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fore from those who, in the battle of life, are compelled to fight for their 
daily bread. Pharmacy forms no exception to the rule. 
Often in these pages has study been recommended on its own account, and 
for the sake of those intellectual pleasures which alone it can bestow. A few 
days hence this and other aspects of student-work will pyobably be introduced 
by one who is singularly competent for the task. It remains our duty dis¬ 
tinctly and unhesitatingly to allude to trade considerations : let these young 
inquirers rest thoroughly persuaded that just in proportion to their individual 
attainments in those branches of science, by the knowledge of which they have 
to gain a livelihood, will be in the usual order of Glod’s providence their 
chance of ultimate success. This positive and personal acquirement (of which 
no man and no circumstances can deprive them afterwards) utilized and di¬ 
rectly made to bear on daily business, constitutes the secret of modern enter¬ 
prise. Others (marvellously few) a century ago hit on the same plan and 
kept it dark ; now, every year adds to the number of those who are sharp 
enough for their own interest to follow the example. 
The future pharmacist must be prepared to run the race, or, without 
the slightest figurative allusion, there will be no crown for him. May we 
invite such as have not entered the lists already, to avail themselves of 
the advantages offered by this Society ? nowhere will they find means 
more directly adapted to the end in view ; we have occasionally thought they 
were neglected because too cheap. A fair acquaintance with the three great 
branches of instruction given is indispensable, unless the druggist be content 
to be outstripped by others ; laboratory manipulation, analysis, whether ap¬ 
plied to commercial or scientific purposes, is of a practical importance which 
cannot be estimated. 
We ask our young friends to think the question over solely, just this 
moment, from the view-point of personal advantage, and trade gain. Once 
more rises the spectre of three examinations—they form three tests by which 
the student may ascertain how he stands. Let him not include this dread 
amongst his other anxieties,—surely we have laid the ghost. 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, September 2nd , 1868, 
Present—Messrs; Bottle, Deane, Edwards, Morson, Randall, Sandford, Standring, and 
Stoddart, 
The following was elected a 
MEMBER. 
Duffin, Thomas.Wakefield. 
Mr. Thomas Brend, of Swansea, having paid his arrears, was restored to Membership. 
The Secretary submitted the following communication :— 
“ Plough Court , Lombard Street , E.C ., Sspt 2nd , 1868. 
“ To Mr. E. Bremridge, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
“Dear Sir,—As President of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, I have been' 
requested to communicate to the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society a resolution of 
the Conference, to this effect — 
