December 3, 1870.] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1870. 
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should be addressed to the Editor, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
Instructions from Members and Associates respecting the 
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CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ FUND FOR THE 
SICK AND WOUNDED. 
In accordance with the notice given some weeks 
since, we now close the Subscriptions to this Fund. 
The contributions received since the last publication, 
October 15, 1870, are as follow:— 
£. s. d. 
John S. Hodgkinson, Matlock Bridge . 0 5 0 
Per W. F. Blake, Loc. Sec. at Stroud :— 
£. s. d. 
W. F. Blake, Stroud . 0 10 6 
Mrs. Gay ,, 1 1 0 
James B. Carr „ 0 10 6 
J. Alfred Pearce, Cainscross .... 0 10 6 
John Simpkins, Minchinhampton 0 10 6 
- 3 3 0 
W. M. B., London. 0 5 0 
Rev. D. Anderton . 0 5 0 
J. F. Thursfield, Kettering, 
15 bottles Condy’s fluid, 
And a bundle of old linen. 
Altogether the money contributions amount to the 
sum of £139. 17**. 2d. This has been handed over to 
the National Association without any deduction. In 
addition to this simi a large quantity of medicine and 
materials of various kinds has been sent up to the 
Society’s house, by various members of the trade, and 
this also has been handed over to the Association. 
Had the subscriptions to the Fund been more general 
a very large sum would have been collected; but it 
must be borne hi mind that many who, have not con¬ 
tributed to it were compelled to give their aid in 
conjunction with then* immediate neighbours to the 
local funds raised with the same object, and that this 
was the only reason why many names are absent 
from the list of subscribers to the Chemists and 
Druggists’ Fund. 
We are informed by correspondents that at two 
other places besides those mentioned by us last week, 
members of the drug trade have been chosen as 
mayors, viz. Beverley, Yorkshire, where James M. 
Robinson, Pharmaceutical Chemist, has been elected 
for the sixth time, and Abingdon, Berks, where 
William Ballard, Pharmaceutical Chemist, fills the 
office of mayor. 
We beg to remind our readers that the meeting to 
be held on the 7th inst., promises to be of sufficient 
interest to induce a large attendance. Mr. How- 
den’s communication on the state of Pharmacy in 
America will offer many opportunities for profitable 
discussion of our own condition, and for the com¬ 
parison of various modes of dealing with details. 
The production of opium in our Australian colonies 
is also a subject that is of special importance. Mr. 
Allchin, we understand, will also bring before the 
meeting a description of an easy and effectual mode 
of bottling infusions, fruits, etc., for preservation. 
Mr. C. H. Wood is also to bring forward some phar¬ 
maceutical notes. 
The British Medical Journal announces that the 
Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland have ordered 
an apothecary to be appointed who shall purchase 
drugs, compound them, and distribute them to the 
various unions. It is thought that, besides seeming 
pure medicines, the expenditure, now amounting to 
£32,000 annually, may be considerably diminished. 
The salary is to be £500, and the election is vested 
in the hundred and sixty-three Poor Law Boards 
which exist in Ireland. 
In the closing number of the forty-second volume 
of the American Journal of Pharmacy, which we 
have just received, there is an announcement that it 
is in contemplation to begin the next volume with a 
monthly issue instead of a bi-monthly one. Mr. Wil¬ 
liam Procter, jun., who has for twenty-five years 
acted as editor of the journal, expresses his sympa¬ 
thy with the change, but at the same time intimates 
his intention of taking the opportunity to resign. 
The Council of the Apothecaries’ Hall of Ireland 
have selected “ The British Pharmacopoeia'’ as the 
subject for the annual prize to be competed for by 
apprentices to apothecaries in May next. 
The Anniversary Session of the St. Andrew’s 
Medical Graduates’ Association will be held at the 
Freemasons’ Tavern, on Saturday, December 3, at 
5 p.m., when an address, entitled “ For the Future 
of Physic,” will be delivered by Dr. Richardson, 
F.R.S., President of the Association. 
NOTICE. —The reports of proceedings at the 
meetings of provincial societies frequently do not 
reach us until some time after the meetings. The 
secretaries of the societies are requested to furnish 
these reports as early as possible for insertion in 
the Journal. They should reach the Editor’s office 
not later than Wednesday morning, if intended tor 
publication in the current week, or if a proof be 
required, not later than Monday. 
