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BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
“Every well-wisher of Pharmacy, and indeed every one interested in the 
public welfare must rejoice at the success which has recently crowned long 
years of effort in the direction of Pharmaceutical legislation. The amount of 
skill and ability with which the Pharmaceutical Chemist, or Chemist and 
Druggist of the future, shall discharge his duties will depend now on the effi¬ 
ciency of a Board of Examiners, appointed indirectly by chemists and drug¬ 
gists themselves. The best interests of prescribers, dispensers, and patients, 
can alone be secured by demanding, sooner or later, a high standard of edu¬ 
cational qualification on the part of the candidates who may present them¬ 
selves for examination. It is to be hoped, therefore, that every individual 
follower of our common calling will take a sufficiently wide, elevated, and 
dignified view of the present position of affairs as shall result in the material 
extension and increase of power of that Society into the hands of whose 
Council the choice of Examiners, and the general conduct of Pharmacy is now 
placed by Act of Parliament.” 
Mr. Beady, Treasurer, presented the following Statement of Accounts :— 
The Treasurer in Account with the British Pharmaceutical Conference , 18G7-6S. 
Dr. £ s. d. 
To Cash in hand, August, 1867 . 5 6 7 
,, Sale of Proceedings . 0 5 0 
,, 334 Subscriptions, viz. 
7 for 1865-6 
41 for 1866-7 
343 for 1867-8 
41 for 1868-9 
1 for 1869-70 
1 for 1870-71 (Total 334) ... 83 10 0 
£89 1 7 
Cr. £ s. d. 
By General Printing—J. E. 
Taylor and Co.£2 5 0 
,, General Printing—J. Bell 5 2 6 
-7 7 6 
,, Cost of Proceedings — J. 
E. Taylor and Co. .£17 10 6 
„ Cost of Proceedings—W. 
West . 3 18 0 
-21 8 6 
,, Expenses connected with the Dun¬ 
dee Meeting. 6 15 2 
,, Stationery . 1 0 2 
„ Postage . 13 4 4 
„ Carriage of Parcels . 15 2 
,, Directing Circulars . 2 4 2 
,, Newspapers for Reports. 0 10 
,, Balance in hand. 35 15 7 
£89 1 7 
1868. 
August. Balance in hand .£35 15 7 
Subscriptions due (340 in all)— 
4 for 1864^5, still unpaid . 10 0 
17 for 1865-6 „ 4 5 0 
109 for 1866-7 „ 27 5 0 
210 for 1867-8 „ 52 10 0 
'Examined and found correct, 
WILLIAM LAIRD,' 
G. B. MACK AY. 1 
Auditor's. 
Dun-dee, August 5 th, 1868. 
Mr. W. Searby (Norwich) moved, and Mr. W. J. Gardiner (Norwich) 
seconded the adoption of the Report and Statement of Accounts, which were 
accepted unanimously. 
The President then proceeded to deliver his 
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 
Gentlemen,—In accordance with the arrangement made last year at Dun¬ 
dee, we have now assembled to hold at Norwich, as usual under the shadow 
of the British Association, the Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the British 
Pharmaceutical Conference. 
Instituted at Newcastle on Tyne in the year 1863 and commencing its la¬ 
bours on a humble and unpretending scale, our Society has year by year in¬ 
creased in numbers, while the proceedings of its annual meetings regularly 
