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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[April 6, 1873. 
List referred to above. 
A set of Evaporating 
Basins :—■ 
One 6^ inch. 
One 8ij- inch. One 4 -inch. 
One 7 j; inch. Two 3-inch. , 
One Retort Stand and three 
Rings. 
Two Test Glasses. 
One Half-pint Flash. 
One half - quire Filter 
Taper. 
Two Porcelain Crucibles. 
One Measure Glass, 5 oz. 
One pair 8 -inch Brass Cru¬ 
cible Tongs. 
Two Glass Funnels. 
One dozen Test Tubes ( Ger¬ 
man glass). 
(This Set, packed in a c 
chemical apparatus maker for 
One Black's Blowpipe. 
One Test-tube Brush. 
Two Soup Plates. 
One Plod Plate. 
Two Spatula Knives. 
One Pair of Scissors. 
One Round File. 
One Triangular File. 
One half-pound Glass Rod. 
One half-pound Glass 
Tubing. 
One foot Small India-rubber 
Tubing. 
Three dozen Corks of various 
sizes. 
Platinum Wire and Foil. 
Test Papers. 
A Nest of three Beakers. 
ise, can be obtained of any 
about 2 os.) 
B For providing books, etc. 
for library. State the 
particulars of the number 
of books already in the 
library of the Association, 
the titles and prices of the 
books it is now desired to 
purchase, and the amount 
of grant requested. 
C For any other object. State 
the purpose for which the 
grant is required, and the 
amount requested. 
As the relative claim of any 
town to receive aid from 
the Society must be indi¬ 
cated by the earnestness 
AND EFFICIENCY OF LOCAL 
effort state here any con¬ 
sideration which, in the 
opinion of the applicants, 
entitles them to a grant 
from the Society’s funds. 
We have 29 volumes of 
books in library, including 
Pharmacopoeia, Attfield's 
Chemistry\ Bentley's Bot¬ 
any, Christison on Poisons, 
etc. We wish to purchase 
Pereira's Materia Medica, 
25s. Fownes ’ Chemistry, 
14s., Bentham'sFlora, 10s. 6(7. 
Asa Gray's Botany, 4s. 6d., 
total, £2. 14s. 
Four dozen 5-oz. W. M. Ger¬ 
man glass stoppered bottles, 
for solid chemicals, used in 
qualitative analysis, £1 10s., 
Chemicals for ditto, 16s. 
TV e have our room fitted 
with shelves, on which are 
95 20 -oz. W. M. stopjpered 
bottles, 31 S-oz. ditto, 21 Q-oz. 
ditto, containing standard 
specimens of materia medica 
of B. P., 1867. Also tables, 
chairs, bench, etc., and a 
number of apparatus {includ¬ 
ing a microscope lent by one 
of the members). There are 
24 assistants and apprentices 
in the town, 22 have joined 
the Association. There are 
17 chemists and druggists in 
Northampton, and of these 16 
have given donations, and 
nine gifts of apparatus, or in 
other icays rendered substan¬ 
tial support. Each member 
pays 5s. per annum. The 
members conduct their own 
classes, advanced learners as¬ 
sisting beginners. Some 
Pharmaceutical Chemists also 
assist and advise if necessary. 
The classes instituted at 
•Three Resident 
members of the 
Pharmaceutical 
Society. 
James Barry, 
Northampton. 
Wm. Richard Clarke, 
Northampton. 
Edward Pullen, 
43, Gold St., Northampton. 
Dated —March 5th, 1872. 
The President then drew the attention of the Council 
to a paragraph which had appeared in the Chemist and 
Druggist, reflecting on the character of Mr. Carr as a 
member of the Council, and said he felt it his duty to 
move a resolution on the subject. 
It was moved by the President, seconded by tho 
Treasurer, and resolved:— 
That this Council have seen with regret a most unj ust 
attack on their colleague, Mr. John Can, in his 
capacity as Councillor, and desire to express their 
opinion that no member of the Council has been 
more faithful in his devotion to the interests of tho 
Society, or more constant in his attendance at tho 
various meetings during his tenure of office. 
Provincial Education. 
Mr. Frazer then brought forward the following mo- 
tion, of which he had given notice :— 
“With a view to making a more systematic as well as 
a more liberal use of the funds of the ■Society in 
aiding Pharmaceutical Education throughout tho 
country, I would propose that in future all applica¬ 
tions for money votes for this purpose for the year 
be lodged with the Secretary of the Society not later 
than the 1st August annually, and that the Council 
decide at its usual monthly meeting in October. In 
the interval between the date of application and 
that at which the Coimcil give their decision upon 
them, tho Local Secretaries shall examine into the- 
respective merits of each case, and report the same 
to the Council for its guidance in proportioning the 
sums to be voted to each applicant.” 
He commenced by stating that when he gave the notice,, 
he was not aware that the question was causing any 
feeling in the country, nor had he been spoken to by 
any one, but it had been present to his mind ever since- 
the meeting in July last, when he consulted Mr. Sand- 
ford about it. The balance-sheet for the last year showed 
that the money expended on provincial education was- 
£48, which seemed a ridiculously small sum, and he 
believed the reason was the want of a better system for 
dealing with the question. He did not wish at the pre¬ 
sent time to go into the question of how much or how 
little should be voted for provincial education, but rather 
to enforce the necessity of introducing some systematic 
plan by which the wants of the country should be met. 
He thought if, after the balance-sheet were presented, a 
certain sum were set aside, whatever it might be, fer 
provincial education, and then applications from various, 
associations were entertained, they -would be in a better 
position to deal fairly with all parties, and to accomplish 
the objects which the}’ - had in view. 
Mr. Smith said he was not quite sure whether or not 
there would be any advantage in combining Mr. Frazer’s 
motion with the one of which he had given notice, 
namely— 
present, are chemistry, botany, 
materia medica, and phar¬ 
macy, and we now desire, by 
the aid of the Parent Society, 
to add one on practical che¬ 
mistry. 
G. C. Druce, \ 
6 , Drapery, > Secretary of the above Association. 
Northampton. ) 
“ That the attention of the Provincial Education Com¬ 
mittee be drawm to the inadequacy of the assistance 
rendered by the present system of ‘ grants in aid of 
Provincial Schools of Pharmacythat the Com¬ 
mittee be requested to reconsider the matter, with a 
view to a more liberal and systematic application of 
the funds of the Society in aid of Provincial 
Education, and report thereon to a future meeting 
of Council.” 
