PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING, EDINBURGH. 
646 
John Mackay in account with the Pharmaceutical Society, from \st January to 
31s< December, 1866. 
1866. £. 8. d. 
Various Books for Library . 6 11 6 
Postage Stamps . 1 14 7 
Attendance at Door of Meetings... 0 7 6 
Expenses of Annual Meeting . 7 3 10 
Rent of Rooms and Hall . 30 0 0 
Insurance on Museum . 0 6 0 
Painter .. 0 18 6 
Printing Bills, Labels, etc. 4 12 6 
Bottles for Museum . 0 10 
Curator (Mr. W. Hill) . 5 0 0 
Petty Expenditure . 110 
£57 16 4 
Balance due to Secretary. 7 6 4 
We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing accounts, with vouchers attached, 
find them correctly stated and entered, and the balance due to the Secretary as at 31st 
December, 1866, seven pounds six shillings and fourpence sterling. 
J. R. Young. 
Wm. Ainslie. 
David Remp. 
Edinburgh, 16fA April, 1867. 
The following office-bearers for 1867-8 were then proposed to the meeting, and car¬ 
ried unanimously:— 
President—Mr. J. E. Young, of Messrs. Macfarlan & Co. 
Vice-President—Mr. Ainslie, of Gardner & Ainslie. 
Council—President and Vice-President, Messrs. G. Blanchard, Flockhart, Aitken, 
Gardner, Noble, Eaimes, H. C. Baildon, Buchanan, Kemp (Portobello), D. R. Brown, 
G. Burrell (Montrose), Hodgeton (Brechin), and Mr. Kinninmont (of Glasgow). 
Examiners—President and Vice-President, Messrs. Kemp, Gardner, D. R. Brown (of 
Macfarlan & Co.), Aitken, Noble, Buchanan (of Duncan & Co.), President and Vice- 
President in London, and Secretary in Edinburgh, ex officiis. 
Curator of Museum and Library—Mr. W. Hill. 
Library and Museum Committee—President and Vice-President, Messrs. D. R. 
Brown, Noble, and Mackay. 
Secretary—Mr. John Mackay. 
THE ANNUAL SUPPER. 
The annual supper in connection with the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 
was held in the Cafe Royal, Register Street, Edinburgh. Mr. James R. Young presided, 
and the vice-chairs were occupied by Mr. Wm. Ainslie and Mr. George Blanchard, 
The company numbered about 130, and among those present were—Professor Maclagan, 
Mr. David Kemp, Portobello ; Dr. Argyle Robertson, Dr. Ritchie, Mr. H. B. Brady, 
Newcastle; Dr. Robertson, Mr. Kinnimont, Glasgow ; Mr. Wm. Aitken; Mr. Kerr and 
Mr. Hodge, Dundee; Mr. Bruce Allan, Mr. Thomas Finlayson, Mr. James Buchanan, 
Mr. James Gardiner, Mr. H. C. Baildon, Mr. T. M‘Culloch, Dr. Carter Moffatt, etc. 
After supper, the Secretary intimafed that letters of apology had been received from 
Dr. Stevenson Macdam, Dr. W. D. Adams, Mr. John Black, Mr. Moffatt, Mr. Edward 
C. C. Stanford, Glasgow; Dr. J. Smith, etc. 
The Chairman, having given the usual loyal and patriotic toasts, which were all 
heartily responded to, proposed “ The Pharmaceutical Society.” He said twenty-six 
years had come and gone since the Society had sprung into existence. Before those 
days there were chemists and druggists, and good ones, too; but they stood isolated and 
disunited, jealous of each other, without any bond of union, without any required 
standard of education, without any system for united action, and even without any 
definite position in general society. Such was the state of things when the Society 
commenced its operations under the guiding hands of Jacob Bell and William Allen. 
The manifesto issued by those venerable men stated that the object of the Society was 
1866. £. s. d. 
May 23. Cash from Loudon . 50 0 0 
,, Ditto ditto . 0 10 0 
Dec’. 30. Balance due to Secretary ... 7 6 4 
£57 16 4 
