October 7, 1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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during tlieir apprenticeship, not only for the sake of 
botany itself, but also for the advantage it would 
give them as a training for their after studies. 
The President then presented the Prize of Books 
for the best answers upon pharmacy and dispensing, 
remarking that they had been very deservedly 
awarded to Edward Hammell, who would no doubt 
make good use of the volumes. 
The following were the questions for examina¬ 
tion :— 
Prize of Books. 
DISPENSING AND PHARMACY. 
Time allowed: Two Hours. Standard Number of 
Marks, 300. 
State the best method of dispensing the following 
prescriptions, assign the reasons for the same, and write 
the labels in suitable language :— 
]£> 01. Ricini 
Mucilag. Acacim q. s. (state quantity). 
Syrup. Tolut. 5yj 
Liq. Potassm 5iss 
Inf. Senna), 
Aqua) Cinnam. ana part. mq. ad *vj. 
Et. mist., cujus capt. part, quart, prima luce et repet. 
circiter meridiem, nisi alvus plene dejecer. 
Acid. Carbolic. 53 s. 
Pulv. Glycyrrh. 
Pulv. Acacia) ana q. s. 
Ft. pil. xij, capt. j cum singulo cibo. 
State the proportions of the ingredients in, and the 
method of preparing, the following decoctions,—cetraria), 
papaveris, taraxaci. 
Describe and explain the P. B. process for making 
ext. ergota) liquid. 
Describe and explain the P. B. process for making 
syr. papavei-is. 
State the proportion of cantharides in each of the 
following preparations 
Acetum Cantharidis. 
Emplast. Calefaciens. 
Emplast. Cantharidis. 
Liquor Epispasticus. 
Tinct. Cantharidis. 
Ung. Cantharidis. 
The President said that last but not least he had 
to present the Pereira Medal, the highest honour 
bestowed by the Society, which had been awarded to 
Henry Churchill. 
The following were the questions for examina¬ 
tion :— 
Pereira Medal. 
CHEMISTRY. 
Time allowed: Two Hours. Standard Number of 
Marks, 100. 
1. A solution acidified with hydrochloric acid gives a 
'"•’ecipitate with sulphuretted hydrogen: what metals 
would you expect to find in the precipitate, and how 
would you separate each ? 
2. Describe the best methods of preparing the chief 
compounds of phosphorus with oxygen. State the phy¬ 
sical and chemical properties of each. 
3. Explain fully homology and isomerism. 
Section I. botany. 
Standard Number of Marks, 100. 
4. What is the structure of the fruit in a fig and in a 
mulberry ? 
Section II. materia medica. 
Standard Numbers of Marks, 100. 
1. What is the structure of the minute glands which 
constitute Icamala ? 
2. What is the body that occasions the granular aspect 
of some kinds of tar,—what are its properties,—and 
should tar of such aspect be preferred for medicinal use ? 
3. Mention a recently-noticed adulteration of saffron,, 
and explain how it may be readily detected. 
4. Name the products of the Order Lauracece , used in 
food or medicine, state the plant by which (so far as is 
known) each is afforded, also the country of which native. 
The President mentioned that the Council had 
been able to award three Bell scholarships this year. 
Unfortunately last year there was only one gentle¬ 
man who gained a sufficient number of marks to be 
admitted a Bell scholar; but this year the compe¬ 
tition was so good that the Council determined to 
give three Bell scholarships, as there was no senior. 
The following were the questions for this Exami¬ 
nation :— 
Junior Bell Scholarship, 
arithmetic. 
Time allowed: One Hour. 
1. Write down in words at full length 25,642. 
2. Write in figures the sum of ten thousand nine- 
hundred and twenty-four. 
3. Reduce to its lowest terms. 
4. From f take 4. 
5. If 10 men can do a piece of work in 8 days, how 
long will 4 men take to do the same P 
6. Convert 4 cl., 6d. and 8d. to the decimal of £1. 
7. Multiply 154-321 by 100. 
8. Divide 7'424 by '32. 
9. What is the cost of 186 yards of linen at 2s. 3 d. ? 
LATIN. 
Time allowed: One Hour. 
1. Helvetii jam per angustias et fines Sequanorum 
suas copias transduxerant, et in iEduorum fines per- 
vencrant eorumque agros populabantur. iEdui, quuni 
se suaque ab iis defendere non possent, legatos ad. 
Cmsarem mittunt rogatum auxilium: Ita se onrni tem¬ 
pore de Populo Romano meritos esse, ut, parne in con- 
spectu exercitus nostri, agri vastari, liberi eorum in 
servitutem abduci, oppida expugnari non debuerint. 
Eodem tempore Ambarri, necessarii et consanguine! 
iEduorum, Cmsarem certiorem faciunt, sese, depopulate- 
agris, non facile ab oppidis vim hostium prohibere. 
Item Allobroges, qui trans Rhodanum vicos possession- 
esquo habebant, fuga se ad Cmsarem recipiunt, et de- 
monstrant, sibi, prieter agri solum, nihil esse reliqui. 
Quibus rebus ackluctus, Caesar non expectandum sibi 
statuit, dum, omnibus fortunis sociorum consumtis, in 
Santonos Helvetii pervenirent. 
2. State to what conjugation the verbs in this sentence 
belong. 
3. Compare pulchcr , accr, malt us and mains. 
4. But into Latin, “ To him death was but the gate off 
life.” 
5. What cases does in govern ? and give examples. 
ENGLISH COMPOSITION. 
1. Give an account of the different kinds of placenta- 
tion, illustrating each by an example. 
2. Describe the flower of clover. 
3. How does a double chamomile differ in structure 
from a single chamomile, and a double rose from a single 
rose l 
Time allowed : One Hour. 
Write a few remarks upon one of the following sub 
jects:— 
Travel. 
Study. 
