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PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
REGISTERED APPRENTICES AND STUDENTS. 
Name. 
Bell, Charles Christopher. 
Collishaw, John. . 
Goldsworthy, William Leggs 
Jaques, William. 
Johnson, Fletcher. 
Moses, William Eussell. 
Eoberts, Harvey. 
Eogers, Jerome George. 
Saook, John . 
Squire, Alfred Herbert. 
Watson, Eobert. 
Eesiding wixn Address. 
Mr. Harrison.Nottingham. 
Mr, Smith.Nottingham. 
Mr. Dunn .St. Austell 
Mr. Procter .Beverley. 
Mr. Bordass .Driffield. 
Mr, Eoberts .Liverpool. 
Mr. Granger.Clapton. 
Mr. Turner .Holloway. 
.Messrs. Jameson and Barnett ...Bath. 
.Mr. Squire.London. 
.Messrs. Pattinsons and Boyd ...Carlisle. 
PHAEMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
Wednesday^ Novernber Ith^ 1866. 
MR. SANDFORD, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 
were announced as follows, and the thanks of the Meeting given to th'e respec¬ 
tive donors:— 
Chemical News,—Chemist and Druggist,—Educational Times,—Photographic Journal, 
• —L’Union Pharmaceutique : from the respective Editors. Journal of the Linnean 
Society,—Journal of the Chemical Society,—Journal of the Society of Arts : from the 
Societies, Proceedings of the Eoyal Institution: from the Institution. Calendar of 
the Royal College of Surgeons : from the College. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries: 
from the Institute. Camille Montague, Botaniste; par M. P. A. Cap,—Elogio Histo- 
rico e Noticia Completa de Thome Pires, Pharmaceutico; por Pedro Jose Da Silva, 
^—The New and Old Notation of Chemistry in a Complete Set of Tables; by Sidney W. 
Rich,—Creosote and Acetic Acid with other Substances produced by the Destructive 
Distillation of Wood; by M. A. Payne: from the respective Authors. Traite Complet ' 
de la Culture de I’Opium Indigene; par Alphonse Odeph. Plantes Medicinales de 
Maurice, 2me Edition ; par Louis Bouton : from Mr. P. L. Simmonds. Specimens of the 
root, fruit, and leaf of the Eland’s bean: from David Bain, Esq. Drawing of the 
Eland’s Bean-plant: from Thomas Baines, Esq. Fruit of the Cycas revoluta, grown at 
Highgate by James Yates, Esq., F.E.S, Specimen of Boghead coal bearing the im¬ 
pression of a Sigillaria : from Eobert Warington, Esq., F.R.S. 
The following paper was then read ;— 
ANALYSIS OE ELAND’S BOONTJES; A SPECIES OE ACACIA 
YIELDING FOOD, MEDICINE, AND TAN TO THE NATIVES 
OE SOUTH AFRICA. 
BA" JOHN ATTFIELD, PII.D., F.C.S., 
DIRECTOR OF THE LABORATORY OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
Boontjes is a Dutch word, signifying little beans, and “Eland’s boontjes” are 
simply “ Eland’s beans,” that is, the little beans that Elands eat. Eland zyn 
Boontjie, the Eland his little bean. It is the local name of a plant in the 
Orange Free State, South Africa.^' 
* This Eland, or Cape Elk, must not he confounded with the elk or eland of the northern 
parts of Europe and America; the latter is the Aloes Malchis, distinctively known as the 
nioose-deer, the former the Oreas Canna, one of the antelope tribe. The term Eland is 
