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practice of the profession to contract with a chemist to dispense for him at a ruinous 
price, whereby the surgeon gets all the profit and the chemist all the work, so long 
will our proper professional remuneration be inadequate to our responsibility and edu¬ 
cation. 
Reference was also made to the practice of modern growth of prescribing concen¬ 
trated medicines. It was no advantage to the prescriber, an injustice to the dispenser, 
and a positive injury to the patient. 
Lastly, an appeal was made to the younger portion of those present. He said,— 
I am fully aware that, in provincial towns, young men have not the same opportuni¬ 
ties and facilities for study as in London and some of our larger provincial towns, like 
Liverpool and Manchester. It is the aim and duty of a society like ours to compensate 
for this deficiency as much as possible, by the formation of classes and the institution of 
lectures on those subjects which will best prepare you for those examinations. 
I have previously spoken of our responsibilities as masters. They have responded to 
the call, and, I am sure, are prepared to do their duty to you ; and I am sure it will be 
a pleasure to them to give you every opportunity of embracing the opportunities for in¬ 
struction afforded by the Society. You, as our assistants and apprentices, have an equal 
responsibility to avail yourselves fully of the advantages offered. Upon you devolves 
the task of sustaining the new character which we have but now assumed. It is to your 
energy, intelligence, and increased education, that we look for a justification of the 
efforts of the Pharmaceutical Society and Parliament in giving professional standing to 
our body. It is to you that we look for an elevation of the practice in Pharmacy in 
England which will place us in as good a position as pharmaciens in Paris and pharma¬ 
ceutists in other countries. 
To those of you who are preparing to present yourselves for the Modified Examina¬ 
tion, I would say, the examinations are almost exclusively confined to your ordinary 
work in the shop and the dispensing counter. If a man is intelligent and exhibits 
common sense during his examination, even if his answers are not quite up to the mark, 
I know enough of the examinations and the examiners to be able to speak positively 
that his case will receive favourable consideration. There is nothing in the examination 
that an assistant ought not to be conversant with before undertaking the duties of the 
dispensing counter. 
As regards apprentices, who have to pass, in due time, the regular Minor Examination, 
I hope to have another opportunity of speaking to them on the subject; but, in the 
meantime, would commend to them habits of observation ; know by sight, smell, and 
other physical characteristics, every drug, chemical, and pharmaceutical preparation in 
the shop ; cultivate habits of inquiry ; be diligent in your work, and, as you make a 
good apprentice, so shall you make a good and successful master. 
SHEFFIELD PHARMACEUTICAL AND CHEMICAL ASSOCIATION. 
The second monthly meeting was held in the rooms of the Society Music Hall, on 
Wednesday evening, March 10, when Mr. G. A. Cubley read a paper on “ Payment for 
Ability and Responsibility, not for Material.” 
The subject was well defined and ably handled, aud led to a very interesting discus¬ 
sion on the charges made for medicines prepared from physicians’ prescriptions. 
A unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Cubley for his valuable paper. 
The secretary afterwards announced the donations to the museum and library, and 
votes of thanks were passed to the contributors. 
It was further announced that <£20 had been already contributed by members in 
Sheffield towards furnishing the rooms; and that it was the intention of the council to 
open them a few nights a week, and to supply trade journals and other periodicals, 
is also contemplated to have a regular course of lectures given to the young men of the 
profession, so that they may have an opportunity of preparing themselves for the exa¬ 
minations rendered necessary by the “ Pharmacy Act of 1868.” 
