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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. [February 10, 1872. 
London. Tlie material employed is known as 
Cooper’s Patent Salts, and it is stated to have the 
additional advantage of preventing bad smells in 
streets. In a report of the Sanitary and Street 
Cleansing Committee of the Westminster Board of 
Works, it is stated that the saving in horse hire is 
more than sufficient to pay the cost of the salts. A 
further saving, in one hundred days, of 7,000,000 
gallons of water, at 9 d. per gallon, is estimated. 
CREDIT TO WHOM CREDIT IS DUE. 
In some remarks in the January number of the 
American Journal of Pharmacy, the Editor en¬ 
deavours to arouse certain of those gentlemen who 
conduct similar periodicals to a proper sense of a 
failing that seems to be as common on one side of 
the Atlantic as the other. He says— 
“ Our predecessor in the editorial chair of this Journal 
has repeatedly been under the necessity of complaining 
of the disregard of journalistic right by several contem¬ 
poraries, and we are constrained to reiterate the state¬ 
ments made by him at the beginning of the last volume, 
as applicable also for the past year, namely, that a num¬ 
ber of original articles, translations and abridgements, 
furnished to this Journal, have been going the rounds 
under false colours. . We respectfully suggest to editors 
the propriety of giving proper credit to the journal to 
which it may be due, even though but a paragraph or 
two maybe clipped from our ‘Gleanings,’ ‘Varieties,’ 
or original matter. It has been our aim in no case to 
omit such reference.” 
We frequently have reason to complain of a simi¬ 
lar unfairness. Translations of foreign articles and 
abstracts from English ones, prepared especially for 
this Journal, are continually appropriated, sometimes 
even without mention of the original source, and 
seldom with any notice of the intermediate one, 
although the articles bear internal evidence of 
having been taken bodily from our pages. 
On Wednesday evening, at half-past eight, Mr. 
James Collins will read before the Society of Arts 
the paper on Economic Botany which was post¬ 
poned on a former occasion, in consequence of the 
illness of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. The chair 
will be taken by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters'. 
In a recent experiment made in the Botanic Gar¬ 
dens at Melbourne, some cinchona plants which had 
been placed in sheltered parts, have passed quite 
well through the cool season without any cover, 
although the temperature fell sometimes to several 
degrees below freezing. Dr. Mueller considers, 
therefore, that the cinchona might be successfully 
cultivated in the warmer and more sheltered woods 
of Victoria, and particularly instances one valley in 
the Dandenong ranges, where the temperature was 
still one degree above the freezing-point when the 
temperature at the Melbourne Observatory was 
twenty-eight degrees F. below it. 
iransitrtions of % flprnmttatital Jsflcietg. 
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. 
February 1th, 1872. 
MR. A. F. HASELDEN, F.L.S., PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
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Present—Messrs. Atherton, Betty, Bottle, Carr, Frazer, 
Greenish, Groves, Hills, Mackay, Sandford, Savage, 
Shaw, Smith, Stoddart, Sutton, Williams and Woolley. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and con¬ 
firmed. 
The lot for the next Council having been taken in the 
usual manner, the following were declared to go out of 
office, but are eligible for re-election :— 
Betty, Samuel C., 6, Park St., London, N.W. 
Carr, John, 171, High Holborn, London, W.C. 
Frazer, Daniel, 113, Buchanan Street, Glasgow. 
Hills, Thomas Hyde, 338, Oxford St., London, W. 
Shaw, John, 24, Great George Place, Liverpool. 
Smith, Edward, 8, The Strand, Torquay. 
Woolley, Geo. S., 67, Market St., Manchester. 
The following members remain as members of the 
Council for the ensuing year :— 
Atherton, John Henry', Long Row, Nottingham. 
Brown, Wm. Scott, 113, Market Street, Manchester. 
Greenish, T., 20, New St., Dorset Sq., London, N.W. 
Haselden, Adolphus F., 18, Conduit St., London,W- 
Mackay, John, 119, George Street, Edinburgh. 
Sandford, George Webb, 47, Piccadilly, London, W. 
Williams, John, 10, New Cavendish Street, W. 
The following seven go out hy rotation, but are eligible 
for re-election :—• 
Bottle, Alexander, 37, Townwall Street, Dover. 
Edwards, George, Hartford. 
Groves, Thomas B., 80, St. Mary Street, Weymouth. 
Reynolds, Richard, 13, Briggate, Leeds. 
Savage, Wm. Dawson, Upper Bedford St., Brighton. 
Stoddart, Wm. Walter, 9, North Street, Bristol. 
Sutton, Francis, Bank Plain, Norwich. 
The Report of the Finance Committee was presented, 
showing on the General Fund Account a balance in the 
Treasurer’s hands of.£749. 8s. 9 cL 
On the Benevolent Fund Account a 
balance of.£170. 13s. 5d . 
The Report of the Finance Committee was received 
and adopted and sundry payments ordered. Mr. How r - 
lett having completed the cases and table for the Mu¬ 
seum, the sum of £58, as per contract, was ordered to 
be paid to him. 
The Report of the Benevolent Fund Committee was 
received and adopted, and a grant of £10 made to the 
widow of a Registered Chemist and Druggist, late of 
Sunderland. 
Resolved—That the list of subscriptions and donations 
to the Benevolent Fund be published monthly in 
the Journal and Transactions of the Society. 
The Report of the Auditors on the Financial State¬ 
ment for 1871 was received and adopted. 
Mr. Woolley thought that, if a professional accountant 
were employed to draw up the annual Financial State¬ 
ment, it might he put in a form more intelligible to the 
general members of the Society. A considerable discus¬ 
sion ensued, and it was ultimately pointed out by Mr. 
Bottle that, according to the provisions of the Charter, 
the auditors must he members of the Society. 
Resolved—That the Registrar’s Report, as now pre¬ 
sented, be entered on the Minutes, and published iru 
the Journal and Transactions of the Society. 
