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Thk  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  Meeting. — This  body  met 
in  the  Royal  Institution  building,  Colquitt  street.  Liverpool,  at  10  o'clock, 
A.,M.,  on  Tuesday,  the  I3th  of  September,  Mr.  W.  VV.  Stoddart,  Presi- 
dent. A  s  a  preliminary  step,  920  candidates  for  membership  were  duly 
elected  by  ballot,  making  the  members  of  the  Conference  number  about 
1,500.  The  report  of  the  executive  committee  exhibits  the  fact  that  an 
active  canvass  for  members  throughout  the  country  had  produced  the 
large  additional  membership.  The  report  announces  that  the  year  book, 
under  the  editorship  of  Mr.  Brough,  maybe  expected  about  December 
1st.  It  also  informs  of  the  liberal  donation  of  Thomas  Hyde  Hills,  of  a 
check  for  fifty  guineas,  to  promote  the  objects  of  the  Association.  Dele- 
gates were  in  attendance  from  the  local  associations  at  Bristol,  Notting- 
ham, Edinburgh,  Manchester,  London,  Ashton  and  Dunkinfield,  Scarbo- 
rough, Leeds,  Bradford,  Sunderland,  Bath,  Brighton,  and  Newcastle-on- 
Tyne.  Prof.  Carlos  Murray,  of  Buenos  Ayros  ;  Prof.  Soubeiran,  of  Paris, 
•and  Senor  Joachim  Correo  de  Mello,  of  Brazil,  were  elected  foreign 
(members.  The  President  delivered  along  and  interesting  address,  full 
of  scientific  facts,  and  concluding  with  a  well  merited  eulo2;ium  on  the 
Secretaries  and  Treasurer,  Messrs.  Attfield,  Reynolds  and  Brady. 
In  the  evening,  after  this  session,  the  President  and  officers  were  enter- 
tained by  the  local  committee  by  a  dinner  at  the  Adelphi  Hotel,  the 
party  numbering  more  than  one  hundred,  which  was  conducted  in  true 
English  style,  with  toasts  and  repartee.  It  was  from  this  social  meeting 
of  the  off]  cers  that  the  telegram  received  by  the  Baltimore  meeting 
emanated. 
The  Treasurer's  report  was  read,  and  a  committee  appointed  on  the 
Exhibition,  when  the  following  papers  were  read,  viz.:  On  the  Purity  of 
Yellow  Bees  Wax  of  Pharmacy,  by  Edward  Davies  ;  on  Saccharo-Chi- 
rettin,  by  D.  S.  Kemp,  of  Bombay;  on  the  Strength  of  24  Specimens  of 
Saccharated  Carbonate  of  Iron  ;  on  an  Apparatus  for  Regulating  Heat, 
and  on  the  Apprenticeship  and  Early  Training  of  Pharmacists,  by  F. 
Baden  Benger  ;  Notes  on  the  Cultivation  of  the  Opium  Poppy  in  Aus- 
tralia, by  John  W.  Wood;  Analysis  of  Bitter  Cassava  Juice,  by  Profes- 
sor Attfield  ;  on  the  so-called  Citrate  of  Magnesia,  of  Pharmacy,  by  F. 
M,  Rimmington  ,  on  the  Specific  Gravity  and  Actual  Weight  of  Certain 
Volume  Measures  of  Various  Liquids,  by  the  same,  and  on  Decoction  of 
Sarsaparilla,  by  the  same. 
When  the  Conference  re-asserabled  at  10  o'clock,  on  Wednesday 
morning,  September  14th,  Prof.  Attfield  stated  that  an  answer  had  been 
received  from  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  conference 
at  Baltimore.  After  some  usual  business,  the  reading  of  papers  was  re- 
sumed in  taking  up  a  long  essay  by  Mr.  Joseph  Ince,  on  "  A  Century  of 
Old  Books  Relating  to  Pharmacy."  This  is  the  extent  of  the  proceed- 
ings received  through  the  Pharmaceutical  journals,  which  print  the  pro" 
ceediogs  by  short  instalments. 
