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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[March 25, 1871. 
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BRISTOL PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. 
A General Meeting of the Association was held on 
Friday, March 10th; Mr. Stoddart, President in the 
chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
The President exhibited and handed to the Honorary 
Secretary for present custody, the Book of Prescriptions, 
collected by Joseph Ince, Esq., and presented by that 
gentleman to the Bristol Pharmaceutical Association; 
and a resolution was immediately adopted requesting the 
Honorary Secretary to acknowledge its receipt and to 
convey the best thanks of the, Association to Mr. Ince 
for his handsome and valuable gift. 
The subject of the death of the late Dr. Symonds was 
introduced by Mr. Giles, and the following resolution 
was unanimously adopted, the members and associates 
all rising in token of their assent to the expressions of 
respect it contained. Resolved,— 
“ That the Bristol Pharmaceutical Association desires 
to express its sense of the public loss occasioned by the 
death of the late Dr. Symonds, and particularly to ac¬ 
knowledge the respect and reverence in which his me¬ 
mory is held by the pharmacists of the city in which 
his long and distinguished professional career was pur¬ 
sued.” 
It was also resolved,— 
“ That the Hon. Sec. be requested to communicate the 
preceding resolution to John Addington Symonds, Esq., 
accompanied by an expression of respectful sympathy in 
the personal affliction which has fallen upon himself and 
his family.” 
A lecture was then delivered by Mr. ¥m. Lant Car- 
renter, Esq., B.Sc., upon “ Respiration Chemically and 
Physiologically considered.” At its conclusion, a cordial 
vote of thanks to the lecturer was carried by accla¬ 
mation. 
MANCHESTER CHEMISTS’ ASSISTANTS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
An unusally well-attended Meeting was held in the 
Council Room, Mitre Chambers, on Thursday evening, 
March 16th, to discuss the “poison regulations” ques¬ 
tion. 
The President, who was in the chair, after making a 
few preliminary remarks, called upon the Secretary (Mr. 
B. H. Cowgill) to read a short paper he had prepared 
upon this important subject. He showed at some length 
how disadvantageous, to by far the greater number of 
chemists, any such compulsory regulations for the keep¬ 
ing and dispensing of poisons, as those recommended by 
Mr. Simon, would necessarily become. He did not think 
that however severe the regulations might be made, they 
would in any way diminish the number of accidents 
which occur under the present system; that number 
being so very small in proportion to the prescriptions 
dispensed and the amount of business done with those 
dangerous drugs, the “poisons.” He was of opinion 
that the great responsibility necessarily felt by each in¬ 
dividual chemist, and the great precautions taken, as a 
rule, in the keeping and dispensing of poisons, was of 
far greater importance and much more weight than any¬ 
thing which would be embodied in any “ compulsory 
measures.” 
Mr. Clark said he should like to be informed what 
was the good of all future chemists being obliged to edu¬ 
cate themselves to pass examinations, which examinations 
are considered to be the test as to their capability of be¬ 
coming chemists, if such regulations as those previously 
mentioned are to be imposed upon them. 
The Secretary was also supported in his views by Mr. 
Harrison, Mr. Lane, Mr. Yeats and others. 
The following resolutions were then put to the meet¬ 
ing and passed unanimously:— 
First resolution, moved by Mr. Midgley, seconded by 
Mr. Yeats. 
“ That this meeting is of opinion that any compulsory 
regulations for the keeping and dispensing of poisons arc 
entirely unnecessary, either as a safeguard for the che¬ 
mist or in the interests of the public.” 
Second resolution, moved by Mr. Lane, seconded by 
Mr. Clark. 
“ That this meeting is of opinion that the standard of 
efficiency required by the Pharmacy Act, 1868, is a suf¬ 
ficient guarantee as to the fitness of a chemist in the 
keeping and dispensing of any poisonous drugs required 
in the transaction of his business. 
Third resolution, moved by Mr. Harrison, seconded 
by Mr. Allcock. 
“ That this meeting is of opinion that, should any such 
regulations be enforced, they would be most offensive 
and objectionable to members of the trade generally.” 
Fourth resolution, moved by Mr. Lane, seconded by 
Mr. Midgley. 
“ That a special fund be raised in connection with this 
Association, to be called the Defence Fund,—the proceeds 
of which, after paying any incidental expenses, shall be 
handed over to the Chemists and Druggists’ Defence As¬ 
sociation to aid them in their object.” 
The Secretary proposed, which met with the entire 
approval of the meeting, “ That the above resolutions bo 
formed into a petition and signed by the chemists’ as¬ 
sistants of Manchester as an expression of their views 
upon this subject; that Mr. W. S. Brown be invited to 
present the same at the Council Meeting of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society.” 
The proceedings then terminated. 
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QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 
The Annual Conversazione of this Club took place at 
University College, on Friday evening, and was very 
largely attended, as it usually is. The objects provided 
by the club for the entertainment of its guests, com¬ 
prised all the optical novelties of the year, and the 
members as well as the leading opticians did all in their 
power to exhibit objects worthy of the position the Club 
claims in the encouragement of microscopical science. 
Photography was on this, as at the last Annual Soiree, 
well represented. A large and interesting series of pho¬ 
tographs of Indian temples and scenery was kindly lent 
by the India Office, also frames of photographs were lent 
by Mr. J. Yan Voorst, Mr. John Foster, Mr. E. Kiddle 
and Mr. A. Shapcott. Mr. Apps exhibited, at frequent 
intervals, the marvellous electrical effects produced by 
means of his well-known induction coil. 
In the midst of so many attractions it is difficult to 
single out for especial mention any one feature of interest, 
but that which seemed possessed, at this time, of surpass¬ 
ing interest was an exhibition on the screen by the oxy- 
hydrogen light Qf a series of transparent photographs 
illustrative of the scenery of the late lamentable Franco- 
Prussian War, contributed by the London Stereoscopic 
Company, with an explanatory lecture by Mr. James 
Martin, and which commanded crowded audiences all 
the evening. 
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We regret to have to record the death of Mr. Robert 
Westwood, of 16, Newgate Street, London, aged seventy- 
three. Mr. Westwood was one of the founders of the 
Society, and for the last seven years has been annually 
elected one of the auditors. 
