Bell and Hills Fund .—Professor Attfield reported that 
he had purchased and had had bound ten guineas’ worth 
of books, selected by himself in accordance with the wishes 
of the Brighton Chemists’ Association, and had presented 
them to that body in the name of the Committee. The 
Association had acknowledged their receipt in highly 
appreciative terms. 
Finance .—Professor Attfield reported that in November 
and December last he issued 1760 circulars requesting 
members to forward their subscription. About 1100 
subscriptions were forwarded in answer. In February, 
660 members were again asked for their subscriptions— 
210 responded ; in April the remaining 450 were a third 
time requested to remit and to that date about 50 or 60 
had done so. Of the 400 defaulters, 57 were three or 
more years in arrear; 114 owed for the current and 
previous and the previous year, and 229 for the current 
year only. With regard to the members who had not 
paid subscriptions for three or four years, the Professor said-' 
they were mostly gentlemen who resided in tows where 
the annual meetings were held, and who probably had 
not intended to subscribe to the Conference for more than 
the one year of their temporary interest in the association. 
Many members, however, who had avowedly joined for 
one year only, and who had not promptly paid the follow¬ 
ing year’s subscription, had been induced to continue 
membership on being appealed to by the Secretary or 
after receiving the various circulars issued during two or 
three years. The 57 members now alluded to had not 
responded to such appeals, and he proposed that to such 
members a special letter should be sent drawing attention 
to the rule respecting defaulters, and stating that if no 
answer were received within a given period (say ten days) 
the name of the member applied to would be struck off 
the roll by the Executive Committee. 
Mr. Clayton approved of the efforts of the Secretaries 
to induce members to retain their interest in the Con¬ 
ference, but thought that when such endeavours met with 
no response the connection should be severed. 
Mr. Williams concurred in this view. 
Professor Attfield said that as Secretary he fully appre¬ 
ciated and even fostered temporary interest in the Con¬ 
ference, of course also hoping that it might merge into 
permanent interest; but when men answered neither 
circulars nor letters year after year continued appeals 
would probably become troublesome to such members 
themselves and certainly gave useless trouble to the staff. 
