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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. [December 16,1871. 
if any just cause of complaint be found against a mem¬ 
ber of this College of having violated the rules or the 
spirit of our Association, to bring the case before a spe¬ 
cial or the next general meeting of the College, when 
the accused, after being heard in his own defence, may 
be expelled by a two-thirds vote. 
THE CHICAGO COLLEGE FUND. 
We are glad to be enabled to say that already the 
response to the appeal on behalf of the Chicago School 
nf Pharmacy has been very favourable. The Com¬ 
mittee has just issued a preliminary circular, and we 
purpose announcing the resulting subscriptions in 
our issue for next week. 
We are informed by Professor Attfield that Dr. 
J. L. Soubeiran has written that he and his col¬ 
leagues at the College of Pharmacy at Paris desire 
to contribute to the Fund, and that he will shortly 
forward a case of hooks to London for that purpose. 
In consequence of the illness of H.R.IT. the 
Prince of Wales, the Royal Society and the So¬ 
ciety of Arts will not hold meetings next week. Mr. 
-Collins’s lecture on Economic Botany before the 
latter Society will he therefore postponed. 
It is announced that the Great Exhibition of 
Arts, Manufactures and Science, at Moscow, will be 
opened on the lltli of June, 1872. The applications 
of persons desiring to become exhibitors must be 
made to the Committee of the Exliibition in Moscow 
before the 12th of January, 1872. 
At a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of 
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, it was re¬ 
solved that, should it be found impracticable to 
resume the lectures at the Chicago College of Phar¬ 
macy during the coming winter, •matriculation 
tickets, and such lecture tickets as they may have 
paid for should be offered to the matriculants of the 
Uliicago College, free of charge, for the present 
session. 
In connection with the Philadelphia College also, a 
movement was recently set on foot to obtain the earlier 
closing of dispensing stores than heretofore. After 
several meetings and canvassing the city, the phar¬ 
macists of Philadelphia have resolved to close in 
future at 10 p.m., and a circular has been issued 
soliciting the co-operation of the public. 
A decision having been recently obtained by the 
Parisian pliarmaciens of the first class, to the effect 
that pliarmaciens of the second class could not carry 
on business in Paris although holding diplomas 
granted by the Minister of Public Instruction upon 
the certificates of competency accorded by the pro¬ 
fessors and fellows of the Ecole Superieure de Pliar- 
macie at Paris, an appeal was carried to the Court 
of Appeal of that city. The Court decided in favour 
of the Appellants, relieving them from the damages 
that had been pronounced against them in the lower 
court, and condemning the pliarmaciens of the first 
class in the costs of the suit. It is stated that the 
pliarmaciens of the first class intend to appeal to a 
higher court. 
fruMniial iransaxtions. 
MANCHESTER CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ 
'ASSOCIATION. 
An ordinary Monthly Meeting was held in the Memo¬ 
rial Hall, Albert Square, on Friday evening, December 
1st ; Mr. George S. Woolley in the chair. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., delivered a very 
interesting lecture on “ The Natural History of the 
Mineral Substances used in Medicine.” The structure 
and probable mode of formation of various rocks, mi¬ 
neral veins, etc. were explained, after which, the Pro¬ 
fessor, aided by a splendid collection of mineralogical 
specimens, described the sources of the metals used in 
medicine. The attendance of associates was much larger 
than usual, and the lecture was listened to with evident 
pleasure and interest. 
HALIFAX CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
The Annual Meeting of the Halifax Chemists and 
Druggists’ Association was held on Thursday, December 
7, 1871 ; Mr. Stott, President, in the chair. 
After the minutes of last meeting had been passed, the 
Secretary read the report of the Committee for the 
past year, of which the following are the principal topics. 
Like other local societies, the Halifax Association had 
to regret a falling off in the attendance at the Latin and 
chemistry classes, and a lukewarmness on the part of ap¬ 
prentices to avail themselves of the means placed at their 
disposal for adapting themselves to the altered circum¬ 
stances of the times. It was pointed out that the time 
may come when, if they persist in neglecting the oppor¬ 
tunity in their youth, they will be weighed in the balance 
and found wanting. This is plainly shown by the large 
number of youths plucked by the examiners every 
quarter. The report urged upon members to impress upon 
their apprentices that youth is the best time for study, 
and to deprecate the bad policy of trusting to something 
turning up, and, probably, at the last having to make 
up for lost time by cramming. The possibility of the 
Pharmaceutical Society soon ceasing to be an educating 
body was referred to, and an opinion expressed that such 
an act would place more responsibility on local associa¬ 
tions and individual chemists, if not make a total change 
in the apprenticeship system altogether. The Associa¬ 
tion had offered active opposition to the proposed poison 
regulations. The Committee respectfully called attention 
to the value and importance of chemists and druggists’ 
associations, banded together for their trade interests 
and mutual good. Had the trade been as formerly, 
without any cohesion in the body,—nothing more, in fact, 
than a rope of sand,—it is not assuming too much to be¬ 
lieve that the Poison Bill, introduced by the Government, 
would have been passed. It was anything but a pleasant 
sight to witness the manner in which the Council dealt 
with the poison difficulty; pitted and divided against 
itself, it failed to exercise any amount of influence for 
good on the right side, and it behoves them to consider 
whether they could look to the Council as their guide in 
the future. In conclusion, an appeal was made for con¬ 
tinued support to the Association. Though thinly at¬ 
tended, the meetings had not been held in vain. They 
had rounded off a few of the many sharp corners and 
angles that protruded a little too far, and the mingling 
together had been the means of dispersing not a few 
doubts and jealousies that had existed. 
Mr. Farr, in moving the adoption of the report, con¬ 
gratulated the Society on having reached its fourth year 
of existence, which showed that it was built upon a firm 
basis. He was very much pleased at the success of the 
recent early closing movement, and thought the thanks 
