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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[October 14,1871 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Annual Meeting. 
Session 1870-71. 
The Annual Meeting was held at the Royal Institu¬ 
tion, September 28th, 1871 ; the President, Mr. John 
Abraham, in the chair. 
Mr. Robert Jennings was elected a member, and 
Messrs. George H. Damsell, Thomas Banner, jun., and i 
Henry S. Shelmerdine were elected Associates of the 
Association. 
The Hon. Secretary then read the Annual Report. 
Annual Report. 
In laying before you the Twenty-Second Annual 
Report, your Council have still cause to congratulate you 
upon the continued usefulness of your Association. 
During the past Session 10 members and 6 associates 
have been elected; 10 have resigned, or by death or 
removal have ceased to belong to our ranks, leaving 
127 at present on the roll. 
The Chemistry Classes, in connection with the School 
of Pharmacy, have been conducted by Mr. Edward 
Davies, E.C.S., etc., and his Report gives your Council 
great encouragement for the continuance of them. The 
Materia Medica and Botany Classes, conducted by Dr. 
Carter, B.Sc. F.R.C.S., your Council regret have not 
been so well attended. The Chemistry Classes will be 
continued during the winter months by Mr. Davies, 
whose attainments and ability in teaching give an 
assurance of the greatest efficiency, and your Council 
will make arrangements for holding Materia Medica and 
Botany Classes during the spring and summer months. 
The papers read at the fortnightly meetings have 
attracted considerable interest, and much information 
has been elicited during the discussions which followed. 
The majority of subjects have been connected with scien¬ 
tific chemistry. Your Council will be glad to receive 
papers during the ensuing Session upon subjects more 
intimately connected with pharmacy, materia medica, 
and botany; they also invite more miscellaneous com¬ 
munications from members who have not yet advanced 
the interests of the Association by assisting its objects in 
this way, and short papers by those who do not wish to 
occupy the entire evening. 
Your Library has been enriched during the past Ses¬ 
sion by the appropriation of the grant from the Bell 
and Hills fund; a valuable collection of MS. prescrip¬ 
tions from Joseph Ince, Esq., F.C.S., F.L.S., etc., of 
London, and several other important contributions, and 
your Council congratulate the Association upon the fact, 
that the Library is so well stored with standard works 
upon chemistry, materia medica, botany and pharmacy, 
that it was found difficult to determine what books could 
be advantageously added, and they are mainly indebted 
to Professor Attfield for the selection. The Librarian 
reports that many members have availed themselves of 
the advantages of these valuable stores. 300 books have 
been taken out during the Session, and several applica¬ 
tions have been made for the leading works which could 
not be met, and your Council are glad to find that the 
Library is of great service to members who make con¬ 
stant use of it for reference. 
Your Association was invited to send a deputation to 
meet the Committee of the Liverpool School of Science, 
to discuss the advisability of establishing a science 
college in Liverpool; your Council appointed a deputa¬ 
tion, but nothing definite has resulted. 
In compliance with the instructions of an ordinary 
meeting of the Association, your Council called a meeting 
of the chemists and druggists of Liverpool on the 10th 
of March, “ To consider the proposed compulsory Regu¬ 
lations for the keeping, storing and dispensing of 
Poisons,” at which resolutions were adopted adverse to 
compulsory regulations, and they were forwarded to the 
President of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
The Funds of your Association have been enriched by 
the liberality of the Local Committee of the Bri'ish 
Pharmaceutical Conference, and this enabled jour 
Council to hold their eleventh conversazione, at wiich 
about 400 members and friends of the Association assem¬ 
bled. Your Council are indebted to Professor Roscoe, 
F.R.S., for his exhaustive lecture upon “Solar Che¬ 
mistry,” illustrated throughout bv numerous beautiful 
experiments; to Mr. Edward Davies, F.C.S., etc. lor his 
interesting and illustrative lecture upon “ Modern Ex¬ 
plosive Compounds;” to Mr. Albert H. Samuel for his 
illustration of “Tyndall’s Theory of the Cause of the 
Blueness of the Sky,” and to the several microscopists 
and contributors of scientific novelties, etc. which enabled 
your Council to entertain their guests in such a manner 
as to make this one of the most successful conversaziones 
ever held by the Association. 
Your Council were invited to send delegates to the 
meeting of the British Pharmaceutical Conference at 
Edinburgh in August, and Messrs. Shaw, Mason and 
Dr. Edwards attended as a deputation from your Asso¬ 
ciation. 
The following members of Council retire by rotation, 
and are eligible for re-election:—Messrs. Abraham, Red- 
ford, Shaw and Sumner. 
Your Treasurer will present a report of the finances 
of the Association which shows a credit balance of 
£9. 4«. 10A 
The Treasurer read the financial report. 
Financial Report. 
The Liverpool Chemists' Association in account with John 
Shaw, Treasurer. Session 1870-1871. 
Cash Received. 
£ s. d. 
102 Members’ Subscriptions.51 0 0 
5 Members’Subscriptions Arrears.2 10 0 
2 Members’ Subscriptions Half-Session.0 10 0 
14 Associates’ Subscriptions Half-Session.3 10 0 
Balance from Local Committee of Pharmaceutical Con¬ 
ference . ... 32 15 4 
Microscopic Fees. 026 
Library Fines ..031 
Total.£80 10 11 
Cash Paid. 
£. s. d. 
Balance from 1S70.14 15 3 
Rent. 10 10 0 
Tea, Coffee, and Attendance.10 11 2 
Insurance.10 0 
Books and Periodicals.4 2 11 
Printing and Stationery.12 14 6 
Directing and Delivering Circulars.6 8 2 
Collector’s Commission.1 18 9 
Librarian .. 400 
Balance of Expenses of Conversazione.12 2 10 
Expenses calling Meeting in reference to proposed Poison 
Regulations. 1162 
Secretary's Expenses.164 
Balance in hand.[9 4 10 
Total.£90 10 11 
Examined and found correct, September 28th, 1871. 
Albert Henry Samuel, 
Charles Sharp. / 
Mr. Charles Jones moved “ That the Report as read 
be adopted, and together with the Transactions of the 
General Meetings, the Laws and Bye-Laws, the Cata¬ 
logue of Books in the Library and the List of Members, 
be printed and circulated among the members.” He 
was pleased to hear that the classes in connection with 
the School of Pharmacy had increased, in comparison 
with former sessions, and as it was the principal part of 
tAe business of the Association to provide classes for 
Pharmaceutical students, he hoped they would continue 
to avail themselves of these advantages. He congratu¬ 
lated the members upon being in possession of so valu¬ 
able a library, to which he hoped they would soon be 
able to add Sowerby’s ‘ Botany.’ 
