October 14,1871.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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Mr. Alfred E. Tanner seconded the resolution, which 
wns carried unanimously. 
The meeting then proceeded to the election of four 
members of Council in place of Messrs. Abraham, Red- 
ford, Shaw and Sumner, who retired by rotation. 
The result of the ballot was that the retiring members 
were re-elected. 
The President stated that at the end of the session 
Mr. Davies invited the students in the Chemistry Class 
to attend voluntarily a written examination, the result 
of this was so gratifying that he and Mr. Davies had 
decided to award prizes to the two students who obtained 
the highest number of marks; he had therefore much 
pleasure in presenting the first prize, Pereira’s ‘Materia 
Medica,’ to Mr. Abbott; the second, Bowman’s ‘ Prac¬ 
tical Chemistry,’ to Mr. Jackson. 
Mr. Bedford moved, “That the best thanks of this 
meeting be given to the donors to the Library and 
Museum, and to the authors of papers during the past 
session.” 
Mr. F. Taylor seconded the motion; carried unani¬ 
mously. 
Mr. Charles Blood moved, “ That the best thanks of 
the meeting be given to the Officers and Council for their 
valuable services during the past session.” 
Mr. T. F. Abraham seconded the motion; carried 
unanimously. 
The President, Treasurer, and Secretary returned 
thanks. 
A discussion arose upon the desirability of having a 
collection of MSS. prescriptions in the library. The 
Secretary referred to Dr. Syme’s proposal of last session 
to fill up a book, if the Council provided one; it was 
finally decided to lay the matter before the Council, and 
announce their decision upon the circular calling the 
ordinary meetings. 
A vote of thanks to the Chairman having been carried 
by acclamation, the meeting separated. 
The following arrangements are announced for the 
Session 1871-72, of the School of Pharmacy, in connec¬ 
tion with the Liverpool Chemists’ Association 
A course of lectures on inorganic chemistry, prepara¬ 
tion of chemical products used in pharmacy, qualitative 
and volumetric analysis, by Edward Davies, F.C.S., etc., 
lecturer on experimental physics in Queen’s College. 
Each lecture will be followed by questioning upon the 
previous lecture, and will be illustrated with experi¬ 
ments. 
The course will commence on Friday, October 13th, 
from 5.30 to 7.0 p.m., and will be continued on successive 
Fridays until the end of March, 1872, at the laboratory, 
17, Back Colquitt Street (off Seel Street). Fee for the 
course, one guinea. 
Pharmaceutical Students will be received at the labo¬ 
ratory for the study of practical chemistry, at any hour 
between 9 and 5 o’clock. Fee one guinea and a half for 
three months, two hours per week. 
Students wishing to attend these lectures must send 
their names to Mr. Davies, at the laboratory, on or be¬ 
fore October 13th, from whom further particulars may 
be obtained. 
Arrangements will be made for holding classes in ma¬ 
teria medica and botany during the spring and summer 
months, particulars of which will be duly announced. 
GLASGOW CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
The Annual General Meeting of this Association was 
held on Wednesday evening, 4th instant, in Anderson’s 
University ; Air. Thomas Davison, President, presiding. 
The attendance was good. After the usual preliminary 
business, the Secretary (Mr. J. M. Fairlie) was called 
upon, and read the— 
Annual Report for 1S70-71. 
Tour Council has much pleasure in presenting an 
epitome of the proceedings ot the Association during the 
past year; and they are proud to state that, in most re¬ 
spects, the Association has made a marked improvement 
on any preceding year. The membership has reached 
the large number of one hundred and thirty-six (upwards 
of thirty of whom are employers). This increase of about 
fifty to the membership of last session may be accounted 
for in several ways; first, the fact that we now hold our 
meetings in our own hall, and within the walls of Ander¬ 
son’s University; second, the necessity for education 
among the younger members of the business, and the very 
encouraging prospect your Society has of being able to 
carry out special classes suited to the wants of Pharma¬ 
ceutical students ; third, the great assistance your Asso¬ 
ciation received from Dr. R. Carter Moffat, Professor 
Henneday and Dr. D. C. Black by lectures, etc., and the 
liberal support you have received financially at the 
hands of several of the wholesale houses, especially the- 
Glasgow Apothecaries’ Company, and last, though not 
least, the fact that Glasgow chemists generally have at 
length been aroused to a due sense of their position in 
regard to pharmacy in the kingdom. 
The remodelling of the constitution and the raising of 
the annual subscriptions, were necessary adjuncts to the 
change in the place of meeting, and it is hoped that the 
care bestowed on the compiling of the several rules, may 
be felt and appreciated by their remaining the guide of 
future councils for many years to come; and we trust 
that the increased subscriptions, which, properly speak¬ 
ing, will commence with the ensusing session, may not 
debar any from joining us, but that every one will do 
their utmost to make next session even more successful 
in point of numbers than the one just brought to a close. 
As usual a syllabus of business was issued at the com¬ 
mencement of the session, which was well adhered to 
throughout; fourteen meetings were held in all, and the 
average attendance could not be less than sixty. Mr. 
Kennedy's two lectures on “ The Histology of Plants ” 
was the first point of interest; then we had three lectures 
from Dr. Moffat of the usual instructive and interesting 
nature. The event of the session, however, was Dr. D. 
Campbell Black’s address on the “Relation of Prescribe!' 
to Dispenser.” This address was published in full in 
the Pharmaceutical Journal; several of the medical 
journals took notice of it by giving extracts and leaders 
favourably criticizing its contents ; while your Society 
printed and circulated four hundred copies. All this 
speaks largely for the interest it created not only in ancL 
around Glasgow, but throughout the whole country. 
We believe it has been the means of bringing before the 
country, more prominently than anything else, the ano¬ 
malous position in which the dispenser is placed in and 
around this large city; and we hope the day is not far 
distant when there shall be an entire separation of the 
two professions. 
The several papers read by members of the Association 
and the discussions which took place at the meetings, 
will, we think, compare favourably with those of any 
other association of similar pretensions. One member 
specially deserves mention, he having prepared and read 
two very practical papers, and passed two of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society’s examinations in the course of the 
session, an example well worthy of imitation.. 
We are glad to record that the Annual Festival, which 
has always been such a prominent feature in our pro¬ 
gramme of business, came off this year with its usual 
success. Your Council would, however, recommend that, 
as an educated body, we should adopt some other means 
of meeting socially, and thus raise ourselves above the 
common mode of trade gatherings. 
The revival of the poisons regulation question was an¬ 
other feature in the business of the session, anil we were 
glad to notice that the example set by your Association, 
of “actions not words,” was followed by other associa— 
