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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[October 8, 1870. 
eveiy success in your studies. Distinction and 
honours are within your reach,—strive for them by all 
means and enjoy your rewards to the full; but I 
should rejoice to think that in the midst of any 
triumphs the future may bring, when the heart was 
beginning to swell with the pride of first achievement 
and success was threatening to awake the flame of 
vanity, some lingering memory of the higher obliga¬ 
tion 1 have just indicated might serve to restore you 
to a humble spirit. I would that you and I could at 
all times remember we are not mere units, with 
privilege to live for ourselves alone, any more pro¬ 
fessionally than privately. We are ingredients of a 
body corporate, whose honour is to the extent of our 
opportunities committed to each one’s care, and it is 
our bounden duty to preserve it pure. Let us aim 
high, therefore, and yet be lowly, seeking the general 
advance rather than our own advantage ; in a word, 
let our first efforts be to become Christian gentlemen, 
and then, for certain, every fresh attainment we may 
acquire, and eveiy meed of honour we may gain, will 
become a new grace and a new dignity for our com¬ 
mon mistress Pharmacy. 
The Chairman in proposing a vote of thanks to 
Mr. Schaclit, said there was a little matter which he 
had forgotten to mention when distributing the prizes. 
As they were aware, Mr. Hills, the treasurer, last 
year published a portrait of Mr. Jacob Bell at his 
own expense, intending to give the whole of the pro¬ 
ceeds of the sale to the Society to be distributed in a 
prize of books. The portrait had not sold so well as 
had been anticipated, but Mr. Hills’ generosity was 
was not to be baulked, and he had therefore aug¬ 
mented the sum realized by a further donation of 
money, making in all an amount of stock which 
would produce PTO a year. The details of the prizes 
were not } r et definitively arranged, but it was pro¬ 
posed that a prize of books should be given every 
month to those who passed the best Minor Examina¬ 
tion ; many members of the Council, whose opinion 
was of great value, thinking that prizes being awarded 
to these young students would have the effect of 
leading them on to further exertions. After an¬ 
nouncing the next meeting, the Chairman said he 
had concluded the business of the evening, but he 
understood there was to be an afterpiece of which 
he was to be the subject, and he would therefore beg 
leave to withdraw. 
Mr. Frederick Barron having been requested to 
take the chair, said he was much gratified at the 
honour which had been conferred upon him. As the 
meeting were aware, upwards of <£500 had been sub¬ 
scribed by the trade for the purpose of presenting 
the President with a suitable testimonial, and though 
this did not appear a very large sum, yet considering 
that chemists as a body were not very wealthy, he 
thought they need not be ashamed of what had been 
done, and what had been given was given heartily 
and freely. Mr. Sandford enjoyed the affectionate 
respect of all who knew him throughout the length 
and breadth of the land, and in the Society to which 
he had devoted the best efforts of a great part of his 
life he was deservedly popular. His tune was ex¬ 
ceedingly valuable; he was a man not only of a large 
and generous heart, but of a highly cultivated mind, 
and he had given to the Pharmaceutical Society 
much more of liis time and attention than could 
fairly have been expected of him. The result was, 
that, seconded as he had been by the efforts of liis. 
colleagues and of the able professors connected with 
the Institution, they had not only obtained the Phar¬ 
macy Act, but had placed the Society in a higher 
position than it had ever before occupied. Having 
referred in terms of high approbation to the addresses 
which he had heard on that and similar occasions, 
Mr. 'Barron requested the Secretary to uncover the 
portrait of Mr. Sandford, the sight of wliich elicited 
a burst of applause. He stated that the selection of 
the artist, Mr. Knight, R.A., had been made after 
the greatest deliberation, and he believed the result 
showed that their choice had been a wise one. He 
understood that Mr. Sandford, with great generosity, 
had expressed his intention of handing over the por¬ 
trait to the Society, and it would probably be hung 
by the side of the portrait of Mr. Allen, their first 
President, whom, in his personal character, Mr. 
Sandford in many points resembled. In conclusion, 
he was sure all who heard him would unite in wish¬ 
ing long life and happiness to their esteemed Presi¬ 
dent, and he invited them to join in giving three 
hearty cheers. 
Mr. Mackay having proposed a vote of thanks to 
Mr. Barron for his services as Chairman of the Tes¬ 
timonial Committee, which was briefly acknowledged, 
the proceedings terminated. 
BRISTOL PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The Annual General Meeting- of the Association was 
held on Friday, September 30, at the Philosophical In¬ 
stitution ; Mr. Stoddart, President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read 
and confirmed, the following report and statement of 
accounts were read and adopted:— 
Report. 
The Council of the Bristol Pharmaceutical Association 
have great pleasure in presenting to the members their 
first Annual Report. They have endeavoured to fulfil 
their appointed duty. Their instructions were “ to use 
their best efforts for the establishment of a thoroughly 
efficient school of pharmacy, and to arrange a series of 
open meetings for the delivery of lectures and the read¬ 
ing of scientific papers.” With regard to the latter por¬ 
tion of these instructions, they have to report that on 
each second Friday of the months November and De¬ 
cember, 1869, and January, February, March, April and 
May, 1870, useful and interesting matters were pre¬ 
sented to the members and associates in the form of 
lectures and papers. The lectures were delivered by 
Mr. Coomber, Mr. Gilford, Mr. Townsend and Mr. Wm. 
Lant Carpenter, and the papers were read by Mr. 
Boucher, Mr. Stoddart, Mr. Giles and Mr. Schacht. 
At most of these meetings good attendances welcomed the 
lecturers ; but the Council regret to have to notice that 
on occasions when distinctly pharmaceutical subjects 
were announced the attendances were the smallest; a 
fact that they feel must operate to the discouragement 
of those who would otherwise be willing workers for 
the general good. 
In reference to the establishment of a school of phar¬ 
macy, the Council have to report that they have availed 
themselves of the best resources at their disposal for the 
attainment of this most important object. They are 
quite aware^hat as yet Bristol does not possess a perfect 
school of pharmacy, but they have been able to arrange 
four complete courses of lectures upon the most important 
portions of pharmaceutical education, viz. chemistry, 
organic and inorganic; and botany, structural and sys¬ 
tematic. They are satisfied that, as far as they have 
