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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS 
[March 16, 183. 
original conditions Laving proved too generous when 
reduced to practice. It may "be noted that the resolu¬ 
tion of April 5th, adopting the conditions, does not with¬ 
draw nor allude in any way to the original conditions, 
whilst the retention of a considerable part of their 
phraseology may have disguised the complete change of 
•system that was being made. 
Mr. Reynolds claimed that the original conditions 
(doubtless capable of improvement and further extension) 
were not open to the charge of entire inadequacy now 
brought by the Sheffield Chemists’ Association against 
the new conditions. He could not but connect such a 
•change as had been made with the present method of 
reporting the proceedings of the Council. Those mem¬ 
bers of the Council who objected to their constituents 
being informed of their proceedings through professional 
reporters, had staved off the evil day by devising a plan 
under which three members sent for publication what 
they pleased. It might have been expected that the 
reasons for so great a change as that made in the con¬ 
ditions would have been described to the Council by the 
mover or seconder of the resolution ; and if so, the absence 
•of any report is a similar treatment to that applied to 
•debates on provincial education upon other occasions. 
Members of the Society might with advantage notice 
that whilst these discussions were withheld, the amateur 
reporters exercised their functions by publishing such 
important facts as the following: “ Mr. Howlett, having- 
completed some cases and a table, the sum of £58 was 
ordered to be paid to him.” 
Mr. Reynolds begged the indulgence of the meeting 
for now offering a few of the opinions which had been 
impressed upon his mind by a frequent consideration of 
this subject. Firstly, all must be agreed that some other 
.agency was required beyond the Society's School at 
Bloomsbury Square and the “ grinders.” Supposing the 
Council to establish three or four schools of pharmacy in 
the provinces, it was evident that it could not exercise a 
proper control and management over them. If they 
were the property of the Society, its Council could not 
-delegate to any other body or bodies their control. It 
Avas clear that local schools must be under local manage¬ 
ment, and the plan of grants in aid of local efforts seemed 
to guarantee success, as far as this was possible, for it 
fused into one the powers of “the men” and “the 
money.” Mutual co-operation at the present period of 
transition would be likely to solve one of our first wants 
in connection with the subject, viz. the supply of suitable 
teachers for schools of pharmacy. With the guarantee 
which could be given by organization, qualified persons 
would venture upon the new field, and gradually take 
their places as essential members of our national system 
• of pharmacy. When this was once done, they might 
rely with as much certainty upon the ordinary laws of 
supply and demand as does a great city in "the vital 
question of its food supply. 
During the discussion which followed, Mr. Abbott 
stated that an attempt had been made to get up a botany 
class in connection with another institution in the town ; 
only three persons joined the class, and, in consequence, 
it was given up. 
Air. J. Clap ham would prefer that an attempt be made 
to have classes in connection with their own Society 
during the day, and would be glad to contribute £10 
towards the expenses. Before asking the Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Council to assist them, they should show that they 
were really in earnest. 
Mr. J. N. Horsfield was in favour of increasing the 
facilities for students. 
Mr. P. Jefferson thought that if a young man -was 
disposed to learn, he would make progress with very little 
.assistance beyond good and proper books; and suggested 
that aid might be given to students by making some 
allowance from the published prices of the books re- 
■quired. 
The Honorary Secretary reminded the meeting that 
a botany class had been held two years ago betwien 
7 and 8 o’clock in the morning, for which upward; of 
twenty tickets were taken, and the attendance was wry 
satisfactory; a similar course might be tried duringthe 
summer. The Committee had frequently had the qies- 
tion of providing the classes during the day broight 
before them, in order to afford opportunities for yung 
men in the neighbouring towns and villages to ;ome 
and attend these classes. The difficulty of obtainhg a 
teacher at such times had not yet been overcome. Ho 
proposed the following resolution :— 
“ That whilst the Pharmaceutical Society may give 
valuable aid and encouragement towards provincialphar- 
maceutical education, this meeting considers the pwers 
of the present amended conditions for making grants 
and loans should be enlarged.” 
Mr. Abbott seconded the resolution. 
The President was glad that the subject had teen so 
well ventilated, and quite coincided with the words of 
the resolution. It was certainly not the provinceof the 
Council to establish schools of pharmacy in the provinces, 
but they could properly aid such societies as these which 
had been established for educational purposes. 
The resolution was carried unanimously. 
f nrmiings cf Sricntifa isaMci. 
CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 
Thursday, 7th March, 1872; Prof. Wil.iamson, 
F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. In the ourse of 
the ordinary business of the Society, the proposed 
changes in the officers and council of the Society for the 
ensuing year were announced. Dr. Debus F.R.S., 
then read a paper “ On the Reduction of Ethyli Oxalate 
by Sodium Amalgam.” In 1864 Dr. Friedlmder de¬ 
scribed, as the result of this reaction, the promotion of 
the sodium salt of a new acid which he namedglycolinic 
acid. Although the author has carefully repated Dr. 
Friedlandor’s experiments and varied the det.ils of the 
process in different ways, he has been unabh to obtain 
glycolinic acid, the only acids formed being gkcollic and 
tartaric. A comparison of the crystalline form of a 
specimen of sodium glycolinate prepared by Iriedlander 
with that of sodium glycollate, would seem to indicate 
that it is identical with the latter. Two cher papers 
were also read, one “ On Metastannic Acd and the 
Detection and Estimation of Tin,” by A. H. Allen, 
F.C.S.; and the other, “Note on the Quantity of 
Caesium contained in the water of the Pot Springs 
found at Wheal Clifford,” by Col. Pump Yorke, 
F.R.S., from which it appears that a galon of this 
water contains 26 grs. of lithium chloride anc one million 
parts 1*7 of caesium chloride, or more than en times as 
much of the latter as the Diirkheim water, in which it 
will be remembered that element was first detected by 
Kirchoff and Bunsen in 1860. 
ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE PHARMACIE DE 
PARIS. 
At the inaugural meeting of this institution for tie 
session commencing the 15th of November last, unebr 
the presidency of M. Bussy, the following eloge of tie 
late Professor Guibourt was delivered by M. Buigiet, 
Professor of Physics and General Secretary to the Bris 
Society of Pharmacy:— 
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste-Gaston Guibourt. 
Among the men who have contributed to the prgress 
of pharmaceutical science, there has not been o-e who 
laboured with more ardour, or who has left beh>d him 
more lively regrets, than the eminent man whos history 
it is now proposed to trace. At various times,pharma- 
cien, professor at the Ecole Superieure de Phtoiacie at 
