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and thereby rendering them more healthy; the convenience of removing them 
without the necessity of putting the hands into the water; its adaptation as an 
attractive appendage to the counter, and its portability. The instrument consists 
of a glass jar with perforated zinc cover, having perforated zinc diaphragms fixed on 
a porcelain tube at unequal distances. 
Short, J. 
Soda-water taps. 
Smeeton, W., Leeds. 
Case of extractum carnis prepared from English beef. 
Thonger, Mr. G., Birmingham. 
Poison labels. 
Tomlinson, M., Kulme, Manchester. 
Dispensing counter fitted with the improved expedio label rack. 
The chief novelty in connection with the dispensing portion of this counter is the 
system adopted for storing labels. A frame constructed on the same principle as 
that commonly used in railway offices is adapted for holding a large series of labels, 
which are withdrawn through a slit in the front of each compartment. A specie 
jar intended for the chemist’s window is shown by the same maker, on his well- 
known patent principle. 
Yan Abbott, G., 5, Brinces Street, Cavendish Square, London. 
A large contribution of dietetic substances, among which may be noticed, 
gluten bread, farina, and chocolate. 
Malt flour, sugar of milk, extractum carnis, and a number of wines selected 
for the use of invalids. 
In an exhibition like the present, praise and blame must necessarily, to a 
large extent, be excluded. 
The committee do not constitute themselves censors of the work of their 
companions. Still, it would be unjust not to state in general terms how 
thoroughly certain branches of Materia Medica have been represented; nor 
would it be fair to pass unnoticed the extreme finish of a few surgical instru¬ 
ments. Practical chemists, whose names are household words, have proved 
fully equal to their reputation; whilst, owing to the unwearied services of 
Messrs. Atherton, Fitzhugh, and others, the objects so liberally contributed 
have been returned safe and sound to their respective exhibitors. 
The exhibition proves one thing more, that there is a fashion in pharmacy 
as there is in dress. The present mode is undeniably Extractum Carnis; whilst 
that ingenious instrument called the odorator, apjiears almost Protean in its 
applications. It was first a lecture demonstration in the hands of Faraday, 
then a Paris toy, and of late an English druggist’s sundry. Little did those 
two simple tubes imagine, when they arranged their separate points, and put 
this and that together, that they would appear in all the glory of scientific 
apparatus at the British Pharmaceutical Conference. 
Thanks are due, and thanks are most willingly paid to our Yice-President, 
Mr. Hills, for his thoughtful contribution. Some at Nottingham probably 
saw, for the flrst time, the features of one to whom pharmacy is so much in¬ 
debted. There were many present, more fortunate in their private friend¬ 
ships, who could point out to others how well the sculptor had caught and 
rendered the living expression of the man; both will allow that this report 
could not more fitly close tlian witli a tribute of unfeigned respect to 'the 
memory of Jacob Bell. 
