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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. [November 5, 1870. 
The Treasurer read the financial report. 
The Liverpool Chemists' Association in account with John 
Shaw, Treasurer. Session 1869-70. 
Cash received. £. s. d. 
Balance from 1869 . 1 12 6 
109 Members’Subscriptions ....£54 0 0 
Less One Member paid twice .... 010 0 
- 53 10 0 
Arrears . 0 15 0 
13 Associates’ Subscriptions . 3 5 0 
Microscope Fees . 0 4 6 
Library Fines . 0 3 3 
Balance due to Treasurer . 14 15 3 
£74 5 6 
Cash paid. £. s. d. 
Rent . 10 10 0 
Tea, Coffee and Attendance . 12 12 10 
Insurance ... 1 0 0 
Books and Periodicals ... 7 5 0 
Printing and Stationery. 15 18 0 
Directing- and Delivering- Circulars . 6 1 6 
Collector’s Commission . 116 9 
Mr. Davies for Lectures. 8 5 0 
Secretary’s Expenses . 0 15 5 
Librarian . 4 0 0 
York Glass Company .. 3 1 0 
H. Gilbertson and Sons, for Glass.. 3 0 0 
£74 5 6 
Examined and found correct, October 13th, 1870. 
Charles Sharp, \ Auditors 
Alfred Henry Mason / ^ ltauors * 
Mr. Shaw moved “ That the Reports as read be 
adopted, and together with the Transactions of the 
General Meetings, the Laws and Bye-laws, the Cata¬ 
logue of Books in the Library and the List of Members, 
be printed and circulated among the members.” He 
explained that the deficit was caused by extra expendi¬ 
ture on the museum and library. Next year there would 
be several items of expense omitted, and he hoped that 
this feature would not recur. 
Mr. Mason seconded the resolution, and observed that 
in many cases employers did not give sufficient oppor¬ 
tunity to their apprentices and assistants for study. 
The resolution was carried unanimously. 
The meeting then proceeded to the election of four 
members of the Council in place of Messrs. Davies, 
Murphy, Sharp and Dr. Symes, who retired by rotation. 
The retiring members were re-elected. 
__ Mr. Mason moved that a special vote of thanks be 
given to Mr. Ransom, of Hitchin, for his donation of 70 
dried medicinal plants for the museum. 
The vote was seconded by Mr. Bedford and carried 
unanimously. 
Mr. Tanner moved the following resolution, That the 
best thanks of this meeting be given to the donors to 
the Library and Museum, and to the authors of papers 
during the past session. 
The motion was seconded by Mr. T. F. Abraham and 
passed. 
Mr. Woodcock moved, 11 That the best thanks of this 
meeting be given to the officers and council for their 
valuable services during the past session.” 
Mr. Tate seconded the motion, and alluded to the 
constant attendance of the President, and to the large 
amount of labour which had fallen upon the Secretary 
during the session. Carried nem. con. 
Mr. Bedford said that he was glad that no expression 
of regret had appeared in the Report with reference to the 
deficit, as he considered that the money had been well 
spent and fully accounted for. He called attention to 
the new arrangements for the School of Pharmacy, 
and hoped that a new epoch of success had been com¬ 
menced. He proposed a vote of thanks to the Chair¬ 
man. 
Mr. Tate seconded the motion, which was carried by 
acclamation, and the meeting separated. 
SHEFFIELD PHARMACEUTICAL AND 
CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The First General Monthly Meeting of the Winter 
Session, 1870-71, was held in the Music Hall, on 
Wednesday evening, October 19th, when there was a 
good attendance of Members and Associates to hear 
Dr. J. C. Hall deliver the Inaugural Address. Mr. E. 
Wilson, the President, occupied the chair. Dr. Hall 
commenced his remarks by saying that he had the honour 
of being the first President of the Associated Society of 
Chemists and Druggists in that district, and he could 
not but remember that he then said that it was of the 
utmost possible importance that all chemists and drug¬ 
gists should be associated together in one body, and that 
the same good plan should be adopted with regard to 
them as was pursued in respect to his own profession in the 
passing of the Apothecaries Act of 1815. That Act had 
done more to advance the interests of the medical profes¬ 
sion than any measure that ever was passed. He had 
the greatest possible respect for the then Pharmaceutical 
Society, but he could not help at the time expressing the 
feeling that a wise thing would be done if a general as¬ 
sociation of chemists and druggists could be formed. He 
Congratulated the meeting that his advice had been taken 
and that they now were a united body. The newspapers 
were filled with discussions on the subject of technical 
education. Educational Boards were now being formed 
all over England; and a Bill had been passed with a 
view to giving that education to the young which had 
been found to be of so much importance, more especially 
in Germany. If young chemists and druggists did not 
desire to be pushed aside, they must be up and doing ; 
they must be active in their determination to possess that 
general knowledge which would fit them for the acquisi¬ 
tion of the technical learning absolutely necessary to en¬ 
able them to succeed in the profession on which they had 
embarked. They might ask how could they find time to 
cultivate their intellectual powers when they had to rise 
early in the morning, and from the tune they pulled 
down the shutters to the time they put them up again 
were incessantly engaged. All he could say was, that as 
soon as they could, they should get up an early-closing 
movement, which would do them good and do their 
masters no harm. He had always found, too, that men 
with an earnest purpose could find time to make time, 
and a lad should get up an hour before it was time to 
take down the shutters rather than be left behind in the 
race. It was really astonishing how fruitful the shortest 
season was found to be when rightly employed. He 
would exhort them to profit by every spare moment, and, 
amongst other things, to acquire a knowledge of the 
French or German language,—better if of both. He 
would not deny any one relaxation from toil, but he 
could assure them that the solid enjoyment to be realized 
in the pursuit of knowledge was to an indefinite degree 
better than that to be found at casinos and singing-rooms. 
He pointed to the wide field which chemistry opened to 
them for the exercise of their talents, and besought them 
not to be daunted by any difficulties in the cultivation of 
that science which had done, and was still destined to do, 
so much for mankind. The lecturer, on resuming his 
seat, was loudly applauded. 
Mr. Radley proposed, and Mr. Wilson seconded a 
cordial vote of thanks to Dr. Hall for his able address, 
and it was unanimously carried. 
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and 
confirmed, and other business transacted, the meeting 
broke up. 
