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bringing the case to a satisfactory issue, but nothing conclusive has been arranged, 
although further proceedings in Chancery have been stayed pending negotia¬ 
tion. The following note from the Solicitors to the Pharmaceutical Society, ad¬ 
dressed to the Secretary, will explain the present position of the case, and their 
opinion with reference to the course that ought to be adopted :— 
“1, East India Avenue, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. 
August llth, 1865. 
“ Mr. Elias Premridge, Secretary to the Pharmaceutical Society. 
“Dear Sir,—We beg to acknowledge receipt of your note, requesting us to advise 
whether capsuled articles can now, with safety from suit, be taken into or kept in stock. 
“ We are not in a position to report the termination of either of the numerous Chancery 
suits relating to capsules in which we appear for the Defendants. Probably the defence 
will be successful; and there exist grounds for believing that the Plaintiff will abandon 
his suits, and perhaps promise not to institute other like suits against retailers (to the 
present time) of capsuled articles ; but nothing definite has been arranged, and we can¬ 
not modify the opinion expressed in ours of the 22nd July, to the effect that ‘ the only 
course now really safe from the annoyance of suit is neither to take nor keep in stock 
any capsuled article.* 
“ Each dealer in articles capsuled has it in his own power to guard against the possi¬ 
bility of being annoyed by suit; he cannot be protected if he will not guard himself. 
“We are, dear Sir, yours truly, 
“ Flux and Argles. 
“P.S. We cannot advise that retailers in the Colonies are free from the annoyance of 
Suits. F. & A.” 
At the last meeting of the Committee it was decided to hold a public meeting 
of chemists and druggists, perfumers, and patent medicine dealers, at 17, 
Bloomsbury Square, on Thursday, the 5th of October, at eleven o’clock, to 
take into consideration the present position of these trades in reference to the 
sale of capsuled articles. It was also decided that 10,000 copies of the follow¬ 
ing notice to the public should be printed and supplied to those who may make 
application for them :— 
“NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. 
“ As the retailing of articles covered with metallic capsules has exposed sellers, and 
may expose buyers, to suits in Chancery, articles which have hitherto been sold so 
covered are now sold here not capsuled.” 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, 2nd August, 1865, ' 
Present—Messrs. Brady, Davenport, Deane, Hanbury, Hills, 
ford, Savage, and Squire, 
Morson, Orridge, 
H 2 
Sand- 
