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Society for making known to its Fellows the progress 
of chemistry in foreign countries, and asking for 
subscriptions to enable them to defray the expense 
of a report to be published in the monthly Journal of 
the Society, of all papers whatever of scientific in¬ 
terest, and of all the more important papers relating 
to applied chemistry. A sum of £272 has already 
been promised. Not more than one-fiftli of any con¬ 
tribution is to be called for in one year. 
Members of the trade throughout the country will 
doubtless be looking forward with interest to the 
•steps taken in reference to the storing of poisons. 
We may state that at the meeting of Council on the 
7th inst. this question was discussed, and that it 
took up the greater part of a long sitting. We hope 
soon to place before the readers of this Journal a 
report of the proceedings. 
Among the objects of interest at the late meeting 
of the Pharmaceutical Society there was a specimen 
of the “ Herbarium Pharmaceuticum,” which has 
been prepared for the use of pharmaceutical schools 
and associations by Mr. Siebold, of Manchester. 
The want of such a collection of plants must be fre¬ 
quently felt by students in the provinces. 
W t e have much pleasure in stating that Mr. 
"Williams has been unanimously elected a member 
of the Council, and we do not doubt that all who 
know him will be equally unanimous in thinking 
that the place left vacant by the retirement of Mr. 
Brady could not have been better or more worthily 
filled up. 
Tile Rev. Dr. Henry Cheetham, D.D., of Christ’s 
College, Cambridge, Rector of Quarndon, Derby - 
sliire, who has been appointed to the Bishopric of 
Sierra Leone, was consecrated in St. Paul's Cathe¬ 
dral on November 30th. Dr. Cheetiiam’s original 
profession was pharmacy, and he resided for some 
years in the establishment of Mr. Harvey (now 
Harvey and Reynolds) at Leeds. 
By the courtesy of a correspondent we are en¬ 
abled to add to the list of members of the drug trade 
who have been elected to the office of mayor this 
year, the name of Mr. Robert Walker, Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemist, Maidenhead. 
We learn from Messrs. Longman’s Notes on Books, 
that it is intended to issue early in 1871, a Supplement 
to Watts’s ‘ Dictionary of Chemistry,’ bringing the 
record of chemical discovery down to the end of the 
year 1800. It will form a volume of about 000 pages, 
and many of the former contributors have consented 
to furnish additions to their articles. We should hi 
glad to see this supplementary volume made annual, 
so as to give a permanent value to the original work. 
The Gardener* Chronicle announces that by the 
resignation of Mr. J. J. Bennett, F.R.S., a vacancy 
is caused in the office of Keeper of the Botanical 
Department of the British Museum. If the usual 
course be followed, Mr. Carruthers, the Senior 
Assistant-keeper, will succeed to the post. 
Professor Bloxam has been elected to the chair 
of Chemistry in King’s College, vacant by the death 
of Dr. Miller. 
Dr. John Murray has been appointed assistant- 
physician to the Middlesex Hospital, to fill the va¬ 
cancy caused b} r the resignation of Dr. J. Burdon- 
Sandeiison, F.R.S. 
The election of a Professor of Chemistry at St. 
Bartholomew’s Hospital in the place of the late Dr. 
Mathiessen will take place on the 13th inst. 
EXAMINATION IN LONDON. 
December 2nd, 1870. 
Present—Messrs. Allchin, Bird, Carteighe, Cracknoll, 
Davenport, Deane, Edwards, Ctale, Garle, Haselden, and 
Ince; 
Dr. Grecnhow was present on behalf of the Privy 
Council. 
MODIFIED EXAMINATION. 
Forty-five candidates presented themselves for ex¬ 
amination; the following passed and were registered as 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
Ault, Reuben . Chesterfield. 
Biggleston, Edwin Radford ..Exeter. 
Bond, Edward.Reading. 
Bond, John . Okeliampton. 
Borman, John Henrie ........ Upper Norwood. 
Came, Robert Harkness.Bayswater. 
Chapman, Josialx Thomas .,.. Ilulme. 
Dix, Thomas Henry .Croydon. 
Hall, Thomas Henry ..Sheffield. 
Harvey, Henry.Wakefield. 
Hern, William Henry, jun. . .St. AustelL 
Keall, Douglas... Kington. 
Martin, Amelias Hare.Paris. 
Moseley, Sackville Gwynne .. Cardiff. 
Owen, Robert Henry ........ Rhyl. 
Pratt, Edward Jonathan.Newbury. 
Pratt, Thomas Henry.Newbury. 
Richardson, Alexander .London. 
Sellers, Blanchard F. .Birmingham. 
Smith, Allen ................. West Derby. 
Smith, Robert John ......Horselydown. 
Snell, Charles Henry .Plymouth. 
Steed, Robert Owen...Southwark. 
Sugden, Joseph William.. ....High Harrogate. 
Targett, Charles George.Faringdon. 
Taylor, Walter.Nottingham* 
Wilson, Clement Fisher.Bury. 
