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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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The session is now inaugurated, and its success de¬ 
pends upon you. The President has his duties,'and will 
try to fulfil them; you have yours (strange as it may 
.sound), and may I call upon you not to he mere reci¬ 
pients of the good things of others, but to be fellow- 
labourers. 
I look for your co-operation and support. I take the 
•chair with pleasure, as marking your appreciation, but 
not with self-confidence. With your help, I look for¬ 
ward to meetings pleasant and also profitable, and, when 
1 lay down my office, shall be rejoiced to find that, in 
my hands, the Association has not suffered loss, but has 
"been made more helpful to the best interests of the 
• pharmacists and also to the chemists of Liverpool. 
Mr. Shaw said he rose with much pleasure to propose 
a vote of thanks to the President for his able and prac¬ 
tical address. The remarks in respect to adulteration 
he fully endorsed, and considered the admixture of in¬ 
nocuous substances with medicine or food highly cen¬ 
surable, although they might not be positively injurious 
to the system. The educational question was now 
coming prominently to the front, especially as regards 
the provinces, and will require to be dealt with more 
vigorously. Repeated applications for grants of money 
for the provinces had been before the Council in London 
during the past twelve months, and it was a subject re¬ 
quiring very careful consideration. The changes which 
had been brought about by the passing of the Pharmacy 
Act, pointed to the establishment of centres of education, 
and he hoped that Liverpool would not be behindhand. 
He alluded to the efforts made by the Birmingham Local 
Association to procure an efficient and inexpensive edu¬ 
cation on pharmaceutical subjects. With regard to our 
•own Association, the President had rightly stated that 
membership of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association was 
not confined to those following the profession of phar¬ 
macy, but included all who took an interest in the ad¬ 
vancement of chemical science, and he trusted now that 
he (Mr. Davies) occupied the presidential chair, he would 
•draw around him many young men who were engaged 
in the various chemical and other works in Liverpool 
.-and vicinity, and that the Association would continue to 
prosper and afford facilities for the instruction of the 
rising generation of pharmaceutists. 
Mr. J. Abraham seconded the motion, which was 
carried with acclamation. 
The President returned thanks, urging upon students 
the necessity of studying at home before coming to the 
lectures, if they wished to make satisfactory improve¬ 
ment. 
MANCHESTER CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
The Third Annual Meeting of the above Association 
was held in the Memorial Hall, Albert Square, on Friday 
evening, October 13th ; the President, Mr. W. S. Brown, 
in the chair. 
The Honorary Secretary, Mr. F. Baden Benger, read 
the following Annual Report: — 
Your Council have again the pleasure of presenting a 
satisfactory report of the condition and prospects of your 
Association. Though the number of members and asso¬ 
ciates has slightly decreased, several having left* the 
neighbourhood and a few declined to renew their sub¬ 
scriptions, the Association maintains its position as the 
largest provincial society of chemists and druggists, and 
inferior to none either in the importance of the work it 
has originated or the energy with which its objects have 
h»en promoted. 
During the past session six ordinary monthly meetings 
have been held, at each of which a paper or lecture was 
given by a member:—“On Pharmaceutical Education 
.and Apprenticeship,” by Mr. F. Baden Benger; “ On 
Heat,” by Mr. J. T. Slugg, F.R.A.S.; “ On Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Examinations,” by Mr. Siebold ; “ On the Import¬ 
ance of Some Knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology to 
the Pharmacists,” by Mr. Hampson ; “ On Dispensing,” 
by Mr. Halliday; “ On the Stars,” by Mr. J. T. Slugg, 
F. R.A.S. 
The associates of the Society also met weekly, during 
the winter months, in the Reading Room; at each meet¬ 
ing a paper was provided and a general discussion fol¬ 
lowed. Considerable additions have been made to the 
library, by purchase and donations. Mr. Joseph Ince 
may perhaps be specially alluded to as the donor of a 
very valuable collection of autograph prescriptions, 
which has proved so useful to the students. The read¬ 
ing-room has been opened three evenings a week during 
the year, and students have been admitted at any hour 
on application to the Honorary Secretary. Copies of the 
Lancet , Pharmaceutical Journal , Nature , Chemical News 
and the Chemist and Druggist have been laid on the table 
as published. The expense to the Association, thus in¬ 
curred, for rent, gas, attendance, etc. has been great, but 
your Council believes that this effort to meet the require¬ 
ments of assistants and apprentices has been appreciated 
by them. 
The number of students attending the special phar¬ 
maceutical courses at Owens College was as follows :— 
Chemistry, 19; Materia Medica, 16; Pharmacy, 17. 
The Botanical Course and the Latin Classes were open 
to others as well as pharmacy students, and the attend¬ 
ance was consequently much larger. Eight pharmacy 
students entered for three or more courses, and thus be¬ 
came entitled to the reduction in fees afforded by the 
College. 
The special prizes given by your Association were 
awarded by the professors as follows :— 
Chemistry Lectures. —Prize and First Certificate, Alfred 
H. Jackson ; Second ditto, William Marsh ; Third ditto, 
Walter Twelvetrees ; Fourth ditto, Thomas Hart. 
Materia Medica. —Prize and First Certificate, Alfred 
H. Jackson; Second ditto, John Thorpe; Third ditto, 
William Marsh. 
Pharmacy. —Prize and First Certificate, Alfred II. 
Jackson; Second ditto, Frederick Richard Cooper; 
Richard E. Taylor; Fourth ditto, Charles James Wilcox. 
Mr. A. H. Jackson took also the Second Certificate in 
the Lower Middle Latin Class and the Prize and First 
Certificate in the Botany Class ; and Mr. William Marsh 
took the only certificate given in the first year’s course 
of the Chemistry Laboratory Class. 
A sum of three guineas has been presented by Mr. T. 
G. Gibbons, to be offered as a prize in any way your 
Council shall decide. The conditions upon which this 
prize may be competed for will be shortly announced. 
At one of the monthly meetings of the past session 
the consideration of the proposed poison regulations was 
referred to your Council, with a request to take action 
thereon; this resulted, as is known to most of you, in 
the formation of the “ Chemists’ Defence Association,” 
a society numbering upwards of 500 members. This 
Association, in conjunction with the “Metropolitan” 
and “North British” Associations, established with 
similar objects, was mainly instrumental in organizing a 
successful opposition to the Amended Pharmacy Act. 
The monthly meetings of last session were held alter¬ 
nately in the afternoon and evening of the first Friday 
in the month, tea being provided half an hour before 
the commencement of business at the evening meetings ; 
by this means, pleasant social intercourse was promoted. 
And it is now proposed to hold all the meetings in the 
evening, in order to afford as many assistants and ap¬ 
prentices as possible the opportunity of attending; the 
chair will be taken at 9 p.m., instead of 7. Tea, coffee 
and refreshments will be provided at half-past 7. Pro¬ 
fessor Williamson, F.R.S., will lecture at one of the 
forthcoming meetings; and for the remainder, well-known 
members of the Association have promised papers on 
subjects of much general interest: your Council trusts 
