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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[March 2,1873. 
0f l^rmaautial Sirridj. 
EXAMINATIONS IN LONDON. 
February 21 st, 1872. 
MAJOR EXAMINATION. 
Six candidates were examined; of these, four failed. 
The following two passed, and were declared duly qua¬ 
lified to he registered as 
PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS. 
Pratt, Henry James.Thirsk. 
Goodliffe, George.Hammersmith. 
These names are arranged in order of merit. 
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. 
The Certificate of the College of Preceptors was received 
from the undermentioned in lieu of this Examination:— 
Rowland, Edward Edisbury . .Liverpool. 
February 2\st and 23 rd, 1872. 
MINOR EXAMINATION. 
Thirty-one candidates were examined; of these, six 
failed. The following twenty-five passed, and were de¬ 
clared duly qualified to be^registered as 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
*Horrod, Thomas Samuel.Lincoln. 
* Parson, Henry James.Birmingham. 
* Rutter, Thomas Dixon .Scarborough. 
*Badcock, Daniel .Barnard Castle. 
* Jones, William.Louth. 
* Rigby, James .Liverpool. 
^Griffith, Richard William Smith. Southampton. 
*Green, Yittery.London. 
*Pank, Philip Durrell .North Walsham. 
George, John .Kidderminster. 
Langham, Henry John .Diss. 
•3 ( Ashworth, Amos .London. 
w \ Griffith, John .Hastings. 
Cadoux, Samuel Henry .Colchester. 
Cowdery, Frederic .Reading. 
Downes, Charles Hagger _London. 
Greatrex, Thomas James .... London. 
Bolton, Charles Alfred .Nottingham. 
Edwards, Thomas .Newport, Monm. 
j ( Davies, Peter Hughes.Peterborough. 
£ \ Newbery, Albert Edward ... .Exeter. 
Clark, John .Dumfries. 
Hopkinson, Thomas.Grantham. 
Luke, Richard Samuel .Plymouth. 
Cox, Edwm Joseph.Havant. 
These names are arranged in order of merit. 
BOTANICAL PRIZE FOR 1873. 
_ A Silver Council Medal is offered for the best Herba¬ 
rium, collected in any part of the United Kingdom be¬ 
tween the first day of May, 1872, and the first day of 
June, 1873 ; and should there be more than one collec¬ 
tion possessing such an amount of merit as to entitle the 
* Passed with honours. 
collector to reward, a second prize, consisting of a 
Bronze Medal, and also Certificates of Honour and 
Merit, will be given at the discretion of the Council. 
In the event of none of the collections possessing such 
an amount of merit as to warrant the Council in award¬ 
ing Medals or Certificates, none will be given. 
The collections to consist of Flowering plants and 
Ferns, arranged according to the Natural System of De- 
Candolle, or any other natural method in common use, 
and to be accompanied by lists, arranged according to- 
the same method, with the species numbered. 
The collector to follow some work on British Botany 
(such as that of Babington, Hooker, or Bentham), and 
to state the work which ho adopts. The name of each 
plant, its habitat and the date of collection, to be stated 
on the paper on which it is preserved. 
Each collection to be accompanied by a note, contain¬ 
ing a declaration, signed by the collector, and certified 
by his employer, or a Pharmaceutical Chemist to w r hom 
the collector is known, to the following effect:—Tbe- 
plants which accompany this note were collected by 
myself, between the first day of May, 1872, and the 
first day of June, 1873, and were named and arranged 
without any assistance but that derived from books. 
In estimating the merits of the collections, not only 
wall the number of species bo taken into account, but 
also their rarity or otherwise, and the manner in which 
they are preserved; and should a specimen be wrongly 
named, it will be erased from the list. 
The collections to be forwarded to the Secretary of 
the Society, 17, Bloomsbury Square, on or before the first 
day of July, 1873, indorsed “Herbarium for Competition, 
for the Botanical Prizes.” After the announcement of 
the award, they will be retained one month, under the- 
care of the Curator of the Museum, for the inspection of 
persons connected with the Society, and then returned 
to the collectors, if required. 
No candidate will be allowed to compete, unless he be¬ 
an Associate, Registered Apprentice, or a Student of the- 
Society, or if his age exceed twenty-one years. 
FREE ADMISSIONS TO THE ROYAL BOTANIC 
SOCIETY’S GARDENS, REGENT’S PARK. 
The following pupils of the class of Botany and Ma¬ 
teria Medica, in the Pharmaceutical Society, after exa¬ 
mination by Professor Bentley, have had, at his request,, 
free admission to the gardens in Regent’s Park given, 
to them by the Secretary of the Royal Botanic So¬ 
ciety :— 
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Mr. Joseph Henry Aldridge. 
Daniel Badcock. 
William Brewster. 
Edward L. Cleaver. 
Arthur B. Cortis. 
Robert Higgins Davies. 
„ Henry Edmonds. 
„ George P. Fairman. 
„ John Joseph Faraker. 
Alfred W. Green. 
Frederick J. Hanbury. 
E. Grindle Hogg. 
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James M. Hucklebridge. 
Mr. Frederick W. Jasper. 
„ James Stephen Kent. 
Edward Lewis. 
John Thomas Lincoln. 
Robert Mills. 
Edward Rammell. 
Charles H. Russell. 
William A. Shenstone. 
Edwin Tebbutt. 
Edmund John Thring. 
ThomasWm. Townley. 
Richard Trist. 
Joseph Walker. 
The above names are ranged in alphabetical order. 
These orders will admit to the Gardens upon any 
ordinary day in the months of March, April and August, 
from 9 a.m. till 1 i\m. : and in May, June and July, from. 
7 a.m. till 1 p.m. Such admissions, therefore, afford 
every facility to those who possess them, of making; 
themselves practically acquainted with plants. 
