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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[November 4,1871. 
had been called upon to speak of pharmacy in America. 
Had they any idea what pharmacy in America was ? 
Pharmacy in England was represented by a district 
some 600 miles from end to end ; but to speak in any 
general terms of pharmacy in the great continent of 
America would, unless one had very full time for con¬ 
sideration, a very long paper to do it in, and a very 
patient meeting to read it to, be simply an absurdity. 
And yet pharmacy in America was very similar to phar¬ 
macy in England. Take it all in all, he did not find 
in the few weeks he spent in the United States, any very 
marvellous difference between the pharmacy or pharma¬ 
cists of the two countries. It had been told to one or two 
of the American pharmacists that he, in a semi-official 
capacity, purposed to visit the United States and to attend 
the meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association 
in St. Louis. Almost before his baggage had passed the 
Customs House, he was saluted by a pharmacist of New 
York, who had come down to the landing stage to meet 
him, and to see that he was comfortably provided for. And 
from that moment till the time of his departure he never 
ceased to experience their kindness and their thought¬ 
fulness. That was the best testimony he could give to 
pharmacy in America. But here they were met to con¬ 
sider pharmacy in a somewhat different aspect from its 
relation to hospitality, and hence came his embarrass¬ 
ment. He scarcely knew, unless they woufd tell him, 
upon what salient points of pharmacy he was to speak. 
Mr. Howden had told them, in far better language than 
he could command, what pharmacy was as a business 
throughout the States; and ho (Mr. Brady) feared 
that if he went into matters of pharmaceutical science 
without deliberation, he should only come to grief. 
Whilst he was in America he saw something of phar¬ 
macy in, perhaps, the six largest cities of the Union, 
—in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Balti¬ 
more, St. Louis, and Chicago ; and he did not find 
amongst the leading pharmacists, amongst whom he 
had the pleasure chiefly of moving, any great difference 
from the same class of men in half-a-dozen of the largest 
towns in England and Scotland. There were some 
differences, but these w'ere in matters of detail, depend¬ 
ing on the somewhat altered conditions of life. He must, 
therefore, if he were to say anything, talk about the 
meeting of the Pharmaceutical Association in St. Louis, 
because, in that respect he had his one advantage over 
Mr. Howden. At the meeting at St. Louis he found 
assembled the leading pharmaceutists of America, men 
whom they all knew so well by name,— Professors Proctor, 
Parrish, Maisch, Ebert, Bedford, and the rest; and was 
delighted to find one representative of Great Britain 
besides himself, Mr. Saunders, of London, Ontario,—a 
better man to represent the Dominion of Canada in the 
Pharmaceutical Convention of America there could not 
be. The Convention at St. Louis did not differ so very 
much from one of those Conferences which many present 
had the pleasure to attend from year to year in Great 
Britain. Papers were read, discussions indulged in, a 
largo amount of social entertainment took place, in fact, 
it was just one of those occasions that seemed calculated 
to make pharmaceutists think a great deal better of each 
other; it was a gathering eminently qualified to make 
head against the tendency that trade had to make one 
forget professional etiquette. He did not wish to make 
comparisons, because the American Pharmaceutical As¬ 
sociation did not represent exactly the British Pharma¬ 
ceutical Conference. The American Association repre¬ 
sented the United States as a whole; therefore, if they 
compared the results shown at one of these conventions 
with the work done in England during the year, they 
must take the work of the Pharmaceutical Society and the 
Pharmaceutical Conference jointly as representing Great 
Britain. And really he was very glad to find that there 
was some mitigating circumstance of that sort, because | 
the amount of good, solid earnest investigation, the 
results of which were brought forward at the four days’ 
meeting in St. Louis would, he confessed, have made 
him feel just a little doubtful in making a comparison 
between that meeting and a meeting of the British Phar¬ 
maceutical Conference. He would mention specially 
the amount of valuable research that was brought for¬ 
ward in their “Beports,” such as, for instance, that on 
the Progress of Pharmacy, or the Beport on the Drug 
Trade, or that on Adulterations and Sophistications 
which were brought forward at the meeting, and he did 
not know that in England they could show anything 
parallel to them. He regretted to have to say so, but it 
would not be right towards this Society, nor just to 
them, to withhold it. There were some points—and upon 
these special points he did not intend to speak—in which 
he rather preferred English ways to American. He went 
to America to see, to listen, and to learn ; and he trusted 
that, if he had learned aught, when the events of the last 
two or three months had come to something like a reason¬ 
able focus in his brain, he might be able to speak better 
about them. But, at present, he could think of little 
except the kindness, the consideration, the constant wel¬ 
come ho received, the inquiries after pharmacists in 
England, the delight evinced in hearing of any success 
that had come to pharmacy in this country, and of tho 
brotherly feeling displayed in every possible way, and 
on every occasion, whilst he was amongst their friends 
in America. 
The President remarked that, after what they had 
heard, he was sure they would not find fault with him 
for having suggested that Mr. Brady should address 
them that evening. 
Mr. Thomas Greenish, F.C.S., then read a paper on 
“ Pharmacy in North Germany and Austria,” which will 
be found printed at p. 363. 
The discussion on Mr. Greenish’s paper was deferred 
to the next meeting ; and, in addition to this discussion, 
the President announced that papers would be read 
on “ The Substitution of Proportional Numbers for Spe¬ 
cified Weights and Measures in the Description of Pro¬ 
cesses in the Pharmacopoeia,” by Professor Bed wood, 
and on a “ Method for the Estimation of Morphia in 
Opium,” by Mr. John T. Miller. 
The meeting then adjourned to Wednesday, December 
6th. 
HULL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Third Annual Meeting of this Association was 
held at the Cross Keys Hotel on the 19th of October. 
The Secretary having read the report and the balance 
sheet for the past year, the adoption of the same was 
moved by the President (Mr. Baynes), and seconded by 
the Vice-President. (Mr. Smith). 
The election of officers for the ensuing year was then 
proceeded with, when Mr. A. Pickering was elected Pre¬ 
sident, Mr. H. Smith, Vice-President, Mr. C. B. Bell, 
Hon. Sec. and Treasurer, and Messrs. Stanning, Baynes, 
Earle and Myers, on the Committee. 
Cordial votes of thanks were accorded to the retiring 
officers for their services during the past year, which 
were respectively acknowledged. 
The chemical and materia medica session will com¬ 
mence on Thursday evening, the 26th of October, at the 
Society’s room in the Church Institute: lecturer, W. A. 
Budd, Esq., M.B.C.S. 
LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Annual Meeting of this Society was held in the 
library’ on Wednesday, October 25th, 1871; the Presi¬ 
dent, Mr. Smeeton, in the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and. 
