.January l!, 1671.] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
569 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1871. 
Communications for this Journal, ancl boohs for revieiv, etc., 
should be addressed to the Editor, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
Instructions from Members and Associates respecting the 
transmission of the Journal should be sent to Elias Brem- 
kidg-e, Secretary, 17, Bloomsbury Square, 7 V.C. 
Advertisements to Messrs. Churchill, New Burlington 
Street, London, W. Envelopes endorsed “ Bharm. Journ.” 
THE YEAR-BOOK OF PHARMACY. 
We are glad to be able to announce that the 
* Year-Book of Pharmacy’ for 1870 is now ready for 
delivery. It forms a handsome octavo volume of 
■about 600 pages, containing a large quantity of in¬ 
formation that cannot fail to be interesting and use¬ 
ful to every pharmacist. 
With respect to the delivery of the Year-Book, the 
following card is being issued to metropolitan mem¬ 
bers, and to the residents in towns which contri¬ 
bute less than three names to the roll of the Con¬ 
ference :— 
“ On signing this card, and presenting it to Messrs. 
■J. and A. Churchill, publishers, 11, New Burlington 
■Street, London, W., you will he supplied with one copy 
of the ‘ Year-Book of Pharmacy and Transactions of the 
British Pharmaceutical Conference, 1870.’ If you wish 
the book to be forwarded, please to send with the card 
full directions as to route, and also enclose to Messrs. 
Churchill stamps in prepayment of carriage. It can 
be sent by pest for 7 \d. 
“ Gentlemen joining the Conference before June 30, 
1871, and paying the yearly subscription (os. by cash, 
P.O.O., or stamps, to the London General Secretary, 
Professor Attpield, 17, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.) will 
be entitled to a copy. Price to non-subscribers, 7 s. 6<7.” 
To all other towns the volumes will be consigned, 
chiefly through the courtesy of wholesale houses, to 
the care of the local secretary, who will forward them 
to the members. The local secretaries are those 
gentlemen who formerly were local treasurers, and 
who have done so much to promote the success of the 
Conference. They have been relieved of the labour 
of collecting subscriptions by the appointment of a 
paid assistant to the London Secretary, and by the 
necessity, in view of the issue of the Year-Book, of 
direct relations being established between the finan¬ 
cial officer and each member. According to a regu¬ 
lation of the committee, the work is to be supplied 
only to members who have paid the annual sub¬ 
scription. Considering the resources of the Con¬ 
ference, this rule is clearly indispensable. 
We hope that the Executive of the British Phar¬ 
maceutical Conference will have the active assist¬ 
ance of every person who desires the well-being of 
Pharmacy, in their efforts to supply a want long felt 
in this country, and hi which England stands almost 
alone, namely, the annual issue of such a Year- 
Book. 
THE CHEMISTS’ BALL. 
This annual gathering, which resembles in its 
pleasant associations the meetings of the British 
Pharmaceutical Conference, is announced to take 
place on Wednesday, the 25tli of January. The list 
of stewards, growing year by year, presents on this 
occasion a most imposing array of well-known 
names, and includes among others the President, 
Vice-President, Treasurer and Professors of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, a sufficient testimony to 
the propriety and good taste which have charac¬ 
terized all previous reunions, and a guarantee of the 
success of this year’s assembly. The Committee are 
exerting themselves most laudably in making the 
necessary arrangements, and the Lord Mayor, him¬ 
self a druggist, has consented to be Patron. Tickets, 
Lady’s, 10$. 6 d .; Gentleman’s, 17$. 6(7., including 
supper, wine and refreshments, may be obtained of 
any member of the Committee, of Mr. Thomas 
Billing, Hon. Treasurer, 143, New Bond Street, W., 
and Mr. T. D. Watson, Hon. Sec., 40, Halton Boad, 
Canonbury Square, N. 
SALE OF POISONS ACT IN IRELAND. 
The first case of prosecution under this Act seems 
to have taken place in Galway, in connection with 
the death of a Mr. Holton. From the Daily Ex¬ 
press correspondent, it would seem that the magis¬ 
trates of the Galway Petty Session inflicted penal¬ 
ties in two cases. 
Messrs. Staunton and M‘Swiney, two well-known 
and respectable apothecaries, were each separately 
summoned for selling poison without registering it 
in a book which should have been kept for this pur¬ 
pose. The occurrence which was the occasion of 
these summonses, was one in which a rich farmer of 
Galway, named Holton, having had some family 
misunderstanding, purchased poison from the apo¬ 
thecaries above named, and having drunk it, was 
found dead next day.* The police under the direc¬ 
tion of F. W. Cullen, Sub-inspector, issued sum¬ 
monses, and the defendants were each fined os. and 
costs. Mr. Green, one of the magistrates present, 
expressed his opinion that a heavier penalty should 
be imposed. 
POOR-LAW UNIONS APOTHECARY FOR IRELAND. 
It is not the intention of the Poor-Law Commis¬ 
sioners to proceed with the Union Apothecary Order 
in its present shape. This is due to the opposition 
of about one-tliird of the Guardians. Of the 103 
unions in Ireland, 45, including the North Dublin, 
South Dublin, Cork and Belfast, had passed resolu¬ 
tions adverse to the arrangement proposed; nearly 
the same number had expressed themselves in 
favour of it, and the remainder had accepted it 
without expressing any opinion. __ 
* See ante, p. 514. 
