Am o?tur^7h7arm  1     British  Pharmaceutical  Conference.  521 
Prof.  Markoe  exhibited  and  explained  Zentmayer's  new  students'  or  histological 
microscope  5  also  a  standard  meter,  liter  and  other  appliances  made  by  the  Ameri- 
can Metric  Bureau  to  illustrate  the  decimal  measures. 
The  report  on  the  exhibition  was  read,  and  referred  for  publication.  A  resolu- 
tion, offered  by  Mr.  Wellcome,  hereafter  to  discontinue  the  exhibitions,  was  referred 
to  the  Executive  Committee  for  consideration  and  report  at  the  next  annual  meeting. 
An  invitation  from  the  Toronto  Mechanics'"  Institute,  placing  the  facilities  of 
their  reading  room  at  the  disposal  of  the  members,  was  accepted  with  thanks. 
The  following  pharmacists  were  elected  honorary  members  :  Prof.  H.  A.  L. 
Wiggers,  of  Goettingen,  Germany;  Prof.  G.  Planchon,  of  Paris,  France;  Prof. 
Ed.  Schaer,  of  Zurich,  Switzerland,  and  Prof.  X.  Landerer,  of  Athens,  Greece. 
After  the  election  of  several  new  members,  the  proposition  was  made  and  laid 
over  until  next  year,  to  amend  Art.  I  of  the  Constitution  by  striking  out  the  words, 
"  the  United  States,"  and  inserting  in  place  thereof,  "America.'" 
Mr.  A.  J.  Rankin,  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  was  elected  Local  Secretary  for  the  ensuing 
year. 
Resolutious  of  thanks  were  passed  to  the  Department  of  Education  for  the 
Province  of  Ontario;  to  the  officers  and  members  of  the  Ontario  College  of  Phar- 
macy and  their  ladies;  to  the  city  government  of  Toronto  ;  to  the  Local  Secretary, 
Mr.  H.J.  Rose;  to  the  reporters  and  the  press,  and  to  the  citizens  of  Toronto.  A 
number  of  speeches  were  made  and  toasts  proposed,  after  which  the  Association 
adjourned  to  meet  again  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  September,  1878. 
BRITISH  PHARMACEUTICAL  CONFERENCE  OF  1877. 
On  Sunday,  August  12th,  a  hundred  men  in  perhaps  a  hundred  places,  were 
preparing  for  their  visit  to  Plymouth,  and  during  the  whole  of  Monday  the  trains 
which  arrived  at  that  town  brought  thither  numbers  of  visitors,  some  for  the  Confer- 
ence, some  for  the  British  Association,  and  others  for  both.  If  anything  were 
wanted  to  prove  the  general  interest  taken  in  pharmacy,  both  by  pharmacists  and 
some  scientific  chemists,  it  might  perhaps  have  been  found  in  the  abandonment  of 
pleasure  by  many  who  formed  part  of  Tuesday  and  Wednesday  meetings.  There 
were  present  gentlemen  from  the  far  North,  East,  West  and  South,  and  even  those 
who  had  been  rambling  during  their  annual  holiday  amid  the  wilds  of  Dartmoor 
and  roving  along  the  yet  wilder  and  craggy  coasts  of  Cornwall  forsook  those  charm- 
ing resorts  for  the  sake  of  science. 
By  midnight  on  Monday  small  gatherings  of  visitors  had  assembled  at  all  the 
chief  hotels,  and  were  to  be  seen  seriously  discussing  the  virtues  of  their  tobacco 
and  their  glasses.  And  punctually  at  ten  the  next  morning  did  the  Conference 
summon  its  members  to  consider  the  report  of  the  executive,  and  listen  to  the  inter- 
esting address  of  the  President,  Professor  Redwood. 
This  address  consisted  of  a  timely  resume  of  the  history  of  the  steps  by  which 
"the  druggist  of  to-day  has  been  transformed  into  the  apothecary  of  the  seven- 
teenth century."  Recognizing  the  existence  of  circumstances  liable  to  induce  fears 
that  in  the  attempt  to  raise  the  status  of  the  practice  of  pharmacy  substantial  advan- 
tages may  be  lost,  and  only  barren  honor  gained,  the  President  sought  in  the  history 
