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It may be some relief to those who are in doubt as to their liability for 
selling quinine wine, to be informed that the case referred to by Mr. Kerr 
was not of recent occurrence, and that since that time the Board of In¬ 
land Revenue have explicitly stated that quinine wine made according to 
the Pharmacopoeia may be sold without a sweets licence, and, unless the law 
be in other ways infringed, without a medicine stamp. We have received 
from Mr. Reid, of Montrose, the following copy of a letter which was sent 
him from Somerset House last June :— 
(A Copy.) 
Inland Revenue , Somerset House , London , W.C., 
» June 19 th, 1867. 
Sir,—The Board of Inland Revenue having had before them your application of the 
5th instant, 
I am directed to inform you, that if quinine wine is prepared in strict accordance with 
the recent edition of the Pharmacopoeia, it may be sold in any quantity without a British 
wine licence. 
The question whether or not it may be sold without a patent medicine licence and 
stamp depends (as in other cases) upon the particulars which may be contained in any 
printed label attached to the quinine wine. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
(Signed) Adam Young. 
Mr. John Reid , Montrose. 
We also find a letter to a similar purport, of more recent date, in ‘The 
Wholesale and Export Drug Company’s Advertiser,’ as follows :—■ 
Inland Revenue , Somerset House, London , W.C., 
October 11 th, 1867. 
Sir,—I am directed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to acquaint you, in reply 
to your letter of the 24th ult., that you will not be required to take out a sweets licence 
to enable you to sell wine of citrate of iron and quinine wine , so long as they are pre¬ 
pared as directed in the Pharmacopoeia, and are sold to be used as medicines. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
Adam Young, Assistant Secretary. 
Mr. Henry King. 
W r e think this satisfactorily settles the question, as far as relates to the sale 
of citrate of iron wine and quinine wine of the Pharmacopoeia. 
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THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, October 2nd, 1867, 
Present—Messrs. Bottle, Carteighe, Deane, Edwards, Hanbury, Hills, Ince, Morson, 
Savage, and Waugh, 
The following were elected— 
MEMBERS. 
Bennett, George.York. 
Harris, Henry William.Rochester. 
Hosking, Montague John Roberts...Southampton. 
Knight, Henry .Whitstable. 
Ross, Lewis Buttle.Great Driffield. 
