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These latter may be assumed to have been apprentices, and deducting them 
from the total number we have 12,638 principals and assistants and apprentices 
above the age of 20. As this return related only to England and Wales, while 
our Register includes Scotland,—and as the census was taken in 1861, since 
which a considerable increase has taken place in the population, and no doubt a 
corresponding increase in the number of chemists and druggists,—the number of 
persons includes in the Register may be considered to accord with what might 
be expected from an examination of the census returns. 
THE PHARMACY ACT AMENDMENT BILL. 
The Bill of Lord Robert Montagu, intended to remove certain supposed dis¬ 
abilities inflicted on medical practitioners who are not Licentiates of the Society 
of Apothecaries, and Veterinary Surgeons in Scotland, passed through its various 
stages in the House of Commons, and has been for some time waiting a secoud 
reading in the Upper House. It has probably been delayed by the great ques¬ 
tion in the Session, the Irish Church Bill, and now that the excitement on that 
matter is subsiding, may soon come on for further consideration. 
At the instance of Mr. Forster a clause was added to remedy the Assistants’ 
grievance; and on the motion of Dr. Brewer a special provision respecting 
medicines compounded from the prescriptions of legally-qualified medical prac¬ 
titioners. This latter appears to be surplusage, as the Act of 1868 specially 
provides that medicines compounded by duly registered Chemists and Druggists, 
whether prepared from physicians’ prescriptions or not, shall be considered 
duly labelled if sent out as Dr. Brewer now proposes. Some other trifling 
amendments may be made before the Bill becomes law. 
THE ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRUGS BILL. 
The second reading of the Bill to amend the Adulteration of Food or Drink 
Act (1860), which stood for the 10th of June, has been postponed to Wednes¬ 
day, the 7th of July. We are glad to find that pharmacists in different parts 
of the country are interesting themselves with reference to this Bill, and endea¬ 
vouring to get the term medical struck out from the specified qualifications for 
analysts , as we suggested in our last number. Those who are interested in the 
subject should communicate with their representatives in Parliament and urge 
them to insist on the proposed alteration when the Bill comes into Committee. 
REPRINT OF THE BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA. 
The twenty thousand copies of the Pharmacopoeia, which were printed in 
1867, having been nearly all sold, and a considerable demand for the work still 
continuing, it has been found necessary to reprint it. In doing this the few 
typographical errors and omissions, which had been discovered since the original 
publication, have been corrected. All the copies recently sold have had a list 
of these corrections inserted on a slip of paper, so that purchasers might make 
the necessary alterations with a pen in the body of the work. A copy of the 
list has also appeared in the medical journals, and we now insert it here, to 
enable those of our readers, who have not otherwise been afforded the means of 
doing so, to make the corrections in their copies of the work. 
