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when they began to feel their superiority acquired by scientific training, they would 
then, as a matter of course, demand a very considerable increase in their salaries ; and, 
in order to pay higher salaries, chemists must charge higher prices. They had therefore 
to choose now between adopting at once a scale of reasonable and remunerative charges, 
or doing so after a year or two at the dictation of the assistants. 
Mr. Hampson, in reply to a previous speaker, who, before adopting the list, urged the 
desirability of a complete canvass being made of the chemists of surrounding towns, 
expressed the opinion that so large an undertaking was impracticable, and did not 
come within the scope of the Association. He recommended chemists in those towns 
to meet together to discuss and, if possible, to agree to the list. He strongly solicited 
the unanimous adoption of the list, as a precedent and a basis for a more perfect scheme 
which experience would doubtless render necessary. 
Finally, the list was unanimously adopted. 
Mr. Robinson (Pendleton) then proposed, and Mr. Boden (Patricroft) seconded, “That 
members of the Association endeavour, in their respective districts, to secure the co¬ 
operation of members of the trade in making charges according to the scale.” Carried 
unanimously. 
A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the proceedings. 
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The usual Monthly Meeting was held on Friday evening, April 9th, at the Exchange 
Rooms ; Mr. Atherton in the chair. 
There was a very large meeting, H. Sugden Evans, Esq., Vice-President of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, having consented to deliver an address to the Society on Phar¬ 
maceutical Education. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The President had great pleasure in calling the attention of the meeting to the 
cabinet of materia medica on the table, which he believed contained nearly every phar¬ 
maceutical and chemical preparation and drug in the British Pharmacopoeia, admirably 
arranged and classified, and intended to assist the student of pharmacy in preparing for 
examination. 
They were indebted in a very great measure to their visitor, Mr. Evans, for that very- 
useful gift, and it only added more to the obligation they owed to him for his presence 
amongst them that evening. 
He had very much pleasure in presenting to the Society the cabinet at the request 
and on behalf of Messrs. Evans, Sons, and Co., Liverpool, and Messrs. Evans, Lescher, 
and Evans, London. 
A cordial vote of thanks was passed unanimously to Messrs. Evans and Co. for their 
valuable present. 
The President, in introducing Mr. H. Sugden Evans, briefly alluded to the im¬ 
portance of pharmaceutical education, and the magical effect produced on the slumbering 
energies of the body of chemists *by the passing of the Pharmacy Act. This importance 
was felt in Nottingham, and had resulted in the formation of the Nottingham Chemists’ 
Association. Pharmaceutical education was their aim, and he congratulated the So¬ 
ciety that so powerful and influential an advocate had honoured them by coming to 
address them on the subject. 
Mr. Evans then delivered an admirable address, which want of space compels us to 
omit. 
The President expressed his gratification at listening to the able remarks of Mr. 
Evans, who had done them great service, not only by enunciating his sound opinions 
on pharmaceutical education and the excellent advice he had given them, but by 
encouraging them in their good work, and increasing their energy from the position 
he held as Vice-President of the Pharmaceutical Society. The subject recalled to his 
mind the important matter introduced by Mr. Reynolds, of Leeds, in the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Journal of last month, namely, the recognized and substantial support of the 
Society to local educational institutions. He had long held the opinion that the parent 
Society might very much further education and emulation in the provinces by such 
