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JURY LISTS. 
It appears to be too much the fashion amongst metropolitan druggists (al¬ 
though your correspondent hails from Windermere) to depreciate and sneer at 
the labours of the provincial trade, because, forsooth, they deal in other things 
besides those strictly pharmaceutical. But let a “Major Associate” or “any 
other man” commence an establishment for the practice of “ pure pharmacy” 
in even a respectably'sized provincial town, and I will venture to say that at the 
endof twelve months a very gloomy prospect awaits him, if, indeed, before that time 
he be not the identical “ X. Y. Z.” whose business (?) appears in your advertising 
columns for disposal. No, Sir, in all cases the trade must adapt itself to the re¬ 
quirements of the district, or be content with failure. I had thought that a 
“ Major Associate” would have had more enlightened views with respect to de¬ 
mand and supply than not to know that in thinly populated districts the re¬ 
quirements of the business are very different to, and that the division of labour 
and conveniences of life cannot be so carefully studied as in a densely crowded 
city. 
I beg likewise to demur to the proposition which he leaves to be inferred from 
his remarks, that in what are termed “genteel” neighbourhoods, Associates of 
the Pharmaceutical Society are always preferred. Such I know in many in¬ 
stances is not the case, and beg on this subject to indorse the very sensible re¬ 
marks of Mr. Barling in your last. 
Again, the instance quoted by your correspondent to illustrate the superiority 
of the “ Pharmaceutical Chemist” over the “Outsider,” proves nothing but a 
piece of gross carelessness by the prescriber and of dogged obstinacy on his part 
when apprised of his error; indeed, if anything, it rebounds more to the credit of 
the maligned chemist than otherwise. 
Strictures like those before noticed, “ while they may make the unskilful laugh, 
cannot but make the judicious grieve,” and tend only to provoke animosity 
from “ those that are without,” for every man should be allowed to be the best 
judge of his own business requirements. Apologizing for the length of this com¬ 
munication, 
I remain, Sir, yours very respectfully, 
Durham , Avgust 3rd , 18G8. A SUBSCRIBER. 
JURY LISTS. 
TO THE EDITORS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
Sirs,—The overseers of this parish (Clerkenwell), in the papers they have dis¬ 
tributed amongst the several householders for the return of persons qualified to 
serve on juries for the ensuing year, have omitted to include “Pharmaceutical 
Chemists ” in the list of persons entitled to exemption. 
In some parishes these papers are issued every alternate, or every third year, 
and in some parishes no such papers are issued ; it is therefore probable (this 
being the first year that Pharmaceutical Chemists are included in the “ precept ”) 
that the returns throughout the country will contain the names of many of our 
body, and subject them to some trouble and inconvenience in attending per¬ 
sonally to claim their exemption when summoned. 
My object is, by your permission, to draw the attention of every Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemist to the lists which will be affixed to the doors of churches and 
chapels during the first three Sundays in September; and should his name ap- 
peaiq would suggest that he attend at the petty sessions on the day fixed for 
hearing objections, having with him the Registrar's certificate of his registration, 
and get his name erased. 
While making these remarks, I may also suggest whether Pharmaceutical 
