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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
[July 2, 1870. 
After three preliminary meetings, a General Meeting 
was held on May 7th, 1869, which was numerously at¬ 
tended, and there were appointed the President, Trea¬ 
surer, Hon. Secretaries, and Council, who were entrusted 
more especially with the preparation of a Dispensing and 
Retail Price List. In compliance therewith the Council 
held no less than nine consecutive meetings, which were 
followed by a General Meeting, and the price list, as it 
now stands, was adopted and circulated to each member 
of the Association; a charge of Is. per copy was made to 
non-members beyond the precincts of Birmingham. 
In the course of these meetings efforts were also made 
to unite the members of the trade in the one common 
object; your Council canvassed the whole of the town, 
when the number of enrolled members reached just over 
one hundred; also, about 250 chemists of the neighbour¬ 
hood were invited, by circular, etc., to join, and upwards 
of thirty of these sent in their names and subscriptions. 
An invitation from the Pharmaceutical Conference was 
received and acknowledged for a deputation from this 
Association, but its formation being too recent, it was 
deemed advisable to decline. The supper at Nock’s 
Hotel was not so well attended as desirable, but a very 
pleasant evening was spent by those present. 
Your Council have had their attention called to the 
objectionable practice of a small shopkeeper vending 
paregoric, but on this occasion could not take further 
proceedings. 
A deputation was appointed to wait upon the Borough 
Inspection Committee, relative to the exorbitant charge 
for the licence for the sale and storage of petroleum, un¬ 
der the new Act, -which took place on December 22nd, 
1869, and although letters were read from Liverpool, 
Manchester, and Bristol, stating the low terms for the 
licence in those places, the Borough Inspection Commit¬ 
tee refused to make any alteration. 
An appeal from the Birmingham Chemists’ Assistants’ 
Association, applying for accommodation to hold their 
weekly meetings, was made to the Council, when it was 
unanimously resolved that arrangements should be en¬ 
tered into with the Temperance Hall Committee to grant 
them the use of a room for that purpose for a period of 
six months, ending June, 1870. Action was also taken 
in unison with other Associations objecting to any legis¬ 
lation interfering with the storing and dispensing of 
poisons. 
The Association has been the medium of compelling a 
self-styled chemist and druggist to take down his sign¬ 
board, and the Secretaries, with the consent of the Pre¬ 
sident, deemed it expedient to caution the members 
against being duped by a vendor of questionable vermin 
eradicator. 
Your Council now retire from their duties, which they 
have endeavoured to carry out faithfully, and hope that 
their successors will be able to accomplish much more 
for the welfare of Chemists and Druggists, and for this 
Association in particular. 
The election of officers for the ensuing year, and the 
consideration of Mr. Arblaster’s letter to the Home Secre¬ 
tary on the amount charged for the petroleum licence in 
Birmingham, formed the chief business of the meeting. 
Joseph Lucas, 4, Calmore Row, 1 ^ c 
A. Stirling Grieves, 16, Spiceal Street, / ±lon ’ ® ecs ' 
June, 1870. 
NOTTINGHAM AND NOTTS CHEMISTS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
The adjourned Annual Meeting of this Society was 
held at the Exchange Rooms, on Friday evening, May 
27th; the President in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been 
adopted, the Hon. Secretary then read the following 
Report. 
In presenting their first Annual Report, the Coimcil of 
the Nottingham and Notts Chemists’ Association take 
the opportunity of congratulating the members upon the 
very satisfactory position of the Society generally, as 
well as financially. 
The Society was established in December, 1868, for 
the purpose of advancing the interests of chemistry and 
pharmacy in the district, for providing means for the 
scientific education of the Assistants and Apprentices, 
and for the encouragement of feelings of mutual good¬ 
will and esteem amongst its members. 
The Inaugural Meeting was held at the Exchange 
Rooms in February, 1869. 
The number of Members enrolled at and since that 
meeting, was 53, and of Associates, 48. 
During the Session which now terminates, several 
very interesting papers have been read:— 
On February 12, “The President’s Address.” 
On March 12, “ The evening was devoted to the dis¬ 
cussion of the Pharmacy Act.” 
On April 8, Address on “Pharmaceutical Education.” 
H. S. Evans, Esq. 
On May 14, A paper “ On the Results of Examination 
of Some Samples of Tincture of Opium.” Mr. Mayfield. 
A paper “ On Botany and its Relations to Pharmacy.” 
Mr. Rayner. 
On October 19, “ Address,” by the President. 
On November 19, “Hints on Dispensing.” Mr. R. 
Fitzhugh. 
On December 10, “French Pharmacy.” Mr. May- 
field. 
On February 11, 1870, “ On Accidental Poisoning and 
the Precautions Adopted for its Prevention, with Special 
Reference to the Proposed Bye-laws of the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society.” 
On March 11, “Adjourned Discussion on the Subject 
of the Previous Meeting.” 
On April 8, An address on “ The Amusement and Re¬ 
creation to be Derived from, and the Advantages Accru¬ 
ing to the Pharmaceutist by the Study of Botany.” T. 
Bumie, Esq. 
The meetings have afforded opportunities for the dis¬ 
cussion of matters of interest to the profession generally, 
—such as the Pharmacy Act, the operations of the Petro¬ 
leum Act, etc. 
A deputation was appointed to wait on the Watch 
Committee with a view to modify the local regulations 
of this Act; the result of which was satisfactory. 
A lengthened discussion took place on the proposed 
compulsory regulations respecting the keeping of poisons, 
and a resolution was unanimously adopted against any 
compulsory measures in that direction, it being con¬ 
sidered that chemists did generally, in their ordinary 
course of business, adopt sufficient precaution for their 
own and the public safety. The resolution was for¬ 
warded to the Pharmaceutical Society. Your Council 
acknowledge, with gratitude, the kindness of the then 
Vice-President, now President, o¥ the Pharmaceutical 
Society, Mr. H. S. Evans, in coming from London to de¬ 
liver an address to the Society on such a subject as 
“ Pharmaceutical Education.” Such an address was very 
encouraging to a young Society, when coming from so 
high an authority. The Society, as a mark of their ap¬ 
preciation of Mr. Evans’s kindness, honoured themselves 
by electing that gentleman as their first honorary member. 
Amongst other donations made to the Society, not the 
least useful and interesting are a cabinet, containing 
materia medica specimens, from Messrs. Evans, Son, and 
Co., and a second one from Southall, Son, and Dymond. 
These cabinets are of great service to the students, and 
;he Council have consented that they should circulate 
amongst the members for the use of the Associates, under 
certain restrictions. 
Arrangements were made by which the collection of 
books, formerly in the possession of the old Society, 
were transferred to the new. Several valuable works, 
standard as well as elementary, have been added to the 
