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ignorant, may undertake it; and expressing tlie opinion of the General Medical 
Council, that some legislative enactment is urgently called for to ensure com¬ 
petency in persons keeping open shops for dispensing medicines, and for tho 
compounding of physicians’ and surgeons’ prescriptions.” 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, May 4th, 1864, 
Present:—Messrs. Bird, Davenport, Deane, George Edwards, Hanbury, Haselden, Hills, 
Morson, Sandford, Savage, Squire, and Waugh,— 
The following were elected 
MEMBERS. 
Edinburgh.Buchanan, James. 
„ .Macfarlane, Andrew Yuile. 
Elie, N.B.Thomson, Charles. 
Jarrow .Watson, Richard Thomas. 
Lasswade, N.B.Macdonald, John. 
Liverpool .Buck, Jonathan Marsden. 
Luton..Giddings, William H. C. 
London .Cooper, Albert. 
„ .Foott, Richard Rogers. 
„ .Williams, Joseph John. 
Malmesbury ....Walker, William, junr. 
Mauritius .Pochard, Ernest Francois Marie. 
The following were 
RESTORED TO MEMBERSHIP :— 
William Henry Heelas.Reading. 
William Laen .Pembroke Dock. 
Resolved—That free Laboratory Instruction be given to the successful competitor for 
the Jacob Bell Scholarships for the ensuing session (1864-65). 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
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A further sum of one hundred pounds was ordered to be invested in Consols on account 
of this fund. 
A donation of twenty pounds was granted to a widow of a late London Member. And 
a second grant of ten pounds was also made to the family of a distressed Member in the 
west of England. 
The Secretary announced that he had received a communication from Mr. Frederick 
Barron, of Bush Lane, to the effect that he desired to become an annual subscriber of a 
guinea, and having inadvertently omitted to do so on first joining the Society he now 
enclosed a cheque for twelve guineas, in payment of what he considered back subscriptions. 
The following subscriptions were announced as having been received during the month 
of April:— 
Ballard, Edwin, Farringdon ... £0 10 6 
Barron, Frederick, Bush Lane— 12 12 0 
Bateson, Thomas, Kendal . 1 1 0 
Baynes, James, Hull .£0 5 0 
Bishop, Alfred, Mile-End New 
Town . 2 2 0 
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