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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
The Pharmaceutist, unlike the ordinary tradesman, enters business through 
the medium of educational qualification, he is therefore at liberty to consider 
the value of such preparation as part of his stock and fixtures, and to enter his 
skill and acquired ability as items in the price-book. The public will not desert 
him if he courageously ventures on the experiment, they will not cavil at each 
particular act, but will accept him altogether as competent and trustworthy, 
and “a business of confidence” is the only one, in these days of competition, 
worth undertaking. Heaven save us from the drudgery of a chance connexion. 
Nor should it be forgotten that the stock already mentioned has often as little 
intrinsic value as a physician’s recipe; it cannot be appraised like goods in a 
merchant’s office, or a list of objects in an auction-room, the tariff must be regu¬ 
lated by the time and labour spent upon the sale. As members of an honourable 
Society we are bound to conduct our business in a creditable manner; we need 
neither grasp nor cheat, still less (following in the wake of the co-operative 
mania) exhibit placards in the window offering ruinous discount. 
Let us strive to get our living so as to command respect, and bequeath to our 
descendants the heritage of a vocation the better worthy of acceptance from 
having passed through our hands. 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, May Qth, 1868, 
Present—Messrs. Bird, Bottle, Bourdas, Carteighe, Deane, Evans, Haselden, Hills, 
luce, Morson, Randall, Sandford, Savage, Squire, and Waugh, 
The following w r ere elected 
MEMBERS. 
Barnes, Lawrence Robert .Preston. 
Cole, Frederick.Stoke Newington. 
Corder, Octavius .Norwich. 
Ellinor, George.Sheffield. 
Henshall, Samuel Harding.Seymour, Victoria. 
Shaw, Benjamin .Halifax. 
The following having paid their arrears and their subscriptions for the current year 
were restored to Membership :— 
Cochran, Robert .Forfar, N.B. 
Hornby, Edward Preston .Sheffield. 
James, Henry .Woolwich. 
Monro, Henry L...Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Withers, John ..;.Reading. 
The following were elected Honorary and Corresponding Members of the Society:— 
Dumas, Jean-Baptiste......Paris. 
Quain, Richard, M.D.London. 
Parrish, Edward .Philadelphia. 
Resolved,—That free laboratory instruction be given to the Jacob Bell scholars for 
the Session 1868-69. 
