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PROPOSED SANDFORD TESTIMONIAL. 
SYNOPSIS OP THE MODIFIED EXAMINATION FOE ASSIS¬ 
TANTS UNDER SECTION 4 OF THE PHAEMACY ACT, 1868. 
APPROVED BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL. 
“ Prescriptions. 
“ Candidates will be required to read Autograph Prescriptions, translate 
them into English, render a correct Translation of the Directions for Use, 
and detect Unusual Doses. 
“ Practical Dispensing. 
To weigh, measure, and compound Medicines, write the Directions in 
suitable language, finish and properly direct each Package. 
“ Materia Medica and Quality of Specimens. 
“ To recognize the Pharmacopoeia Chemicals in frequent demand, and 
specimens of Eoots, Barks, Leaves, Fruits, Eesins, and Gums in ordinary 
use ; the following Plants, either in a fresh or dried state, or from plates :— 
Belladonna, Stramonium, Hyoscyamus, Conium, Aconitum, Digitalis, and 
Sabina ; also to estimate the quality of each specimen submitted and its free¬ 
dom from adulteration. 
“ Pharmacy. 
“To recognize the Preparations of the Pharmacopoeia which are not of a 
definite Chemical Nature, such as Extracts, Tinctures, and Powders, and give 
the proportions of the more active ingredients.” 
Persons passing the above will be registered as Chemists and Druggists. 
The Board will meet to examine candidates for the Modified Examination on 
Friday, November 6th, at 1030 a.m. (For further particulars, see p. 2 of 
cover.) 
PEOPOSED SANDFORD TESTIMONIAL. 
The following Circular has been issued by the Honorary General Secretaries 
of the British Pharmaceutical Conference :— 
October 1, 1868. 
Sir,—The accompanying Resolutions were unanimously adopted at the 
Annual General Meeting, recently held at N orwich. 
Proposed by Mr. Reynolds (Leeds), seconded by Mr. Searey (Nor¬ 
wich) :— 
“ That the cordial thanks of this Conference and the whole Profession are due, and 
are hereby tendered, to the President of the Pharmaceutical Society, and those who have 
laboured with him, for those exertions in the cause of Pharmaceutical Education which 
have resulted in the Pharmacy Act of 1868.” 
Proposed by Mr. J. D. Smith (Norwich), seconded by Mr. Caley (Nor¬ 
wich) : — 
“ That it is desirable there should be some public recognition of the services rendered 
to the cause of Pharmaceutical Education, and the improvement of the status of the 
Profession, by Mr. George Webb Sandford, President of the Pharmaceutical Society, 
to whose careful and constant devotion the passing of the Pharmacy Act of 1868 is in 
great measure due.” 
Proposed by Mr. Groves (Weymouth), seconded by Mr. Pitts (Nor¬ 
wich) :— 
