OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
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a™ Prists were in danger of being legislated for, contrary to their interests, and had :t 
not been for the energy of some who have since gone fo their rest, together with others 
Who Winn been snared to reap the reward of those labours, were present on this occa- 
Son’ thereVas noToubt tat fhat, as a body, we should have been found m a more 
humiliating position than we at present occupy. The progress of Pharmacy and Ch 
d-nktrv would have gone on. Nothing would have impeded that, but it wouia na\e 
f in /-f s wa y into a very different channel, viz. that of the medical profession, and tho^e 
who had a predilection ilx those sciences would have had to study them through the means 
of hosSit^Lnd othCT medical'schools; while, as a body, we should have become gradually 
rLSvery much into the humbler position of mere sellers of drugs, such as perhaps ex¬ 
isted in Ireland where the apothecary and druggist are two different persons. Looking 
their 1 present position, they were able to judge of the progress they had made through 
tneir presen i / Tym mdv Ind the Pharmaceutical Chemists derived benent 
M the^Society had^ also received much advantage which 
thev should not forget when hesitating to accede to the reasonable terms ouered in feir . 
NeUv’s Bill the onfwhich was promoted by this Society. They were now m the honour- 
able position which might be described as the fourth degree of the medical profession ; 
and instead of being disregarded by that body, and that profession having to look to 
foreign chemists for of ph^ aS pLlal chel 
they appeared rather to be g ^ connection with the Society. He believed lie 
mistry to the Pbarmaceutical Ghem * consulted tlie Pharma- 
stated the truth when he: sa.d —Remedies, and took their opinions on 
Ce ”h 1ST 1 Tha’ v rasno Xht adTanfe over the position they once enjoyed They were 
weSed of iame premises, an’ established institution and, at great cost, t.iey had now 
laboratories ancUmuseum, which might be classed withany otherm Europe Tne effect 
of all this had been to give Phmjjcjntaf K 
their Board of Examiners were > e n c .°f“““ ^ t h eir powe rs. Their Journal also 
Government were prepared so gratt ifl( , inatitutions a nd medical men in the 
found a place on the tables oi w scientific journals of the day. It was 
kingdom, and ranked with any « f oknati® t ministered .to the business 
well conducted, ’entertaining gatherings. Of 
wants of tne profession, i- , ^ rarely or ever attended any where so 
the few he had attended m his time l evisitors, or where 
many beautiful specimens, oi sue i t unexceptional a character, as were to he found 
there was so much t° instructj an ’ The A ad muc h to cause them to feel great 
at these friendly meetings of the oocie }. y anv other body had so 
confidence in the course they the Pharmaceutical Che- 
unproved themselves during Lm { vhomlder the greatest difficulties 
mists of this country. Iso aoabu we ‘® / ko themselves conspicuous by their 
would attain high honour anc. posi^ , but when they were associated to- 
scientific researches even Toni Society, derived/ some lustre from the 
gether m one oo y, tire ^ ’ £ ££ ie j r rjlore talented confreres. He must also con 
fame which surrounded the na ^ ad derived? through their influence as a Society, 
gratulate them on one acivanta to - , x _ v +i ip lgn^t had always been a 
fn their exemption from serving ^cotclullon’he mlghtlaytiraUhe progress of the 
matter of serious mconvemenc . Endv that should it he necessary to make 
Society had given them sue a posi i V- might present themselves before 
further efforts m regard to Ure;““^ 5 their ’ del / ands “if based on moderation and 
Parliament, and reasonably a P‘ ‘ , B 1(jnt p UI1 a was such as deserved 
justice, would be grant The state ° ^ the Council had e x- 
their special congratulations and tney oug^ indgment and prudence. 
ercised their functions in g dona t; ons s0 we ii bestowed, he alluded especially to 
In addition to the aboyinto the British Orpha’n Asylum, and to the re¬ 
tire purchase of an fission > the insurance of the hoy's life at a moderate 
couping of the in the Report one matter of regret as to the small 
KK sSs who attended the lectures and ^atones ™ 
pfainl bTXr ‘'anMication ‘that on the part’of the Society all had been done that 
