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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[October li, 1S71 
Pharmaceutical Society, which it is now incumbent on 
all chemists and druggists to pass before commencing or 
taking charge of a business. 
The Committee state that a year ago they expressed a 
hope that important advantages might eventuate, to effi¬ 
ciently conducted local associations, from the deliberations 
of the Sub-Committee of the Council of the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Society on technical education; they regret, how¬ 
ever, that as yet no satisfactory result appears to have 
been arrived at, arising probably from the distracted 
state of the Society and the trade during the recent 
agitation. 
The following extracts from the reports of the lec¬ 
turers will be read with interest, as marking the progress 
of the local Association. 
Mr. Rudd, speaking of the materia medica, chemistry 
and phai’macy class, says, “ It affords me much plea¬ 
sure to be able to state that the class is eminently suc¬ 
cessful. In the first year we had 18 students, an'd last 
session 20, the average attendance being 16. "With few 
exceptions the conduct and attention of the class was 
commendable. At the examination for prizes, the replies 
of the candidates and the excellent character of most of 
their papers, plainly evinced that the gentlemen who 
took the prizes were desirous of attaining a knowledge 
of the subjects taught, and had been attentive and in¬ 
dustrious students, and so in accordance with the maxim 
* Qui palmam meruit , fe-rat the prizes which they had 
honourably won had been awarded to them. I believe 
most of these prizemen would pass the Minor examina¬ 
tion at once. In the first session four prizes were offered 
for competition, this year (under special circumstances) 
six were awarded as follows :— 
“ Senior materia medica, Mr. Beil, presented by Mr. 
C. P. Gibson; ditto, second prize, Mr. Sharrah, by Mr. 
A. Smith ; junior materia medica, Mr. Hindson, by Mr. 
C. B. Bell; senior chemistry, Mr. Holroyd, by Mr. J. 
Baynes ; junior chemistry, Mr. Thompson, by Mr. Rudd ; 
perseverance, Mr. Pearson, by Messrs. F. Earle and J. 
Baynes. 
“ Mr. Bell obtained the highest number of marks in 
both chemistry and materia medica, and his written 
paper was of the highest order. It is to be regretted 
that a greater number of the class did not compete; and 
I would urge masters and employers to encourage those 
about them, who have given any attention to their stu¬ 
dies, to enter for the examinations, because if they are 
not successful, the competitors gain an idea as to the 
kind of questions they may expect hereafter, and more¬ 
over become initiated into the style and manner of 
writing papers from memory. I am glad to report that 
our class-room is now large and convenient; we are 
gradually getting a supply of useful apparatus, charts, 
etc., and by adding from time to time other specimens, 
preparations and chemical instruments, we shall ulti¬ 
mately obtain a good museum of materia medica, and a 
useful laboratory; and thus be enabled to offer to stu¬ 
dents in the trade a practical course of instruction in 
all they need for their examinations, and this in the 
form of an agreeable and interesting meeting once a 
week.” 
Mr. Niven, curator, Hull Botanic Gardens, reports of 
his class, “ The attendance has been much more regu¬ 
lar than in the previous session, and the attention dis¬ 
played by the young men has been of the most satisfac¬ 
tory character; out of the 18 students only on one occa¬ 
sion was the attendance as low in number as 12. The 
examination was held Sept. 1st, when four of the senior 
and seven of the junior pupils presented themselves. 
Mr. Bousfield obtained the senior prize, Mr. T. W. 
Robinson being nearly equal in number of marks. The 
junior prize was awarded to Mr. AY. II. Lambert, with 
nearly double the number of marks as compared with 
the others. On the whole, the result of the examination, 
both as regards the number attending and the knowledge 
manifested by the replies given, was a great improve¬ 
ment on that which took place at the close of the pre¬ 
vious session. The prizes awai’ded were, 
“ Senior botany, Mr. W. Bousfield, Bentley’s Manual, 
presented by Mr. G. Myers; junior botany, Mr. W. H. 
Lambert, Bentley’s Manual, by Mr. A. Pickering.” 
At the close of the present session it is intended to- 
offer four prizes for competition, viz. senior and junior 
materia medica and pharmacy, and senior and j unior 
chemistry. 
IpmttMnp fit SrnnMc Jtoties. 
AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION, 
The Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the American 
Pharmaceutical Association was opened on Wednesday, 
September 12th, at St. Louis (Missouri), in the hall of 
the Polytechnic building, corner of Chestnut and Seventh. 
Streets. 
The Convention was called to order about half-past 
throe o’clock by the Secretary, Mr. John M. Maisch, 
who stated that in the absence of the President, first 
and second Vice-Presidents, and the death of the third 
Vice-President, it was necessary to elect a President 
pro tem. J. Farris Moore, of Baltimore, Maryland, was 
unanimously elected. 
The list of delegates was then called, and the Com¬ 
mittee on Credentials made their report. 
Objections were made to the credentials of the Michi¬ 
gan University delegates being accepted, on the ground 
that the university was not a school of pharmacy. Its 
rule of graduation is different from that of other phar¬ 
maceutical colleges, as it bestows upon the student his 
certificate of graduation before he has served an actual 
apprenticeship in the practical department, thus giving 
him the title of “Pharmaceutical Chemist” while he has 
only a theoretical knowledge of the business. 
The matter was referred to a committee of representa¬ 
tives present, one being selected from each college. 
The retiring President congratulated the Association 
on its prosperity and the increase in the number of 
members since its foundation. He said the liabilities of 
the Association were now being paid off, and in another 
year they would be entirely extinguished. He recom¬ 
mended that a delegate should be sent to the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Congress which is to be held at St. Petersburg' 
in 1872, as he thought the information to be gained 
would fully compensate them for the expense. 
In the evening the visitors were entertained at the 
Southern Hotel by the committee of St. Louis druggists. 
A large hall in the building where the Conference 
met was fitted up for the exhibition of various objects of 
interest to pharmaceutists. 
failranwntaxg anl> fate frorniings. 
Suicide by Ausenic. 
On October 7th, Mr. Booth, coroner, held an inquiry at 
Hanley as to the death of Mr. Clement Wooldridge, 
builder and brick manufacturer, who died on the pre¬ 
vious day from the effects of arsenic, self-administered. 
Miss Lavinia Wooldridge, deceased’s sister, said her 
brother had been unwell for five or six months, and for 
several days had been peculiar, having a strange look in 
his eyes, and talking queerly. She had never heard him 
threaten to destroy himself, but for some days he did not 
seem to know what he was about. On Friday morning 
she found he had been sick, and, noticing a bluish colour 
in the vomit, asked him what was the matter, to which, 
he replied “bile.” Not being satisfied, she went for Mr. 
Folker, surgeon, who came in about half an hour. De¬ 
ceased was sick again about two hours after, and con- 
