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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST 
October 5, 1895 
pbarmaceuttcal Socicti^ of (5reat 
Britain. 
COUNCIL MEETING. 
R esuming business after the holidays there was on Wed- 
nesday a good attendance, the absentees beicg Mr. 
Neweholme and Mr. Walter Hills, and their absence was due 
to illness. M**. Hills has rarely been absent since he was 
elected a member of the Council, and after the minutes were 
read the President explained that the doctor had sent 
Mr. Hills to the seaside for a few weeks to recruit after his 
illness. The President’s sympathetic sentences hoping for 
Mr. Hills’s complete recovery were received with cheers. The 
business of the meeting was largely of a routine character — 
indeed, there was only one matter which deserves the dignity 
of leaded type — viz , an announcement by the President 
that the Law and Parliamentary Committee had considered 
the report of the special committee appointed to inquire 
into the working of the Companies Act, and recommended the 
Council to unite with other bodies, in order to get the one- 
man company arrangement stopped by Act of Parliament. 
In fact, the Council seem determined to carry out the reform 
which we suggested two months ago, by making an amend- 
ment of the Companies Act the basis of a radical reform in 
the practice of pharmacy. 
Correspondence. 
There was a fair mass of correspondence to be dealt with 
when business commenced. First, there was a letter from 
Mr. Thomas Greenish, thanking the Council for their resolu- 
tion of appresiation on his retirement. Miss Bland wrote on 
behalf of her mother thanking the Council for their sympathy 
on the death of her father, Mr. John Bland. Ic was an 
interesting letter she sent, and in the course of it she 
mentioned that hsr father knew Greek and Latin well, 
and spoke French, German, Italian, and Dutch. He had 
leaint Dutch in order to get at some of the painting-secrets 
of the old masters. The ether letters were from Mr. Hills, 
Mr. Newsholme, Mr. Robert Thomson (a corresponding 
member and a botanist), and Professor Vogl, the Hanbury 
medallist, who wrote in English to excuse his absence, as 
the time did not fit in with his official engagements, nor did 
his health permit the journey. Some of these letters were 
read later, but we have grouped them here for convenience. 
Finance 
next occupied the CounciTs attention, but it is little that we 
cau report upon it this month, as the acoustical properties 
of the Council- chamber seemed to be bad on Wednesday 
forenoon. This we gathered, however — that during August 
and September tbe receipts (examination -fees chiefly) 
amounted to 2,698Z , apart from the sale of the last 
l.OOOZ. of Consols, which has been compelled by lack of 
current revenue. After pajing the accounts passed at the 
August meeting, the Treasurer found himsalf with a balance 
of 1,566^. and fresh demands for 2,58U. There is no 
more examination revenue this jear, but the President ex- 
plained, in moving the adoption of the report, that there is 
a comfortable cheque coming along from the publishers. 
The Benevolent Fund received about 200Z. during the two 
months. Of this, Brighton Juniors sent II 5 . 3^Z., collected 
amongst themselves ; and, added the President, “ if assis- 
tants throughout the large towns in the country did the 
same there would be a considerable result.” (“ Hear, hear,” 
chimed in the membeis.) 
Vale Pasteur, 
^ The President, again rising, and speaking in an excep- 
tionally sober tone, said that since last meeting the Society 
had lost one of its honorary members by the death of Pro- 
fessor Pasteur. The early work of the great savant was in 
the domain of pure chemistry, but latterly he had been 
associated with other branches of science, and the results of 
his labours were such that at the present time he was better 
known than any other man of science. The remarkable 
characteristic of the man was bis singular modesty, and he had 
all along laboured without seeking his own personal advan- 
tage, in this way being very like their own Faraday. His- 
name was one which would stand out for all time as one of 
the brightest sons of France. (Hear, hear.) The President 
then submitted the following motion : — 
This Council deeply regret^the death of Professor Louis Pasteur, F.R.S., 
an honorary member of'the Society, whose labours in chemical and 
biological science are universally honoured, and whose simplicity of 
character is everywhere revered. This Oouucil desires to offer to 
Madame Pasteur its most respectful condolence, and begs to assure 
her of the warmest sympathy of the members. 
The Vice-President (Mr. J. Harrison) desired, in 
seconding the motion, to say a word about the genius of 
Pasteur, and re-echoed all that the President had said, add- 
ing that the simplicity of his character, and his firm resolve 
to devote the powers with which Almighty God bad gifted 
him to relieve human suffering, in themselves were good 
grounds for paying ibis tribute to bis memory. (Hear, hear.) 
The motion was carried unanimously. 
Payments. 
The new Bell scholars are to receive the first moiety of 
their scholarship, and the annuitants the payment up till 
Christmas. 
Benevolent Fund. 
Fourteen cases were considered. One was not entertained, 
five were deferred for further particulars, one was handed 
over to the Secretary to treat from the casual relief fund, 
and seven received grants — viz., 13^., 12^ , 5/ , and four 10^. 
The Vice-President briefly commented upon the cases, 
stating that there was nothing unusual about them, except 
the number, which was a record in his experience. 
Election of Annuitants. 
The Secretary reported that during the year four annui- 
tants had died, leaving the number at present 45 , the 
same as it was before the last election. The committee 
recommended that four more should be elected on Decem- 
ber 10 , and that the names to be voted on should be 
Thomas Board 
Elizabeth Willisoa 
George Ramsdea 
Vera Hayes 
Tomkiu Young 
Jonathan S. Eyre 
Before the motion was adopted, Mr. Hampson formally 
protested against the election as being virtually an unneces- 
sary contest and race. 
The Cape and the Preliminary. 
A letter was read from the Registrar of Cape Colony Pharmacy 
Board asking the Council to recognise the higher education 
examination of the Cape University in lieu of the Society’s 
Preliminary examination. Mr. Rendall, the Registrar, stated 
that if this were done it would be a great convenience to 
Cape students. The President said that Mr. Pinches, of 
the College of Preceptors, thought highly of the examination 
in question, and the matter was referred to the examiner& 
for approv^. 
Company Trading. 
A report of the Law and Parliamentary Committee was 
read, in which the Council was advised to allow the Presi- 
dent to co-operate with other bodies to push on legislation 
against illegitimate company trading, as recommended by 
the Companies Committee. The report also stated that the 
committee had considered the advisability of drafting a new 
Pharmacy Bill, and the matter was delajed until next- 
meeting. 
The President, in moving the adoption of the report, 
explained that he had submitted a statement in regard to 
limited-company pharmacy to the committee, which was 
referred to in the Blue-book, as justifjing the action of the 
Government in regard to the matter, and the committee, in 
their draft Bill, had inserted aclause which, with modification, 
would meet the case. The Law and Parliamentary Com- 
mittee thought it advisable that the President and Secretary 
should be authorised to communicate with other bodies, in 
order that they might organise themselves and press the 
authorities to go on with the matter. In the first place 
