August 13 , 1870.] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1S70. 
PHARMACEUTICAL EXHIBITIONS. 
The practice of holding periodical exhibitions ap¬ 
pears to be gaining favour not only in this country, 
but also in America, for a circular just received from 
Mr. J. Faris Moore, announces that at the eighteenth 
annual meeting of the American Pharmaceutical 
Association, to be held in Baltimore, on the 13th 
September next, there will be an exhibition of objects 
relating to Pharmacy and the Collateral Sciences. 
It adds that the exhibition has become a prominent 
and interesting feature of the Association’s annual 
meeting, constituting an exponent of the progress of 
chemical and pharmaceutical industry, besides afford¬ 
ing an excellent opportunity for the manufacturer 
and wholesale dealer to make his name and goods 
known to the trade. 
Following the precedent established at Nottingham 
and Nonrich, the Liverpool Local Committee of the 
British Pharmaceutical Conference has decided to 
hold an exhibition of objects relating to Pharmacy, 
or having a special interest for members of the drug 
trade, during the meeting which is to commence on 
Tuesday, the 13th of September, under the presi¬ 
dency of Mr. Stoddart. The central position of 
Liverpool, its commercial importance, and the prox¬ 
imity of large chemical manufactories, constitute 
special reasons for holding such an exhibition there. 
The objects which it is desirable should be repre¬ 
sented are— 
1. Novelties or improvements in pharmaceutical pro¬ 
cesses, including apparatus and utensils for evaporation, 
distillation, pulverization, displacement, filtration, etc. 
Applications of gas and steam are especially desired. 
Models or drawings will also be eligible. 
2. Instruments intended for use in chemical investiga¬ 
tions, such as apparatus for volumetric analysis, spectro¬ 
scopes, polarizing apparatus for testing the purity of 
pharmaceutical preparations, etc. 
3. Microscopes, microscopic accessories and objects. 
4. New medicines and medical appliances, as galvanic 
and electro-magnetic machines, enema-syringes, etc. 
5. Illustrations of general business fittings and ar¬ 
rangements for dispensing. 
6. Improved dispensing appliances, as bottles, boxes 
for pills and powders, labels, etc. 
7. Poison bottles, poison labels, etc. Illustrations of 
precautions against mistake, either by dispenser or pa¬ 
tient. 
8. Improved preparations for the administration of 
medicines. This class would include methods for dis¬ 
guising nauseous remedies by means of capsules, also the 
various coatings of pills, also improved suppositories and 
pessaries, liquors and other substitutes for alcoholic tinc¬ 
tures. Artificial mineral waters. 
9. Specimens of drugs or chemicals remarkable for fine 
quality, or for other reasons. Illustrations, botanical or 
mineral, of the sources of medicines. 
10. Foreign preparations, proprietary or otherwise. 
11. Illustrations of adulterations, and the means of 
detecting them. 
12. Improved dietetic preparations. 
13. Books, English or foreign, relating to pharmacy 
or the collateral sciences. 
14. Historical relics, having an interest in connection 
with pharmacy, or its cultivators, as portraits, auto¬ 
graphs, etc. 
15. Any improvements within the scope of the drug 
trade, or consistent with it, but which are not embraced 
by previous classes. 
The following Regulations are to be observed — 
Objects for exhibition are to be delivered at Liverpool 
free of carriage on or before September 8th, advice being- 
sent at the same time by post, and an invoice of their 
value, stating whether intended for sale or not; and 
descriptive accounts written on one side of the paper 
only should accompany all articles sent. The Committee 
will take charge of unpacking and re-packing articles 
sent for exhibition, but whilst every care will be taken, 
they cannot be responsible for damage. The Committee 
reserve the right to decline any objects they may con¬ 
sider unsuitable. 
A report upon the Exhibition will be prepared by 
a Special Committee, and published in the ‘ Proceed¬ 
ings of the British Pharmaceutical Conference,’ and 
intending exhibitors should apply at once to the 
Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. Davies, Royal Institution, 
Liverpool. 
A similar exhibition is now being held at New¬ 
castle, in connection with the British MedicaFAsso¬ 
ciation, and, among other objects of interest to medi¬ 
cal men, new drugs, chemicals, and preparations of 
food are represented by several well-known phar¬ 
macists. 
CHEMISTS’ WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
For some time past considerable activity has been 
manifested by the local authorities of Islington, in 
reference to incorrect weights and measures, and 
recently eighty-four persons were fined. In most 
instances there appears to have been no intention to 
defraud, but it is worth noticing that there were no 
less than sixteen chemists among those who were 
fined. It appears, according to a statement in the 
‘ Grocer,’ that one of those who suggested greater 
activity on the part of the inspectors was a chemist, 
and that he was also one of the first victims of the 
course he had suggested. 
THE YEAR-BOOK OF PHARMACY. 
We acknowledge the receipt of a specimen-page of 
this projected work, and are glad to find that there 
is a steady progress towards its actual publication. 
The Executive Committee of the British Pharma¬ 
ceutical Conference reported last year, at the Exeter 
Meeting, that, in considering whether the compila¬ 
tion and issue of such a work would be desirable, it 
was felt that since similar works, in connection 
with various sciences, are published in most other 
countries, and are found to advance knowledge bene¬ 
ficially, Great Britain should not be without such 
a yearly report. It was the opinion of the Com¬ 
mittee that the publication of a work of the kind 
