-April G, 1872.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
SOD 
Nominations for Council. 
The Secretary reported that he had received forty- 
fve nominations for the ensuing election of Council, 
•and that the following twenty-three, of whom ten are 
Members of the present Council, had signified their will¬ 
ingness to accept office if elected:— 
Batnes, James, 24, Waterworks Street, Hull. 
Betty, Samuel Chapman 6, Far7c Street , Camden Town, 
N.W. 
Bottle, Alexander, 37, Townwall Street, Dover. 
Burten, Edward, 38, TDulce Street , Grosvenor Square, W. 
’Carr John, 171, High Ilolborn, W.C. 
Churchill, John, 46, New Street, Birmingham. 
Frazer, Daniel, 113, Buchanan Street, Glasgow. 
Hampson, Robert, 205, St. JoJui Street Road , E.C. 
.Hills, Thomas Hyde, 338, Oxford Street, IF. 
Malden, William Walter, 195, Brompton Road, S.JF. 
Owen, John, 234, Upper Street, Islington, N. 
Radley, William Valentine, 74, Market Place, Shef¬ 
field. 
Savage, William Dawson, 30, Upper Bedford Street, 
Brighton. 
Savory, Charles Harley, 143, Neiv Bond Street, JF. 
Schacht, George Frederick, 7, Regent’s Place, Clif¬ 
ton. 
Shaw, John, 24, Great George Place, Liverpool. 
Smith, Edward, 8, The Strand, Torquay. 
•Stacey, Samuel Lloyd, 300, High Ilolborn, W.C. 
Starkie, Richard Stringer 4, Strand, W.C. 
•Stoddart, William Walter, 9, North Street, Bristol. 
•Sutton, Francis, Bank Plain, Norwich. 
Urwick, William Walker, 60, St. George's Road, Pim¬ 
lico, S. IF. 
Wade, John, 174, Warwick Street, Pimlico , S.W. 
Nominations for Auditors. 
The Secretary also reported that Mr. Frederick 
Andrews, of 23, Leinster Terrace, Hyde Park, had been 
nominated for election as an Auditor. 
The Council thereupon nominated the following, in 
•order to complete the list of five auditors:— 
Barron, Frederick, 2 , Bush Lane, E.C. 
Hodgkinson, William, 127, Aldersgate Street, E.C. 
Horner, Edward, 20 , Bucklershury, E.C. 
•Squire, William, 5, Coleman Street, E.C. 
Conversazione. 
A letter was read from the authorities of South Ken¬ 
sington Museum granting the use of the Museum for the 
•Conversazione on May 15th; and the President, Mr. Hills, 
Mr. Sandford, and Mr. Williams were appointed a com¬ 
mittee to make and carry out the necessary arrangements. 
The Report of the Finance Committee was received 
and adopted and sundry payments ordered. 
The Report of the Benevolent Committee was received 
and adopted and a grant of £10 made to the orphan of a 
late member of the Society. 
The Report of the Library, Museum and Laboratory 
Committee was received and adopted, and the following 
hooks recommended for the Library were ordered to he 
purchased:— 
Dcschanel’s Natural Philosophy, by Professor Everett. 
Orme’s Introduction to the Science of Heat. 
Johnston’s Agricultural Chemistry and Geology, by 
G. T. Atkinson, B.A. 
Harcourt and Madan’s Exercises in Practical Chemistry. 
Scoreshy-Jackson’s Materia Medica. 
Brande and Cox’s Dictionary of Science, Literature and 
Art. 
Sundry numbers and volumes of Annales de Chimie and 
Journal de Pharmacie, to complete sets. 
The Report and recommendations of the Parliamentary 
Committee were received and adopted. 
Resolved—That the Registrar he instructed and is 
hereby authorized to erase from the Register the name 
of John Hall, of Liverpool. 
It was brought to the notice of the Council that mis¬ 
interpretations of the Pharmacy Act by coroners had 
seriously affected the reputation of Chemists and Drug¬ 
gists. A discussion ensued in which the President, 
Messrs. Atherton, Groves, Savage, Shaw, Sutton, Sand- 
ford. and Smith took part, and eventually it was resolved, 
on the motion of Mr. Sutton, seconded by Mr. Williams, 
that a circular should ho sent to the Coroners throughout 
the kingdom, giving them an outline of the Act for their 
guidance. 
The Report of the Provincial Education Committee 
was received. It contained an application from the 
Northampton Chemists’ Assistants and Apprentices’ 
Association, asking for a grant of £10 for hooks, appa¬ 
ratus, and chemicals, which the Committee recommended 
should be complied with. 
It was thereupon 
Resolved—That a grant of Ten Pounds he made to 
the Northampton Chemists’ Assistants and Apprentices’ 
Association, and paid to the guarantors. 
As applications from other places had, on previous 
occasions, been made, in so informal and incomplete a 
manner that the Council had difficulty in dealing with 
them, and as in this from Northampton the purposes for 
which aid was required were so fully set forth, and gave 
such evidence of local efforts being made to advance 
education, the Council desired that it should he published 
in extenso for the guidance of others. 
Note. —In the following form of application all the 
replies of the Association are in Italics. 
To the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society 
of Great Britain. 
Form of application for Grants in aid of Provincial 
Schools of Pharmacy. 
The Secretary reported the death of Mr. Charles 
Thomas Anderson, of Jersey, one of the annuitants on 
the Benevolent Fund, who died on the first day of the 
quarter ; and the Council ordered that the sum of £7.10s. 
.should be paid to his widow. 
The Report of the House Committee was received and 
^adopted. 
Name of Associa¬ 
tion applying for 
Grant. 
The Northampton Chemists' Assis¬ 
tants and Apprentices' Association. 
(In the following divisions state the object or objects 
for which the grant is required, and the amount it is 
desired to appropriate to any or each of the following 
purposes: — 
The Committee having reported that several coats 
had been lost from the hall, the Council requested the 
President, Mr. Williams, and the Secretary to carry out 
the necessary arrangements for preventing the re¬ 
currence of such losses. 
A For providing apparatus, Four sets of apparatus as 
specimens, diagrams, etc. per list. J alue of the four 
Specify the articles re- sets packed complete in four 
quired, and the amount boxes, £5. 
of grant requested. 
