February 17,1872.] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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frubinrial fettsatfioits. 
OLDHAM CHEMISTS’ ASSISTANTS AND 
APPRENTICES’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Second Annual Meeting of the above Association 
was held at the Church Institute, St. Peter’s Street, on 
the 10th ult.; the business of the evening commenced 
by the reading of the Secretary’s report, which was as 
follows, viz.:— 
Your Committee have again the pleasure of presenting 
a satisfactory report of the condition and prospects of 
your Association. Though the number of members has 
slightly decreased, several having left the town, and a 
few declined to renew their subscriptions, the Associa¬ 
tion still remains in a satisfactory condition, and on a 
level with many other Societies in England. 
During the past session twenty-four ordinary meetings 
have been held, and at six of those meetings the follow¬ 
ing papers were read:—“On the Latin Language,” by 
the Rev. A. Peaton; “ On the Structure of Plants,” by 
Mr. Bateman; “ On Dispensing,” by Mr. Taylor ; “ On 
Opium and its Preparations,” by Mr. Lightfoot; “On 
Rhubarb,” by Mr. Wood; “ On Chamomile and its Pre¬ 
parations,” by Mr. Potts. 
Since the last annual meeting, only two members have 
been successful in passing any examination, but we hope 
during the coming session, more of our members will 
have the gratification of being successful, both in their 
Preliminary and Minor examinations. 
Several donations of money from private individuals 
have been received, and duly acknowledged, and the 
Pharmaceutical Journal has also been received weekly. 
The objects for which your Association labours, viz. 
the scientific education of assistants and apprentices, 
mutual improvement, and cordial intercourse, are so im¬ 
portant to the whole trade, that your Committee again 
urges you to make them widely known amongst your 
pharmaceutical and other friends in business, and by 
thus strengthening our funds, enable us to carry out 
our original design, viz. the possession of premises under 
our own control for constant use. 
As will be seen from the Treasurer’s report, your Com¬ 
mittee have a balance in hand (after paying all expenses) 
of 19s. 8 d. 
The following members were elected officers for the 
present year, viz.:— President, John Taylor, re-elected; 
Vice-President , James Radcliffe, re-elected; Secretary , S. 
Bateman; Treasurer , J. W. Platt. 
A vote of thanks to the retiring officers concluded the 
business of the meeting. 
BRISTOL PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. 
A Special General Meeting of the Association was 
held on Friday, February 2nd, 1872; Mr. Townsend, Pre¬ 
sident, in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
The President stated that, in compliance with the re¬ 
solution of the previous meeting, the Council had met 
twice to discuss the subject of the “ hours of closing,” 
and had finally agreed to present the following re¬ 
port :— 
The Council have to report that they have carefully 
considered the question of the hours of closing business 
usually adopted by pharmacists in Bristol and Clifton, 
and they are of opinion that it is neither necessary nor 
desirable that pharmacists should keep open their places 
of business later than other tradesmen in their several 
neighbourhoods, due provision being made for the supply 
of necessary medicines and the dispensing of prescriptions 
in all cases of emergency; and that, as it is of the utmost 
importance alike for the safety of. the public and the 
welfare of the future members of the trade, that all 
assistants and apprentices should have proper and suffi¬ 
cient time for study, they consider that some shortening 
of the hours for general business is needed. 
They therefore strongly recommended all members of 
the trade to make such arrangements as will relieve the 
assistants and apprentices in time for the regular atten¬ 
dance upon the lectures provided by the Association ; 
and although fully aware that special difficulties prevent 
the immediate adoption of a uniform hour for closing, 
urge upon all their brethren to support them in a move¬ 
ment which they hope will eventually lead to the general 
adoption of seven o’clock as the hour for closing their 
establishments, the doors being finally closed at eight 
o’clock. 
The Council are convinced that such a change must 
be gradual, and be governed to some extent by the cir¬ 
cumstances affecting various districts in the city, and 
they therefore consider it sufficient to submit their views 
to the Association, in the hope that so far as possible all 
members will assist to bring about a change which must 
result in lasting benefit to the public, the employers and 
the employed. 
The report having been read and discussed, was 
eventually adopted. 
It was further resolved “ that the report be printed 
and circulated amongst the members of the trade in 
Bristol, Clifton and the entire district, and that the 
Council be requested to take such other steps as they may 
deem necessary to acquaint the public with these pro¬ 
ceedings.” 
MANCHESTER CHEMISTS’ ASSISTANTS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
A Meeting was held at Mitre Chambers, February 6th, 
when a paper was read by Mr. Arkle, entitled “Notes.” 
In introducing his subject, the reader urged a more ge¬ 
neral adoption of Captain Cuttle’s advice, “When found, 
make a note of,” reminding those present, that know¬ 
ledge was an accumulation of apparently trivial facts, 
which ought to be secured before they pass to the region 
of forgetfulness. 
Reference was then made to eminent men—Bacon, 
Faraday and others—who owed much of their greatness 
to the practice of making “ notes;” and these certainly 
different to the hieroglyphics we sometimes see, or the 
hasty confused specimens of writing, which, after a 
hour, are as unintelligible as the Chinese characters on a 
tea-caddy,—the labour bestowed on a paper being well- 
nigh wasted if the information it was intended to con¬ 
vey was not secured, and made available for use at some 
future time. 
The paper concluded with several notes of difficulties 
met with in the ordinary routine of business. 
On Tuesday, Feb. 20th, a paper on “ Elementary Bo¬ 
tany’ ’ will be read by Mr. Clarke. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Seventh General Meeting was held at the Royal 
Institution; the President, Mr. E. Davies, F.C.S., in the 
The following donations were announced: Current^ 
numbers of the Pharmaceutical Journal , the Journal oj 
