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PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
The above are arranged alphabetically, and without any reference to actual 
merit exhibited at the examination. 
These orders will admit the above students to the gardens upon ordinary 
days in the months of March, April, and August, from nine a.m. till one p.m. ; 
and in May, June, and July, from seven a.m. till one p.m. Such orders, there¬ 
fore, give every facility to those who possess them of making themselves prac¬ 
tically acquainted with plants. 
PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING, 
Wednesday, March 8 th, 1805. 
MR. T. II. HILLS, VICE-PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, the following 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 
were announced, and the thanks of the meeting given to the respective donors 
thereof:— 
The Chemical News. 
The Chemist and Druggist. 
The Technologist. 
The Photographic Journal. 
The Medical Circular. 
The Dental lieoiew. 
The Pritish Journal of Dental Science. 
The Journal of the Chemical Society. 
The Proceedings of the Linnean Society. 
The Dducalional Times. 
The Veterinarian. 
Bulletin de la Societe Chimique de Paris. From the respective Editors. 
Proceedings of the British Pharmaceutical Conference. Bath Meeting, 1804. 
From the Conference. 
Des Quinquinas. Par Dr. Gr. Planchon. 
Be. Kermes du Chene. Par Dr. Gf. Planchon. 
Commentar zur Preussischen Pharmacopoeia. Yon Friedrich Mohr, Ph.D. From 
the respective Authors. 
Specimen of Cape Saffron. From Mr. David Bain. 
Specimen of Hashish Sweetmeat. From Mr. P. Squire. 
Mr. Shillcock, of Bromley, exhibited and explained to the meeting a Bottle 
with a Stopper-protector, which he had designed for the prevention of accidental 
poisoning. This led to a discussion, in which the Chairman and Messrs. Mackay 
and Morson took part. The general feeling of the meeting was, that although 
some protection was afforded by poison-bottles, and more especially by poison- 
cupboards, the great safeguard was in the intelligence and care exhibited by 
those to whom the handling of remedies was confided. 
The following papers were read:— 
ON THE “ PHOSPHATE OF AMMONIA ” OF THE BRITISH 
PIIARMACOPCEIA. 
BY MR. JOHN WATTS, SENIOR BELL SCHOLAR. 
It was not my intention, in the first instance, to have laid this paper before 
