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'of the meeting be given to the Chairman for his conduct in the chair that day, and for 
the trouble he had taken in thus affording them so much valuable information as to their 
position in regard to the Pharmaceutical Society, and of the abandonment of the pro¬ 
posed amendments of the Medical Council’s Act.” 
A general wish was expressed that Mr. Hollier would take the trouble of calling them 
together at any time when he conceived there was a need for it, and Mr Bell remarked 
that he was sure their Chairman would bp well supported in his endeavours thus to ad¬ 
vance the interests of their profession. Mr. Bache remarked that as those meetings could 
not be called without some expenses being incurred, it was hardly fair these should fall 
upon the Chairman ; he would therefore suggest that a subscription should be made in 
order to defray them. This was at once done, and subscriptions raised, which, with that 
promised by letter, would fully cover all the expenditure. 
After the especial business of the meeting was concluded, a conversation took place 
respecting some of the alterations in the new Pharmacopoeia, many of which were unani¬ 
mously condemned by the chemists present. Extracts were read from the ‘ Lancet,’ and 
reference made to the lectures by Professors Bentley and Redwood, respecting them, and 
which the Chairman recommended to the attention of all present who had not seen them. 
As far as Dudley was concerned, the great and possibly dangerous inconveniences arising 
from the alterations were to some extent a dead letter, by several of the medical profession 
declaring it to be their intention chiefly to adhere to the preparations of the London 
Pharmacopoeia. 
A BILL FOB BEGULATING THE QUALIFICATIONS OF 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
Whereas it is expedient for the safety of the public that persons carry¬ 
ing on the business of a chemist and druggist by retail, in the keeping of 
open shop for the compounding of the prescriptions of duly qualified me¬ 
dical practitioners, should possess a competent practical knowledge of such 
business, and to that end, that from and after the day herein named, all 
persons, before commencing such business, should be duly examined as to 
their skill and knowledge, and that a Register should be established and 
kept of all such persons, and also of all persons on or before such day carry¬ 
ing on such business; and also that the Act passed in the 15th and 16th 
years of the reign of Iier present Majesty, intituled An Act for Regulating 
the Qualifications of Pharmaceutical Chemists, hereinafter described as 
the Pharmacy Act, should be amended: Be it enacted, by the Queen’s 
Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords 
Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assem¬ 
bled, and by authority of the same: 
1. From and after the 1st day of January, 1865, it shall not be lawful 
for any person to carry on the business of a chemist and druggist, in the 
keeping of open shop for the compounding of the prescriptions of duly 
qualified medical practitioners, in any part of Great Britain, unless such 
person shall be a Pharmaceutical Chemist, or shall be duly registered as a 
Chemist and Druggist under this Act, and no person shall be registered as 
a Chemist and Druggist under this Act unless he shall have theretofore 
carried on business as a chemist and druggist, or shall have been regis¬ 
tered as an Assistant as herein provided, or shall have been examined by 
examiners and have received a certificate of competent skill and know¬ 
ledge, and also shall have attained the full age of twenty-one years. 
2. All such persons as shall from time to time be appointed to conduct 
examinations under the Pharmacy Act shall be and are hereby declared 
to be examiners for the purposes of this Act; and a certificate of compe¬ 
tent skill and knowledge, and qualification to be registered as an Assistant 
under the said Pharmacy Act, shall be deemed to be a certificate of com¬ 
petent skill and knowledge within the meaning of this Act. 
3. The Registrar appointed or to be appointed under or by virtue of the 
Pharmacy Act shall be the Registrar for the purposes of this Act. 
YOL. Y. 2 P 
After the 1st 
January, 1865, 
all chemists and 
druggists, if not 
Pharmaceutical 
Chemists, to be 
examined.—Sav¬ 
ing rights of 
Chemists and 
Druggists then 
in business. 
Examiners under 
Pharmacy Act to 
be the Examiners 
under this Act.— 
Certificate of 
competent skill, 
etc. 
Registrar under 
Pharmacy Act to 
be Registrar 
under this Act. 
