August 12, 1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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io have their names on tlie list. I therefore propose 
;that they be added. 
The motion was agreed to. 
Annual Report. 
Professor Atteield (one of the general Secretaries) 
’.read the annual report of the Committee as follows :— 
The President and Executive Committee once more ! 
have to report to the members of the British Pharma¬ 
ceutical Conference that during the past year the Asso¬ 
ciation has largely increased in numbers, usefulness . 
and general prosperity. Nearly two thousand names 
. are on our books, each member has been presented with 
n copy of the Year-Book, and the Treasurer’s statement 
shows a balance in hand of fifty pounds. 
Meetings of the Executive Committee. — During the past 
year your Committee has held six meetings. 
On October 5th, 1870, after some matters of detail 
relating to the Liverpool meeting had been disposed of, 
a formal vote of thanks was conveyed to the Chairman, 
-Secretary and other members of the Liverpool Local 
Committee, for the j udicious, liberal and successful man¬ 
ner in which they had advanced the objects of the Con¬ 
ference. Mr. James Collins was then appointed to give 
•evening assistance to the Metropolitan Secretary, in 
keeping the books of the conference, issuing circulars 
.and acknowledging subscriptions; the post being made 
tenable for one year at a salary of twenty-five pounds. 
.Messrs. Carteighc, Groves, Hanbury, Ince and Stoddart, 
with Professor Attficld as Secretary, were reappointed a 
•Committee to superintend the publication of the Year- 
Book of Pharmacy. At this meeting eleven candidates j 
were elected to membership. 
On December 7th, 1870, two long reports of business 
•transacted by the Year-Book Committee, on October 19th 
and 20th, were read, discussed and adopted. The con¬ 
tinued illness of Mr. Brough had rendered imperative 
the appointment, by this Sub-committee, of a joint editor, 
an olfice which Mr. Joseph Ince had, after some per¬ 
suasion, consented to accept. The Executive confirmed 
the action of the Sub-committee. Arrangements were 
then made for the distribution of the Year-Book to mem¬ 
bers. Ten gentlemen were elected to membership. 
On February 1st, 1871, the labours of Local Treasurers 
and the courtesy of London merchants, in conveying 
parcels of the Year-Book gratuitously, were duly recog¬ 
nized and recorded. Plans for obtaining an increased 
number of members with the view of securing sufficient 
funds to continue the publication of a Year-Book were 
introduced by the Secretaiy, and fully discussed. At a 
previous meeting the Executive Committee had accepted, 
with much regret, the resignation of Mr. John Cargill 
Brough, as editor of the Year-Book. The sad state of 
Mr. Brough’s health rendering any resumption of edi¬ 
torial work impossible, invitations to apply for the ap¬ 
pointment had been issued, and responded to by three 
gentlemen. After due deliberation, the Committee elected 
Mr. Charles H. Wood, F.C.S., to the vacant post. Mr. 
Daniel Hanbury, F.R.S., and Professor Attfield were 
requested to revise the list of gentlemen, societies, and 
journals, receiving presentation copies of the publications 
of the Conference. The financial position of the Con¬ 
ference was considered at tliis meeting. The following- 
proposition was carried unanimously:—“That the cor¬ 
dial thanks of the Executive Committee be conveyed to 
Mr. Joseph Ince for his valuable services in editing, at 
a very brief notice and at much personal inconvenience, 
.the ‘Year-Book of Pharmacy for 1870.” Fifty-three 
candidates were elected to membership. 
On May 16th, 1871, the London Secretary reported on j 
the distribution of the Year-Book, described the diffi- , 
culty, labour and expense connected therewith, and pro¬ 
posed that in future the volume should be sent by post 
direct from the printers to each member who had paid 
.the annual subscription (os.) and sixpence in addition 
for postage (total os. 6 d.). The Committee instructed 
the secretaries to carry out this plan during the suceced- 
ing year. The secretaries were empowered to issue a 
new form of nomination and a new specimen page of the 
Year-Book. The estimates of Messrs. Butler and Tanner 
for printing, and Messrs. J. and A. Churchill for pub¬ 
lishing a second Year-Book, on terms similar to those 
under which that for 1870 was produced, were accepted. 
The report of the Sub-committee on presentation copies 
of the Year-Book having been read and adopted, a reso¬ 
lution was passed, “That a copy of the Year-Book shall 
be offered to each provincial pharmaceutical association 
having a library.” A list of subjects suggested for re¬ 
search was laid before the Committee, and Messrs. 
Williams, Groves and Attfield appointed to revise the 
same before its distribution to members. Eighty-one 
gentlemen were elected to membership. 
On July 5th, 1871, the secretaries reported that since 
the previous meeting of Committee the following docu¬ 
ments had been posted to each of the one thousand eight 
hundred members:— (a) the list of subjects suggested 
for research, together with (b) two nomination papers, 
(c) a specimen page of the Year-Book, and (d) a letter 
requesting members to obtain candidates for election; 
another letter (e) and other invitation papers had been 
sent to four or five hundred gentlemen likely to join the 
Conference. The Annual Circular (/) relating to the 
General Meeting for 1871, and, an enclosure (on behalf 
of the Edinburgh Local Committee) of (g), a card of in¬ 
vitation to a Conversazione have also recently been for¬ 
warded. The Report of the Year-Book Committee re¬ 
lating more especially to the arrangement of matter in 
the Year-Book was received and adopted. At this 
meeting of the Committee one hundred and forty-eight 
gentlemen were elected members. 
Finally, on July 31st, your Committee met in Edin¬ 
burgh to arrange business for the present meeting, and 
to elect sixty-four members. 
Number of Members. —It will thus be seen that as a re¬ 
sult of the labours of your Committee, the efforts of local 
secretaries and the kindness of individual members, about 
three hundred new names have been added to our roll 
since we assembled last autumn. The total number of 
members is now 1917. From these figures, however, 
there must be deducted, losses by death, 8 , resigna¬ 
tions, 14, untraced removals, 6 , and members whose 
subscriptions are more than two years in arrear, 11 , 
—total 39. This gives an effective strength of 1878. 
The Executive Committee congratulates the Conference 
on this high number, but would urge on every member 
the importance of using his utmost efforts in obtaining 
recruits. The production of Year-Books, without in¬ 
termission, can only be secured by the united contri¬ 
butions of at least two thousand members. A much 
larger number than this may fairly be anticipated 
as the objects of the Conference become more widely 
known and more fully appreciated. 
Amongst those whom death has taken from us there 
occur the following:—Mr. Gissing, of Wakefield, whose 
name is appended to the original circular inviting gen¬ 
tlemen to join the Conference then about to be inaugu¬ 
rated at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1863; Mr. Tuck, of 
Oxford, five of whose papers appear in our Transactions : 
— 1 , “ Mistura Creosoti2, “ Iodo-hydrargyride of Po¬ 
tassium, and the Oxidation Tests for Methylie Alcohol’ 
3, “ Test for Methylie Alcohol when mixed with Ethylic 
Alcohol; 4, Detection of Methylie Alcohol in Chloroform, 
Ether, Sweet Spirit of Nitre and Sal Volatile and 5, 
“On Eschwege’s Patent Wood Spirit;”—and Mr. 
Quiller, of London, a name well known in pharmacy. 
The Bell and Mills Fund. —A second grant of ( ten 
guineas’ worth of books has been made by your Com¬ 
mittee in accordance with the intentions of the benevo¬ 
lent founder Mr. Thomas Hyde Hills. Fourteen appro¬ 
priately-bound volumes of recent works, not already in 
their library, were presented to the Liverpool Chemists’ 
