620        Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  { *m-£^j"mt 
Secretary,-  M.  G.  Sirnan,  Treasurer,  and  M.  Helm,  Librarian.  The  articles  of  the 
Society  were  drawn  up  and  agreed  to.  The  annual  subscription  was  fixed  at  6  silver 
medjidies — about  an  English  guinea — with  an  extra  half-sovereign  to  pay  for  the 
diploma.  Besides,  every  member  is  required  to  contribute  a  work  of  pharmaceu- 
tical interest  to  the  library.  A  member  is  to  be  expelled  who,  after  two  public 
warnings  from  the  President,  after  committee  reports,  shall  continue  to  seek  to  sow 
discord  in  the  Society.  Every  candidate  for  membership  must  be  a  "  master  in 
•pharmacy"  of  some  recognized  faculty.  The  Society  is  to  exist  so  long  as  it  counts 
twelve  resident  members. 
On  July  7th  the  Society  met  in  the  regular  way  for  the  first  time.  A  summary  of 
its  proceedings  will  sufficiently  dispose  of  the  old-established  belief  that  the  Turk  is 
especially  remarkable  for  his  laziness.  The  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting  having 
been  read  and  confirmed,  the  Secretary  reported  the  correspondence  which  had  taken 
place  j  the  President  announced  that  140  members  had  joined  the  Society}  the 
Treasurer  submitted  his  report ;  the  parchment  for  the  diplomas  was  ordered  from 
Paris;  five  business  committees  were  appointed  and  six  other  committees  formed 
on  the  suggestion  of  the  President,  whose  duties  will  be  to  study  the  pharmaceuti- 
cal journals  and  memoirs,  both  home  and  foreign,  and  report  in  turn  to  the  Society 
the  results  of  their  reading.  There  are  appointed  for  this  work  committees  for 
French,  English,  Turkish,  German,  Italian  and  Greek  journals. 
M.  Matcovich  next  read  a  paper  advocating  the  limitation  of  pharmacies  in 
Turkey.  This  was  the  condition  in  the  Ottoman  Empire  formerly,  but  in  1861  the 
trade  was  made  open  to  anyone  on  the  recommendation  of  a  commission  composed 
entirely  of  French  educated  physicians.  All  that  is  now  necessary  is  that  the  pharma- 
cien  shall  be  diplomaed,  and  shall  keep  in  stock  medicines  according  to  an  official  list. 
The  result,  said  the  author,  has  been  that  out  of  212  pharmacies  in  the  capital  there 
are  170  whose  proprietors  have  only  a  capital  of  from  15/.  to  20/.,  or  just  enough  to 
buy  the  official  stock.  The  paper  showed  how  negligent  the  authorities  had  proved 
themselves  in  preventing  illegitimate  competition,  though  severe  in  their  inspection 
of  pharmacies,  and  in  the  enforcement  of  all  the  laws  against  pharmaciens.  Another 
paper,  on  salicylic  acid,  was  read  by  M.  Zanni,  a  third  by  M.  P.  Apery  on  some 
chemico-legal  investigations  in  a  supposed  case  of  poiso  ning,  which  led  to  a  discus- 
sion. Then  the  President  read  a  report  on  the  inspection  of  food  and  drink  in  the 
city. 
Munir  Effendi,  the  Minister  of  Public  Instruction,  had  been  present  at  the  seance 
up  to  this  point,  and  after  expressing  his  great  satisfaction  at  what  he  had  heard,  and 
promising  support  to  the  Society  on  behalf  of  the  government,  he  withdrew. 
Further  discussion  followed  on  the  establishment  of  a  journal,  a  laboratory  and  a 
museum  ;  some  more  official  business  was  got  through,  and  the  session  terminated. 
— Chemist  and  Druggist. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  New  South  Wales  held  its  third  annual  meet- 
ing at  the  Society's  rooms  in  Sidney,  July  nth,  M.  F.  Senior,  J.  P.,  in  the  chair. 
.Reports  of  the  officers  were  read  and  acted  on,  and  a  petition  to  the  Legislative 
