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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[May 4, 1372. 
Sloman, Richard .Torquay. 
Smith, Percy John .. Balham. 
Spratt, George Uriah.Nottingham. 
Woodcock, Arthur .Norwich. 
Wynne, Edward Price.Aberystwith. 
Resolved—That the following, having passed their 
respective Examinations, be elected Associates of 
the Society:— 
Major. 
Brough, Henry James.Windsor. 
Minor. 
Appleby, Edward Joseph .... Brighton. 
Bates, William.Stevenage. 
Blackwell, Frederick William Birmingham. 
Constance, Herbert Edward . .London. 
Cortis, Arthur Brownhill ... .Worthing. 
Dear, James Edward .St. John’s Wood. 
Edwards, Thomas.Newport, Monm. 
Evison, William .Louth. 
Green, Yittery.London. 
Greenish, Thomas Edward ... .London. 
Haworth, Benjamin Henry... .Manchester. 
Houghton, Robert William .. Bermuda. 
John, Jabez Arundel .Tenby. 
Jones, Matthew Henry .London. 
Langham, Henry John .Diss. 
Latham, Robert John .Worksop. 
Maitland, Alick.London. 
Williams, William Griffith.,. .Abergele. 
Modified. 
Cox, John James Wilson .... Brighton. 
Griffits, John Alonza .Wantage. 
Johnson, Robert Armstrong . .Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Probyn, Clifford ..Kennington. 
Shemmonds, John .Coventry. 
Watson, Charles .London. 
It was resolved—That the Report and recommendations 
of the Library, Museum and Laboratory Committee 
be received; and the following books recommended 
for the Library were ordered to be purchased:— 
Lyell’s Principles of Geology. 
Merrifield’s Technical Arithmetic and Mensura¬ 
tion. 
Wood’s Notes on Heat, etc. 
Darwin’s Origin of Species. 
Smith’s Pharmaceutical Guide. 
Frankland’s Lecture Notes—Organic Chemistry. 
Humboldt’s Cosmos. 
M‘Culloch’s Dictionary of Commerce and Com¬ 
mercial Navigation. 
Annuaire Pharmaceutique. 
The Committee presented the Annual Report of the 
Council, which, with alterations, was agreed to, and 
ordered to be issued with the Voting Papers for the elec¬ 
tion ensuing of Council and Auditors. 
Resolved—That the Report and recommendations of 
the House Commitee be received and adopted. 
The Report of the Finance Committee was received 
and adopted, and sundry payments ordered. 
Resolved—That the Report and recommendations of 
the Parliamentary Committee be received and 
adopted. 
The Report of the Provincial Educational Committee 
was read. It recommended the expenditure of more 
money on provincial education, and stated that in the 
opinion of the Committee, the applications for aid would 
have been more numerous had the conditions been less 
stringent and less fettered by details. It therefore re¬ 
commended certain amendments in the regulations. 
Mr. Williams suggested the question whether the 
proposed alterations would really widen the sphere of 
provincial pharmaceutical education. 
Mr. Atherton said they would no doubt do so to 
some extent, but in his opinion the whole matter would 
have to be gone into systematically and on a broader 
basis by the new Council. He therefore doubted the 
advisability of doing a thing partially which would 
have to be re-considered so soon. 
The President thought the new Council would be 
assisted in this matter by the recommendations of the 
Committee being adopted. 
Mr. Shaw thought it most important that something 
like the principle of “payment for results” should be 
inaugurated in connection with this matter. In the 
case of Liverpool there had not been such a demand for 
pharmaceutical education as might have been expected, 
and the facts showed the necessity of some regulations- 
which would ensure the funds of the Society being wisely 
expended. For the last twenty years every desirable 
means had been provided in Liverpool for giving a 
thorough systematic pharmaceutical education, lectures 
on Botany, Materia Medica, and Chemistry being- 
delivered, but although there must be from three to four- 
hundred apprentices and assistants in the town, these- 
lectures had not been attended by more than half a 
dozen, while the Materia Medica lectures were attended 
by two only. 
Mr. Hills asked if the masters had given their young- 
men the opportunity of attending. 
Mr. Shaw said he was simply speaking of the facts, 
not entering in any way into the cause or causes. He 
had heard that in other places masters had insisted on 
the time spent by their apprentices in attending lectures,, 
etc., being made up at the end of tho term. Indivi¬ 
dually he was prepared to vote for any amount being 
expended on the advancement of provincial education 
and was very much pleased with the action of the North¬ 
ampton Association as stated at the last meeting. Ho 
hoped that by degrees it would become generally known 
by parents and guardians, that under the regulations 
which required every chemist to pass his examination 
before entering into business, it would be essential that 
ten or twenty guineas should be expended on lectures,, 
etc., at the conclusion of a young man’s apprenticeship. 
He thought on the whole the matter had better be left 
to the incoming Council, and suggested that it would be 
well if the balance sheets of the various provincial Socie¬ 
ties were forwarded, so as to show that all was fair, and 
above board, and that it might be known who had done 
their duty and who had not. 
Mr. Stoddart said that his experience at Bristol was; 
quite at variance with that of Mr. Shaw at Liverpool. 
The Bristol Association had made no application for as¬ 
sistance, though he had been asked several times to do- 
so; but he had always said they had better do all they 
could for themselves first, and then if absolutely neces¬ 
sary they could ask for assistance, and he was sure the- 
Society would grant it. He believed every druggist in- 
Bristol had joined their Association, which had now been 
in operation for two seasons, and had been very prosper¬ 
ous indeed. Last year there were classes in Chemistry, 
Botany and Materia Medica, the number of students at 
the commencement being 18, and the same at the conclu¬ 
sion of the session. Ho found that two of the young; 
men had since passed their minor examination, although 
the last lecture was only given in February. This 
showed they ought to be rather circumspect in this 
matter, and see that people tried their best to help them¬ 
selves before asking assistance. 
Mr. Shaw said that Liverpool had not applied for 
assistance. He asked if Mr. Stoddart had not virtually 
applied the system of payment for results, by requiring 
a fee of os. only for the lectures (which he gave gratui¬ 
tously) if the students attended regularly, whilst 10 s.. 
was exacted if they did not. 
Mr. Stoddart said the fee was uniformly one guinea,, 
which was devoted to the formation of a museum of 
materia medica. The 5s. subscription to which Mr. 
Shaw had referred was requisite to constitute a young 
man a member of the association. 
