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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. [September 3,1870. 
The Society represents something more than its 2500 
subscribing Members and Associates : it seeks to be 
and, we venture to add, is representative of the 
whole trade; its influence in one form or another 
is now felt by every chemist in Great Britain. 
It would then be a graceful compliment to its 
young and prosperous offspring, if the Council 
were to appoint as one of its numerous delegates to 
the approaching meeting the chief actor in the 
struggle for the Pharmacy Act of 1868, the man 
whose portrait, removed from the Boyal Academy 
Exhibition, we are proud to hear will decorate the 
walls of the examination room next October. Do¬ 
mestic bereavement, public and private cares of no 
ordinary land have been his lot during the last few 
months, and we would not willingly add further bur¬ 
dens ; but our provincial friends, anxious to take a 
more active part in the working of the Society, 
naturally desire to make the personal acquaintance 
of its leading members. Their inclination and will¬ 
ingness to undertake fresh duties cannot be ques¬ 
tioned, and in regard to Mr. Sandford, we feel so 
confident that his presence in Liverpool would be of 
service to the Society, as well as to the Conference, 
and so gratifying to himself, that we do not hesitate 
to urge the importance of his not neglecting this 
favourable opportunity of taking counsel with his 
constituents and friends. 
The Vice-President, Mr. Haselden, would bring a 
large practical experience to bear on the questions 
for discussion, while, as an active, painstaking and 
popular member of the Board of Examiners, he 
would most certainly be cordially received. The 
views we have advanced in regard to the officers of 
the Society apply with equal force, cater is paribus, 
to the Councillors and Examiners generally. Then- 
attendance hitherto has not been so numerous as we 
could wish, and we are disposed to think that many 
opportunities for useful work have been for the time 
lost, owing to the scarcity of the initiative element 
of the Society at former meetings. Never has there 
been a more appropriate time for those who consider 
that the duties of office necessitate other sacrifices 
than those of regular attendance at Bloomsbury 
Square, to show their sympathy -with chemists and 
druggists generally. 
We hope to see in the Liverpool list, amongst 
others new to the Conference, the names of Bottle, 
Edwards, Brown, Woolley, Williams, Allchin, 
Darby, Gale, Hedwood, etc. Edinburgh may be relied 
upon for sending John Mackay. Without his genial 
spirit, it may be safely affirmed that no Conference, 
social, political, or otherwise, can be complete. We 
can predict, with some confidence, that all the guests 
assembled this month at Liverpool, will, on their 
departure, carry away with them an impression far 
more lasting than any that can be produced, solely 
by what our American neighbours designate, “a 
phenomenal cataract of verbal influences.” 
0DI3SE QUEM LiESERIS. 
We have been reminded by several correspondents 
that the Lancet —which lately gave publicity to the 
opinion that medical men ought not to be called upon 
to sit in the same room with Pharmaceutical Chemists 
at a public exhibition, and that chemists were by no 
means fit company to be publicly associated with by 
medical men at the Polytechnic—this week com¬ 
pletes, as we presume, its bouquet of compliments 
by designating the class represented by this Journal 
as “malefactors” who are in the habit of “pre¬ 
scribing in the dark.” 
We shall not, however, be at any pains to disclaim 
the title for which pharmaceutists' are thus indebted 
to the discriminating courtesy of our contemporary 
for in its more sober moments, or at a period of 
stricter editorial control, we shall fully expect to see 
a spontaneous amende. 
EXEMPTION FROM JURIES. 
We desire to draw the attention of Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemists to the fact that this is the proper 
time, for those who desire to avail themselves of 
their privilege in this respect, to take notice whether 
their names are included in the List of Jurors affixed 
to the parish church doors on the three first Sun¬ 
days in September, and hi that case to make their 
objections as prescribed by the Juries Act, 1862.* 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ FUND FOR THE 
SICK AND WOUNDED. 
We have much pleasure in acknowledging the 
following additional contributions during the past 
week, and in thanking those who have already sub¬ 
scribed towards alleviating a calamity which the 
Times has well characterized as a wholly exceptional 
outburst of the fearful forces which human nature, as 
much as physical nature, has in store,—a calamity all 
are bound to relieve as one concerning all humanity. 
We desire, at the same time, to urge upon those who 
contemplate subscribing, that the pressing nature of 
the case requires prompt action, and we feel the more 
impelled to do this because, in the lists of contribu¬ 
tions hitherto published, the names of many leading 
pharmaceutists have yet to be enrolled. This is the 
case with the Local Secretaries throughout the 
country, who, of course, cannot be expected to respond 
so promptly as individuals, since they have the extra 
trouble of collecting subscriptions. This is a work 
of time, and while tendering our thanks to those 
local secretaries who have been the first to send in 
collections, we trust to finding them before long well 
supported by their colleagues in other places. 
The frightful magnitude of the suffering now being 
undergone by the wounded soldiers of both armies, 
is such as to eclipse altogether ideas of nationality 
or predilections in favour of one side or the other. 
* See Pharmaceutical Journal, 3.3., iv. 95. 
