May 27, 1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
945 
TVe, the undersigned Auditors, have examined the Accounts of the Pharmaceutical Society,'and find them correct 
agreeably with the foregoing statement; and that there was standing to the account of the Society, at the Bank of 
England, on the 31st December, 1870 :—- 
General Fund. ) 
Life Members’ Fund . j 
Benevolent Fund .) 
Pereira Memorial Fund. j 
Bell Memorial Fund . 
Secretary’s Casual Relief Fund ... 
New 3 per Cents. 
Consols. 
Do. 
Do. 
£10,200 0 0 
2,890 0 0 
11,500 0 0 
100 0 0 
The Hills Prize Fund .Russian Bonds (at Bankers). 
Frederick Barron, 
William Hodgkinson, 
John Brunt Mackey, 
William Squire, 
£13,090 0 0 
11,600 0 0 
2,050 0 0 
105 0 0 
200 0 0 
Auditors. 
BENEVOLENT FUND, 1870. 
£ s. d. 
To Balance in Treasurer’s hands (Jan. 1, 1S70) .... 421 15 4 
„ Dividends on invested capital ......... 815 11 G 
„ Donations.£98 4 0 
„ Subscriptions.. 586 16 9 
- 685 0 9 
£ s. d. £ s. d. 
By 10 Annuitants, to Christmas, 1870, at £30 
each. 300 0 0 
,, 2 Annuitants, elected Oct. 1870 (2 months 
to Christmas), at £5 each.10 0 0 
- 310 0 0 
,, Grants: — 
Member, London, 4th grant, now a Can¬ 
didate for Annuity.210 0 
Member, at Jersey, from 1852 to 1808, age 
64, cripple from rheumatic gout, elected 
an Annuitant, Oct. 1870. 10 0 0 
Widow (with three children) of a late 
Member in Kent. 20 0 0 
Orphan daughter of a late Member at 
Southampton (fourth grant) .... 10 0 0 
Member at Oxford.10 0 0 
Widow of a late Member at London, age 
51 (fourth grant) .5 0 0 
Member, late of Watford, age 58 ... 10 0 0 
Widow of a late Member at Lancaster, 
age 62, now a Candidate for an Annuity 10 0 0 
[Registered Chemist and Druggist at 
Brighton, age 43 . 15 0 0 
- 110 0 0 
,, Balance due to Secretary, Jan. 1, 1870 . 0 0 3 
,, Premium on the Orphan Bentley’s Policy 
of Assurance.1 11 2 
,, Advertisements.210 
,, Postage. 8 19 3 
- 12 11 8 
,, Printing and Stationery.13 10 0 
Purchase of £961. 12s. 10 tf. Consols.891 5 10 
... 85 0 1 
Balance in Treasurer’s hands (Dec. 31, 1870) 
£1,422 7 7 
February 23, 1871. 
Consols, 31st December, 1869 .^10,000 0 0 
Consols, purchase of, as above.061 12 10 
Consols, purchase of (transfer of £500 from General Fund Account) .... 538 7 2 
Total invested Capital.£11,500 0 0 
We, the undersigned Auditors, have examined the above Account, and find the same correct. 
Frederick Barron, 
William Hodgkinson, 
John Brunt Mackey, 
William Squire, 
February 23, 1871. 
Auditors. 
mentioned in the report of last year, appear on this occa¬ 
sion as. increasing the item of “ Repairs and alterations.” 
The Council have been encouraged by the greater use 
made of the library to increase their outlay in the pur¬ 
chase of "books. The selection has been carefully made 
from month to month by the Library Committee. 
It will be observed that the cost entailed upon the 
Society by the publication of the Register, in conformity 
with the Act of 1868, has been reduced from £245 in 
1869 to £68 in the past year, with the satisfactory pro¬ 
spect of a still further diminution of expense in future 
issues. In noticing the 4 Register,’ the Council would 
draw attention to the great difficulty experienced by the 
Registrar in keeping it correctly,—a difficulty mainly 
caused by unreported retirements, changes of residence 
and deaths. The Council would urge upon members the 
great assistance they may afford the Registrar, by send¬ 
ing timely information of changes which take place in 
their neighbourhoods. 
The remarks on the Financial Statement cannot bo 
closed without alluding to the pension granted to Dr. 
Redwood when the change in the editorship of the 
Journal occurred in July last. Dr. Redwood had been 
so long connected with that publication, and had devoted 
