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THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH 
WALES AND THE BOARD OF TECHNICAL 
EDUCATION. 
On another page we give full particulars of the scheme 
propounded by the Board of Technical Education for the 
absorption of the School of Pharmacy of the New South 
Wales Society into its own organisation. We commend the 
extraordinary proposals to the attention of our readers and 
especially of members of the Pharmaceutical Society of New 
South Wales. Our New South Wales correspondent speaks 
of them in strong terms ; and it may be as well to mention 
that neither he nor ourselves is the mouthpiece in this matter 
of the Council or the Society. The Council proceeds to its 
discussion on May .S, and naturally we do not anticipate 
their decision. But we offer some remarks on the subject 
which we think will be the natural expression of the thoughts 
of most pharmacists on a careful study of the document. 
The prime objection to the whole scheme is that the 
Technical Board assumes a veto of everything connected 
with the proposed College, the rules, the use of gifts and 
bequests to the College, examination papers, the method of' 
conducting the examinations, and the election of professors, 
and of teachers. That is to say, the Technical Board re- 
serves to itself the right to interfere with, alter, revise, or re- 
pudiate every suggestion or action relating to the College. 
Secondly, the proposals in a most unwarrantable manner 
interfere with the private constitution of the Pharmaceutical 
Society itself. They actually presume to say that the Presi- 
dent should be elected every third year, and to dictate the- 
manner of election, and offer as an inducement to the adop- 
tion of this, the overwhelming honour of a seat at the Board 
subject to the approval of the Blinister of Technical Education. 
It may or may not be a desirable thing that the term of office 
of the President should be three years, or that he should be 
elected by ballot by the members instead of by the Council of 
the Society, but if there is any British blood left in the veins 
of New South Welshmen the surest way to get such proposals 
rejected is to submit them as they have been submitted by an 
outside body who presumes to tack to them a bribe of a seat 
at its own table, subject to consent ! 
The very first question to be asked in this connection is, 
why should the School of Pharmacy be transferred to the Tech- 
nical Board rather than the pharmacy department of the latter 
to the Pharmaceutical Society? This seems to be the- 
logical proceeding, the proceeding in consonance with precedent 
and usage. Who ever heard_of pharmacy or medicine or law 
being under the control of a mixed body, elected from the 
general public, and without any special qualifications what- 
ever ? 
The next question, supposing this preliminary difficulty 
ia surmounted, is, what does the Technical Board offer? It 
proposes to pay the Society the cost of the apparatus and 
specimens now in its possession; it offers the Society the 
privilege of electing half the managing committee of the pro- 
posed College, and also the President. (It is by no means 
clear if the President is to be one of the four, or an additional 
member. Even if he has a casting vote he will be the 
