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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[August 5, 1871 
MINOR. 
Baldwin, Edwin .Bury St. Edmund’s. 
Banks, Edward... .Salford. 
Brown, George.Retford. 
Collins, Martin Austin .... Chertsey. 
Cowgill, Brian Horatio ... .Manchester. 
Dunn, Frederick Edwin ... .Uttoxeter. 
Ellis, George.Southport. 
Emson, William Nicholls . .Dorchester. 
Fortnam, Frederick Henry . Willenhall. 
Heppell, James.Forest Hill. 
Jones, James.Carmarthen. 
Kirby, Frederick.Bridgnorth. 
Knight, John Tomlinson . .Nottingham. 
Knowles, William Edward. .Dewsbury. 
Maddock, William Thomas. .London. 
Sandy, Frederick William .. Strood. 
Ward, John Jame3 .Newark. 
Watts, Joseph, jun.AtterclifFe. 
Williams, Joseph Bower.... Olney. 
MODIFIED. 
Beattie, John .Edinburgh. 
Greatrcx, Henry .Dover. 
Greenway, Charles M.Ashby-cle-la-Zouch. 
Palmer, Henry Bridges .... Ludlow. 
Pierce, William George .... York. 
Powell, Edward Foley.Birmingham. 
Wallis, Charles James.London. 
The President said Mr. A T izer had written to the Se¬ 
cretary, referring to the proceedings at the late annual 
meeting, and asking for a copy of the notice by Mr. 
Giles of his intention to move an amendment. 
After some discussion, it was resolved that Mr. Yizcr 
be referred to the President, who was chairman of the 
meeting in question, for any information he required. 
EXAMINATION IN LONDON. 
July 28t7i, 1871. 
Present—Messrs. Allchin, Barnes, Bird, Cracknell, 
Davenport, Gale, Garle, Haselden, Ince and Linford. 
Forty candidates presented themselves for the Modified 
Examination; the following twenty-four passed, and 
were declared to be qualified, for registration as 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
Coker, Owen Cole .Pimlico. 
Cooper, Birkett Nelson .Dewsbury. 
Corrie, Andrew Adam.Bedford. 
Cory, James Thomas Haines . .Penge. 
Cross, John .Southwark. 
Grcatrex, Henry.. .... Dover. 
Greenway, Charles Marriott .. Coventry. 
Gregson, Henry .Burslem. 
Harwood, Charles .Manchester. 
Ilulbert, Samuel James .Chatham. 
Humble, William.Hatcham. 
Littlejohn, Alexander.Aberdeen. 
Neale, Benj. Thomas Mills . .Wellington,Somerset. 
Parrish, Edward James .Bristol. 
Pierce, William George.Gravesend. 
Pigott, George Herbert.Tunstall. 
Powell, Edward Foley .Birmingham. 
Powell, W alter Aitken .Great Malvern. 
Ray, William Herbert.Barnet. 
Stenson, Joseph .London. 
Stewart, William Henry.Paris. 
Tate, Edward Pitt .Eastbourne. 
Thompson, Frederick.Sheffield. 
Wallis, Charles James.London. 
BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
The British Pharmaceutical Conference commenced 
its public proceedings at Edinburgh on Tuesday last by 
a Meeting at Craigie Hall, St. Andrew’s Square. After 
the preliminary business (which we purpose reporting in 
a future number), the President, Mr. W. W. Stoddaiit, 
F.C.S., F.G.S., delivered the following address : — 
Address. 
Gentlemen,—The continued success of our Conference 
is a great cause for congratulation. Since our last 
meeting in Liverpool, when we had so large an accession 
of new members, we have to report a further increase 
of about 300, making a present total of 1878 on our 
books. 
On thinking this over, one cannot help exclaiming, 
what a large amount of good ought to proceed from 
such an army of workers, if they have (as I hope they 
have) the welfare of pharmacy at heart! It surely 
must be impossible that any single member can remain 
indifferent to an acceptance of the great chance now 
offered to us, of improving the position, if not of our¬ 
selves, at any rate of our children and successors. I feel 
confident that most of us, if not all, will be persevering 
and steadfast in endeavouring to secure a solidity, an 
honourable value to the title of pharmaceutist, by com¬ 
bining a good scientific training with a sound practical 
knowledge. 
I feel sure that my words will find an echo in the 
hearts of those who now bid us so hearty a welcome. 
We have been striving to cultivate the wish for ad¬ 
vancement in many parts of England, and now for the 
second time we thus tiy to repay the warmhearted 
hospitality that we all know fills the breast of every 
true Scotchman. In the words of one of their own. 
favourite poets I would say,— 
“ When death’s dark stream I ferry o’er, 
A time that surely shall come ; 
In heaven itself, I’ll ask no more, 
Than just a Highland welcome.” 
We are now sojourning in the land that produced 
such men as Thomson, Brewster, Murchison, Miller, 
Clyde, Leslie, Adam Smith, James Watts, Livingstone, 
Scott, Burns, and “John Mackay.” 
Pharmacy, in its true bearing, is one of the many 
offshoots of a scientific education, and cannot be pro¬ 
perly cultivated and pursued without a fair acquaintance 
with several branches of natural science. Botany is, 
doubtless, an important study, yet chemistry must ever 
be our chief ally. We may accurately describe the 
characters of the Asiatic poppy, or the Peruvian cin¬ 
chona, and yet be sadly at a loss if we knew not how to 
extract the morphia and quinia. All arts and manufac¬ 
tures are dependent on properly carrying out chemical 
principle. The miner would know nothing of the riches 
locked up in the solid rock if it were not for chemistry. 
Astronomy and microscopy would bo an empty idea if 
the chemist had not prepared the appropriate glass for 
the lenses, or the alloy for their support. If this be 
true, how much more is the preparation of medicines 
dependent on chemical processes! How is it that so 
many of our extracts, infusions, and syrups are inert, 
while the plants from which they are prepared are so 
powerful and poisonous in their action on the animal 
economy ? Why so many prescriptions oftentimes ren¬ 
dered valueless ? Surely because the medicines have 
been rudely prepared, or, as not unfrequently happens, 
the prescriber brings together in the prescription sub¬ 
stances that ought to be kept as widely apart as the 
poison cupboard and the retail department. 
Those four wonderful elements, of which all organized 
bodies are composed, must be carefully tended and 
