132 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. [Augugt 13, 1870. 
would further the best interests of pharmacy and 
pharmacists. It was considered that the necessary 
funds for the publication of this ‘ Year-Book ’ would 
be obtained if some five hundred new members 
joined the Conference, and we understand nearly that 
number of additions has already been obtained. With 
such a desirable object immediately before British 
pharmacists, we anticipate a still larger accession to 
the ranks of the Conference at Liverpool. 
The £ Year-Book ’ is to include notices of all phar¬ 
maceutical papers, new processes, preparations, anc. 
formulae published throughout the world. 
THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. 
It is with great pleasure we learn that Mr. Ernest 
Hart has been unanimously elected editor of this 
journal, which is the organ of the British Medical 
Association. As might have been expected, Mr. 
Hart’s claims were recognized and strongly urged by 
many leading members of the medical profession, 
and we congratulate the Association on having se¬ 
cured the services of so talented an editor to fill up 
the vacancy caused by Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson’s 
resignation. _ 
In another part of the Journal will be found the 
Act for regulating the Sale of Poisons in Ireland. It 
is simply an extension of the Act applying to Great 
Britain. _ 
Mr. H. Alder Smith has been elected Hesident 
Surgeon to Christ’s Hospital, in the room of Mr. Stone, 
resigned. Mr. Smith was formerly a pupil in the 
Laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society, and we 
are glad to find that the distinction he gained as a 
student there and elsewhere is being followed by 
practical success. 
Mr. Pouter, who was killed at the Hastings Sewage 
Works last week, was formerly a student in the La¬ 
boratory of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
The ‘ Times ’ is authorized to state, in answer to 
frequent inquiries, that the North German Govern¬ 
ment does not object to admit British medical men as 
volunteers in their army hospitals, provided that they 
speak German fluently, that they have the licence 
to practise medicine and surgery in the United 
Kingdom, that they have the permission of their 
Government to serve as medical volunteers in Ger¬ 
many, and that they will place themselves uncondi¬ 
tionally at the disposal of the North German Go¬ 
vernment. 
The ‘ Lancet,’ in speaking of the Second Report 
of the Rivers Pollution Commissioners, says that 
“ the public, now fully sensible of the folly of turn¬ 
ing the debris of our food and bodily waste into otir 
rivers and the sea, polluting them to an extent 
which made their condition destructive of public 
health and comfort, have been fascinated with a 
fiction that alum, blood, and clay possessed the 
charm of preventing contamination, and, at the 
same tune, became the medium of restoring to the 
land those fertilizing agents which had been ex¬ 
tracted in the formation of food.” It adds, that 
these illusions are made to disappear by Dr. Frank- 
land’s investigation of the subject,—the general con¬ 
clusions he has arrived at being those stated in our 
notice of the Royal Commissioners’ Second Report* 
just presented to Parliament. 
The Societe de Pharmacie have named a commis¬ 
sion, consisting of MM. Jungfleisch, Coulier, Baudri- 
mont, Limousin, and Regnauld, to inquire into the 
causes of the accidents which occur in the prepara¬ 
tion of ox 3 r gen by heating chlorate of potash with 
peroxide of manganese. 
The £ Medical Times and Gazette ’ announces, in 
reference to the suggestion for a memorial to the late 
Sir James Clark, that when it was brought to the 
notice of his family a desire was expressed by them 
that it should not be carried out. Although they 
feel deeply the kindness of the proposal, they consider 
it doubtful whether such a memorial would have 
been wished for by Sir J ames, inasmuch as he did 
not approve of the practice of subscriptions for such 
purposes. While thanking those who entertain the 
desire, the family hope that their friends will not be 
hurt by a request not to move further in the matter. 
The drawings of Cinchona, made under the super¬ 
intendence of Dr. Mutis at the end of the last cen¬ 
tury, are about to be published. It win be remem¬ 
bered that they were discovered by Mr. Clements R. 
Markham in an outhouse in the Botanical Garden 
at Madrid, together with some of Dr. Mutis’ MSS., 
a part of which was published under the title of 
£ The Cinchona Species of New Granada,’ for her 
Majesty’s Stationery Office, in 1867, by Mr. Markham. 
Snrasaifitms of \\t ||mumtml f ridir. 
MEETING OF THE-COUNCIL, 
August 3rd, 1870. 
MR. SANDFORD, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
MR. HASELDEN, VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Present—Messrs. Atherton, Bottle, Bourdas, Brady, 
Edwards, Groves, Hills, Reynolds, Savage, Stoddart, and 
Woolley. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and con¬ 
firmed. 
Mr. Woolley desired to move that the portion of the 
minutes referring to the grant of an annuity to Dr. 
Redwood should be excepted from confirmation, but, it 
being ruled that according to the Bye-laws, Section 6, 
Clause 3, <£ All resolutions carried at the meetings of the 
* See Pharm. Journ. No. 4, p. 67. 
