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TIIE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[November 12,187a.- 
become as efficient as is the medical education pro¬ 
vided in the eight towns alluded to in the report. 
The ^ alue and permanence of local schools must 
depend mainly upon their enabling students in their 
neighbourhood to qualify themselves fully without 
the necessity of their attending lectures or labora¬ 
tory practice in the Metropolis; and, while we would 
urge upon every student to avail himself of every 
means of gaining knowledge within his reach, we 
must admit that a mutual improvement society, with 
a small library and materia medica collection, should 
affoid all the assistance required by ciny earnest stu¬ 
dent to enable him to pass the Minor. So long as 
there is a Minor Examination conferring the title of 
“ Chemist and Druggist,” and enabling the holder of 
the same to carry on business, the mutual improve¬ 
ment associations of small towns will do the work of 
providing the lower grade pharmacists for those 
neighbourhoods which do not afford scope and re¬ 
muneration enough to tempt men of higher status. 
The great preponderance of lectures on chemistry, 
a popul<u science, compared to those upon materia 
medica and pharmacy, subjects especially pharma¬ 
ceutical, suggests that local associations have already 
availed themselves of science classes at mechanics’ 
institutes, etc. In aiding such schools it will be ne¬ 
cessary to see that contributions, either to a library 
oi museum, tor the benefit of pharmacy students, be 
not appropriated as the property of the mechanics’ 
institution. 
f Cffiuse I provides that the Connell may impose 
Conditions upon the recipients of their gifts, and 
clauses 9 and 10 indicate that a watchful eye will 
be kept upon the uses made of their contributions. 
We shall look forward with interest every year to 
the tabulated return which they promise. 
It now remains for our provincial friends to take 
stock of their own resources ; to ask what they have 
done and what they can do for themselves,—what 
prospect they have of establishing permanent schools 
of pharmacy with such assistance as it would be 
iocwonabio rm t.heir part to ask, and on the part of 
the parent body to give ; and, in the event of their 
expectations being of a less ambitious nature, to con¬ 
sider what help will meet the temporary wants of 
their neighbourhood, or will facilitate the working of 
mutual improvement classes, which, it must be°re- 
membered, was the only kind of school for pharma¬ 
ceutical education which afforded assistance to many 
distinguished pharmacists of the present day. 
Our readers will notice with regret that at the 
last meeting Mr. H. B. Brady resigned Ids seat at 
the Council. Few besides those who have laboured 
with him have any conception of the energy anti 
conscientiousness with which he performed more 
than Ids share of the Society’s business, and of the 
impetus he gave to the moving power at a time when 
there were many Councillors and but few active 
workers. It is fitting that it should now be recorded 
in these columns that to him the Members and Asso¬ 
ciates are mainly indebted for the publication of tliis; 
Journal weekly. Zeal for the Society and for phar- 
macy prompts us to hope that after the lapse of a few 
years, when he shall have grown proof against Lon¬ 
don fogs and English winters, Mr. Brady will allow 
his late constituents to again draw upon Ids time and 
comfort. We promise beforehand, on their behalf; 
that it shall then be for only a very moderate amount 
-k understand that IVIessrs. Jenkins and Phil¬ 
lips, of Lime Street, E.C., have just received a large' 
parcel of cinchona bark from Columbo, Ceylon. If 
consists ot the bark of the twigs and young branches,, 
and is in very fine condition. It is to be sold in 
Mincing Lane in about three weeks’ time. 
Our readers will regret to hear that Mr. Bichard. 
Beinolds, who has lately taken an active part in 
the preparation of the Beport on Provincial Educa¬ 
tion, published this week, has met with an accident 
in a railway collision, and though we understand the- 
result is not believed to be serious, it will require.- 
his being kept quiet for some time. 
NOTICE. —In order to prevent delay in the in¬ 
sertion of advertisements, we find it necessaiy to 
remind advertisers that they should send to the 
1 ublisliers, Messrs. Churchill and Sons, 11 , New 
Burlington Street, and not to either the Editor of 
the Journal or the Secretary of the Society. 
drotfcimigs nf % §jrrawmttial j-srattj. 
MEETING- OF THE COUNCIL, 
November 2nd , 1870. 
MR. SANDFORD, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
MR. HASELDEN, VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Present—-Messrs. Atherton, Bottle, Bourdas, Deane, 
Dymond, Edwards, Groves, Hanbury, Hills, Reynolds, 
Savage, Stoddart, Sutton and Woolley. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and con- 
finned. 
Me leant from a letter just received from Bare 
Liebig that he is scarcely yet recovered from li 
late severe illness, which was brought on by ove: 
exertion m working at the papers on “ Fermentation, 
‘ Source of Muscular Power” and “Nutrition,” < 
which translations were recently published in tli: 
ouriiciL 
The President read the following’ letter from Mr- 
H. B. Brady:— 
“ To G. AY. Sandeord, Esq .,.President of the Pharma - 
ceutical Society. 
u Dear Sir,—The time has come when it seems right 
for me to tender my resignation as a member of the 
Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, and I beg you to 
convey to the November meeting of the body my de¬ 
cision not longer to hold a seat at their board. 
“ I need not go into the reasons that impel me to resign: 
