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long as we possessed no special rights beyond a distinctive name, could see no 
advantage in an educational qualification, to adopt one now as the only plea on 
which they can ask for recognition. 
And what are the remedies which our correspondent, after so much considera¬ 
tion, proposes 
1st. To obtain a new Act making membership compulsory, and establishing 
two grades. 
2nd. To invite all men now engaged in the business to have their names 
enrolled. 
3rd. To reduce the subscription to 10s., and discontinue the Journal. 
4 th. To make apprenticeship, as well as educational qualification, essential to 
admission ; the latter to be made gradually more stringent. 
We have hinted before that Mr. Barling could not have watched the course of 
the Society ; but when we find that his remedies are in the main but copied from 
its conduct, only making its rules more exclusive, we are inclined to retract that 
opinion, and think rather that he sought on the one hand to impress “outsiders” 
with the utter worthlessness of the Society of which he has been so long a mem¬ 
ber, and, on the other, to frighten intending candidates for examination by an 
erroneous and extravagant description of the difficulties in their way. 
Amongst our correspondence of this month will be found a letter from Mr. 
Hornsby on the foregoing subject; we commend it to our readers as worthy of 
special consideration. 
To our mind, the recommendation of the remedy disproves the error, rendering 
comment on the letter almost unnecessary ; but our Society is recruited from the 
junior members of the trade, men who have not had the opportunity of watching 
its progress, and we cannot therefore leave them to infer from our silence that 
we acquiesce in Mr. Barling’s opinions. 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, August 5, 1863, 
Present—Messrs. Bird, Davenport, Deane, George Edwards, Hanbury, Haselden, Hills, 
Morson, Proctor, Reynolds, Sandford, Savage, and Waugh,—the following were elected 
MEMBERS. 
William Adolphus Rolfe. Bath. 
John Bray . Bishop Stortfof.d. 
John Brunt Mackey. London. 
The Reports of the Professors and the Director of the Laboratory were read, and the 
Sessional Prizes and Certificates awarded. 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
The sum of Twenty Pounds was granted from this Fund to the aged widow of a late 
Member in the West Riding of Yorkshire. 
