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allusion to the very deep regret, which, not only those connected with this Society, but 
also a large portion of the general public, felt at the death of Dr. Scoresby-Jackson, 
Lecturer on Materia Medica, whose useful and promising career was so suddenly closed 
by his early and unexpected death. Possessed of talents of a very high character, and 
of a disposition so amiable and attractive as to make him the friend of many and the 
enemy of none, with strong sympathies and eager desires for the promotion of pharma¬ 
ceutical science, his loss is not only much to be regretted, but by every member of this 
Society to be deeply deplored. As a somewhat new feature in the proceedings of the 
Session, the Council feel much pleased in being able to notice the great success which 
attended the conversazione, lately held in the extensive galleries of the Museum of 
Science and Art, and which, through the kind attention of Professor Archer, was placed 
at the disposal of the Society for the purpose of holding the meeting. 
The Council have again to complain that no essays were lodged in competition for 
the President’s or Register Fund Prize. Associates and apprentices are urged to write 
papers on any pharmaceutical or chemical subject; and to lodge them for competition 
with the Secretary, on or before 1st November of the present year. 
The new edition of the Pharmacopoeia being now completed, and the work itself at 
the present time passing through the press, and likely to be in the hands of those 
interested in the course of a few days, is, the Council thinks, matter for congra¬ 
tulation. They believe some additions, alterations, and modifications of certain for- 
mula3 have been made, which doubtless pharmaceutists generally will hail with much 
satisfaction. 
During the past year the Library of the Society has been rather more frequently ap¬ 
plied to than usual, and the Council feel gratified to know this; and have much 
pleasure in intimating, that it is their intention to make considerable additions in this 
department during the approaching summer. 
The Council are very much pleased to be able to congratulate the Society upon the 
rapid advance, which, during the last few weeks, has made towards a reconciliation of 
the conflicting differences which have for so long divided Pharmaceutists from their 
brethren and neighbours. Chemists and Druggists. While the whole drug trade, and 
indeed the community at large, feel that some protection by legislative enactment was 
required alike for the education and regulation of the former, and safety and protection 
to the latter, yet there did exist a certain amount of jealous feeling towards our 
own body, a manifestation of which produced a hesitancy and unwillingness on the 
part of Government to grant, what we have so long desired and fought for—namely, 
a satisfactory extension of the Pharmacy Act of 1852. Those difficulties, however, 
the Council are glad to know are at an end, and they much rejoice in the result of 
the meetings recently held in Bloomsbury Square, by which much of a strong oppo¬ 
sition has been withdrawn, and the assistance of those most interested obtained, in 
order that the views long since enunciated by our ever to be respected founder, 
Jacob Bell, may be more completely carried out under the sanction of a new Act of 
Parliament. 
The Council cannot but rejoice in the extraordinary position in which the Benevolent 
Fund at present stands ; the successful efforts in connection with this scheme must have 
afforded the London Council very great satisfaction. It has often been said that it 
is more blessed to give than to receive, and it is to be hoped, that not only does this 
feeling find an echo in the hearts of all who have contributed to this noble object, but 
that the feeling may continue to extend itself, until the remaining sum of about £2000 
be realized, thus raising the capital stock of the Benevolent Fund to the amount con¬ 
templated from the first, viz. £10,000. The annual interest from such a sum, com¬ 
bined with yearly contributions, will then enable the Council to meet the increasing 
demands which must of necessity be made upon them, and thus relieve the wants, 
and add to the comfort, of many of our members, who, from misfortune and ad¬ 
versity, the dispensation of Providence, or other causes, stand so much in need of 
liberal, kind, and steady support. It is even consoling to know, that by the distribu¬ 
tion of this fund the widow and fatherless will not be forgotten, and that, therefore, no 
one need hesitate to give their mite, and thus contribute to increase the source from 
which such a stream of kindness, benevolence, and sympathy, will continue unceasingly 
to flow. 
The following is an abstract of the intromissions of the Secretary for the year 186G :— 
