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PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Annual Meeting was held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, on Thursday 
evening, September 29th, 1864 ; the President, John Shaw, Esq., in the Chair. 
The President, having explained the business before the meeting, called upon the 
Hon. Secretary, H. Sugden Evans, Esq., F.C.S., etc., to read the following Annual 
Report of the Council: — 
Annual Report:—In bringing to a close the fifteenth session, your Council present, 
with much pleasure, their Annual Report of the continued prosperity of the Chemists’ 
Association. 
During the session the addition of thirty names has been made to the roll of mem¬ 
bers ; but from death, removal to other places, and other causes, some names have been 
removed, leaving an increase of twenty-two. 
The continued interest in the subjects discussed at the ordinary fortnightly meetings 
has been manifested by the excellent attendance of members, which has been above the 
average throughout the session. The papers read and lectures delivered have, in com¬ 
parison to former proceedings, maintained their high character ; and the publication of 
the long looked-for British Pharmacopoeia, during the session, gave a new interest to 
the meetings. One extraordinary and two ordinary meetings, to which the members 
of the medical profession were invited, w r ere devoted to the discussion and critical ex¬ 
amination of the additional new, and altered old, formula;, resulting in the conclusion 
that many valuable improvements have been introduced, at the same time that many 
emendations were requisite to the perfection of any future edition. Three ordinary 
meetings were also devoted to the more careful discussion in detail of special subjects 
involved in the British Pharmacopoeia. 
In view of a probable new edition being shortly called for, your Council would urge 
upon members the desirability of carefully noting, in the practice of their manipulations, 
the character and results of the preparation which may come under their observation, so 
as to enable them to suggest improvements, the discussions of which, at our ordinary 
meetings, would afford much interest and practical information. 
In compliance with the very generally expressed wish, your Council held, during the 
session, a conversazione, which was well attended; and they have pleasure in referring 
to this addition to the many delightful meetings of a similar character which have from 
time to time taken place. 
Encouraged by the success of the excursion to Runcorn Gap, held last year, your 
Council were induced to make arrangements for a similar excursion this summer to 
St. Helen’s, which took place on the 18th of August, when a large number of members 
and their friends visited the chemical works of A. G. Kurtz, Esq., the iron foundry of 
Robert Daglish, jun., Esq., and the glass works of Messrs. W. andR. Pilkington ; there¬ 
after dining together at Thatto Heath. Your Council desire here to record their 
acknowledgment of the kind and courteous attention the members received on the oc¬ 
casion from the above proprietors. 
In response to an invitation from the Executive of the British Pharmaceutical Confer¬ 
ence, your Council were glad to avail themselves of the opportunity to depute Messrs. 
J. Abraham, J. B. Edwards, Ph.D., and N. Mercer, to attend the meeting at Bath, and 
present the following resolution :—“ That the Delegates be requested to convey to the 
Conference the hearty approval of the Council of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association of 
the important objects contemplated by the Conference, as set forth in the constitution 
and rules, feeling assured that the labours of its members will be productive of large 
and valuable results to Chemical and Pharmaceutical science; also that when a favour¬ 
able opportunity occurs, the Liverpool Chemists’ Association will be glad to welcome 
the Conference to Liverpool.” 
The deputation reports that the meeting, which lasted four days, was of a highly 
satisfactory and encouraging character, the communications were of a practical and 
