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EXHIBITION OF OBJECTS BELATING TO PHAEMACY, HELD 
AT NOTTINGPIAM, AUGUST, 1866 , 
DUEING THE MEETING OF THE BEITISH PHAEMACEUTICAL CONFEEENCE. 
(^cncorbta foU il}v ^icintc fe\)n.— Schiller. 
The proposal for this Exhibition originated with Mr. J. H. Atherton, 
who was ably seconded by the Nottingham Local Committee. Its success 
has been beyond dispute, and all who were connected with its executive 
details may be most warmly congratulated on the gratifying result achieved. 
It was felt that there should be some permanent record of an undertaking 
that must have proved such a just source of satisfaction to its projectors, and 
of instruction to those who had the opportunity of inspecting the varied col¬ 
lection brought together. At the meeting on Wednesday, the following 
members were appointed as a committee to draw up a detailed report for 
insertion in the Transactions, viz.:— 
Me. Deane, President, 
Messrs. Brady, Brough, Carteighe, Commans, Eitzhugh, Ince, Stoddart, 
and Sutton. 
The Committee beg, now that their task is ended, most urgently to offer 
one suggestion, viz., that, on any future occasion, no exhibitor should forward 
articles for exhibition without either an accompanying description, or a few 
selected notes. By the adoption of this simple plan, an appreciable amount 
of unnecessary labour would be spared, and the individual interests of the 
exhibitor would be best consulted.^' 
The greatest possible care has been taken to include the names of every 
exhibitor; should any omission have occurred, it is an entirely accidental cir¬ 
cumstance. 
Whether it would be wisdom to venture on an annual collection, such as 
the one now under investigation, is open to a doubt, nor should the attempt 
be made without due deliberation. Manifold advantages have however 
accrued from this pioneer endeavour: not only has it given a stimulus to 
manufacturing industry, and to many branches of pharmaceutical research, 
but it has supplied a personal element of interest to the transactions of the 
Conference, the value of which cannot be over-estimated. Nor must it ever 
be forgotten, that if we desire that pharmacy should be recognized by the 
State, we must show to the world outside that we are in some measure 
worthy of the honour; and when it is found that w'e can leave behind us our 
miserable trade differences, and small grooves of thought, and can meet in 
friendly union on the higher basis of pure pharmacy, we shall then be in a 
* The Committee would advise these few regulations :— 
1. That no Exhibitor shall forward articles without list and descriptive notes. 
2. That the manuscript shall he written on one side of paper only. 
3. That the Secretary of the Exhibition keep an entry-book ruled as follows:—■ 
Name. 
Adebess. 
Nature of object. 
Number of parcels. 
Each consignment, on arriving, to be carefully entered, and in such a manner as to require 
no subsequent revision. 
