PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
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CHEMISTRY AND PHARMACY. 
Professor Redwood then presented his report. He said that after perform¬ 
ing a similar duty for twenty years it was difficult to find anything fresh to 
say. He must report the same good conduct and diligence on the part of 
the pupils, and with regard to their progress, he must remark that the standard 
at these examinations had greatly advanced. Much more was expected of the 
pupils now than used to be expected ; the questions given out were more diffi¬ 
cult, and the answers generally were better than they were twenty years ago. 
It was well to take a retrospective view occasionally of the results of their 
labours in the cause of pharmaceutical education. In doing so he saw no ground 
for discouragement, but much to induce them to persist in the course they had 
hitherto adopted. In accounting for diminished attendance in the school, it 
should be remembered that the Society had now for many years sent out large 
numbers of qualified instructors, and that candidates came from them ready 
prepared to pass the examinations of the Society. On the whole, the retrospect 
afforded him great satisfaction. 
The questions and awards were as follows :— 
1. What are the respective weights of a pint of each of the following liquids :—Recti¬ 
fied Spirit, Proof Spirit, Chloroform? 
2. What is the meaning of the term Specific heat; how is the specific heat of bodies 
determined; and what is the specific heat of Olive Oil as compared with Water ? 
3. What is meant by the term Dialysis ? Describe the method of conducting the pro¬ 
cess to which this name is applied, and mention some of the results which have 
been obtained by it. 
4. Describe the preparation and properties of Phosphorus and Phosphoric Acid. 
o. State the sources from w r hich Bromine is obtained, and describe the method of iso¬ 
lating it, and also its properties and atomic weight. 
G. Name the body represented by the formula CoNH, and describe its properties and 
tests. 
7. Give the atomic formula for Urea ; describe the method of producing it artificially, 
and the nature of the change effected by the application of heat to it. 
8. Describe the processes of the British Pharmacopoeia for the preparation of emetic 
tartar and hydrochlorate of morphia. 
Medal .John Watts. 
Certificate of Honour ...John Bingley. 
„ ...Fredk. R. Pasmore. 
Certificate of Merit .Edward B. Goulden. 
„ John M. 0. Eminson. 
BOTANY AND MATERIA MEDICA. 
Professor Bentley said that he had on the present, as on all previous occa¬ 
sions when he had to make his annual report on the class of Materia Medica and 
Botany, to speak in the highest terms of the general conduct, diligence, and 
progress of the students both at the Society and at the Royal Botanic Gardens ; 
in fact, such a statement, if stereotyped, would be always found applicable to 
pharmaceutical students. Professor Bentley stated that he spoke from an ex¬ 
perience founded on sixteen years’ active labour as a professor of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, and hence it could not but prove most gratifying to those 
gentlemen who had for so many years sacrificed a great part of their time, 
money, and energies to the promotion of pharmaceutical education ; the seed which 
they had sown had kindly germinated and grown, and was now putting forth its 
branches and ripening its fruit in all directions. Professor Bentley then an¬ 
nounced the result of the Terminal Prize Examination. The competition was 
a severe one and the result most creditable to all concerned, for those who had 
gained honours might well be proud of their distinctions, for they eminently 
