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to improve, strengthen, and consolidate the position of Pharmaceutists in Great Britain, 
and within two years of its formation a journal had been started, and a large number of 
their class had united in the movement. Ten years passed awty; and in 1852 the Act 
of Pharmacy was passed, under which they held in Scotland, for the first time, their 
examinations and their meetings. Though that Act was not all they deserved, he had 
every reason to believe that their position would be further improved by a second Act, 
which might be looked for early in the next Session. He was glad that, at the end of 
such a period of time, the Pharmaceutical Society should be found still standing to its 
original bases—struggling to place themselves on an equal footing in every respect 
with the high-school Pharmaceutists of the Continent. 
The toast was received with loud cheers, and given with all the honours. 
Croupier Ainslie then gave “The Koyal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons,” 
alluding to the harmony which existed between those bodies and themselves, to which 
Professor D. Maclagan replied. 
Mr. D. Kemp then proposed “The Memory of Jacob Bell,” the founder of the 
Society, which was drunk in solemn silence. 
Amongst the other toasts given during the evening were — “The President and 
Council in London,” “ The Honorary Members of the Society in Scotland,” “ The 
Museum of Science and Art in Scotland,” “The Eetiring President,” “Pharmaceutical 
Education,” “ The Council in Edinburgh,” “ Assistants and Apprentices,” etc. 
The toasts were agreeably interspersed with songs and recitations by several of those 
present. 
PROVINCIAL TRANSACTIONS. 
LIVEEPOOL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
Tenth General Meeting, held at the Eoyal Institution, on March 14th, 1867; the 
President, Mr. E. Sumner, in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and passed. 
Mr. B. Fergie was proposed by the Secretary, and seconded by Mr. Bedford, as a 
member of the Association, and duly elected. 
The following donations to the Library were announced:—The ‘ Pharmaceutical 
Journal’ for March, from the Society. The Proceedings of the Liverpool Polytechnic 
Society. The Proceedings of the Liverpool Architectural Society. 
The thanks of the meeting were passed to the donors. 
Mr. Sharp exhibited a blow-pipe lamp from Mr. Mottershead, of Manchester, and ex¬ 
plained its action. 
Mr. Abraham said that Mr. Mawson had asked him about a small stove for use in 
making pharmaceutical preparations, and said to be employed in the neighbourhood, 
called the magic stove. 
Mr. King alluded to some experiments which he had made in using petroleum spirit 
with a blast of air for heating purposes. 
The Secretary said that Mr. Griffin had invented a furnace on a similar principle. 
The President then called upon Mr. Charles Sharp, who first read a suggestive note 
“ On the Medicinal and Economic Uses of Insects.” 
Mr. Sharp then read a paper “ On Pharmaceutical Advertising,” in which he animad¬ 
verted on the practice of advertising certain proprietary articles in an objectionable 
manner, which is calculated to lower the dignity of pharmacy in the -estimation of a 
discerning public. 
Mr. Sharp admitted that it was difficult to draw the line between legitimate and ille¬ 
gitimate advertising, but thought there were cases too glaringly suggestive of quackery 
to be creditable to pharmacy. He thought that pharmaceutists should be determined to 
present a rigid face against the received notion that physic meant humbug, and 
that the great art of pharmaceutical chemistry consisted in pseudo-scientifically per¬ 
suading the public that its whiskers needed replenishing and its moustaches dyeing, and 
that the great happiness of mankind was dependent upon odorous Arabian balsams, 
chemical food, and 13^c?. boxes of Barnum’s pills. 
