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LEEDS chemists’ ASSOCIATIC^’. 
Mr. H. S. Evans brought forward the subject of the Beuevolent Fund of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society, stating in the course of his remarks the object of the originators of the 
Fund, and the benefit arising from it. He strongly urged that the Liverpool section of 
the trade should contribute to the Fund, and thus increase the means of the Committee 
for extending the charity to a wider circle. 
Mr. Evans then drew attention to the use of methylated spirit for the preparation of 
medicinal tinctures, etc,, and that its use was prohibited for the manufacture of nitrie 
ether, etc. In consequence of this prohibition, tinctures and nitric ether were found in 
the market of very low strength. Mr. Evans put the question whether the introduction 
of weak medicines of this kind was justifiable. The feeling of the meeting was strongly 
against the use of ether and tinctures of a lower standard than that indicated in the 
British Pharmacopoeia. . 
Mr. Chas. Stmes moved and Mr. John Shaw seconded the following resolution on 
this subject:— 
“ That this Association deprecates the sale of tinctures or spirits weaker than specified 
in the Pharmacopoeia, seeing that it would lead to want of uniformity, would be likely 
to produce dangerous results in the case of laudanum, and would be the source of low 
competition, to the injury of those who wished to conduct a respectable and conscientious 
business.” Carried unanimously. 
Mr. Evans referred to the progress that had been made by the Pharmaceutical Society 
in regulating the basis of determinate legislative measures respecting the qualifications 
of chemists and druggists. 
The President offered a few remarks on the subject, and the meeting closed. 
Sixth General Meeting, held January 17th, 1867; the President in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and passed. 
The President stated, in impressing the value of the Benevolent Fund of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, that a late member of the Association had been relieved by it. 
The following donations were acknowleeged :—‘ The Proceedings of the Liverpool 
Architectural Society,’ ‘ The Proceedings of the Liverpool Polytechnic Society.’ 
The President then called upon Mr. E. Davies, F.C.S., to read the paper for the 
evening—Chemical and Pharmaceutical Gleanings from 1866. 
The lecturer, after alluding to the fact that no very remarkable discoveries had been 
made during the past year, divided the various subjects to be described under the heads 
of pharmacy, analysis, manufacturing, and scientific chemistry. 
The pharmaceutical discoveries described were—gelatine capsules, new methods of 
preparing iodide of potassium and citrate of magnesia, investigations on senna leaves 
and Ehus toxicodendron. In analysis a new test was given for grape sugar, the use of 
magnesium in toxicology was explained, and a density test for ung. hyd. described. 
In manufacturing chemistry, the novelties alluded to were a process for making soda 
ash by means of carbonate of magnesia, a method of covering iron with copper, a process 
for making sulphide of ammonium, etc. 
In scientific research, among other subjects, Dr. Bence Jones’s discovery of a substance 
similar to quinine in the animal kingdom, Fleetmann’s method of making oxygen, and 
Berthelot’s researches on acetylene were alluded to. The lecture was illustrated by 
specimens and experiments. In the discussion which followed, the President expressed 
a hope that the gelatine capsules would be found so successful as to supersede metallic 
capsules. 
A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Davies, and the meeting closed. 
LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The fifth meeting of the Session was held in the Library of the Philosophical Hall, 
on Wednesday, the 20th inst.; the President, Mr. E. Thompson, in the chair. Mr, May- 
field was admitted a member, and the President then proceeded to deliver the following 
address:— 
Gentlemen,—The two papers of Mr. Orridge, read at our last and previous meetings, 
in which he comments upon some parts of the Inaugural Address which I had the honour 
