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Dr. Schlosser thought that the ideal freedom claimed by Messrs. Reimann 
and Wolfrum in regard to pharmaceutical learning would not practically ad¬ 
vance the interests of pharmacy. What he desired was the creation of in¬ 
dependent pharmaceutical schools with pharmaceutists as professors, the 
schools being attached to the Universities. 
After some further discussion, a resolution was passed to the following 
effect:— 
“ That higher pharmaceutical schools, as an independent part of the Universities, with 
pharmaceutists as professors in the classes relating exclusively to pharmacy, would be 
of the greatest advantage to the interests of the public and also of the pharmaceutical 
profession.” 
This concluded the proceedings of the general meeting on Thursday morn¬ 
ing. In the afternoon of that day the Committees met and prepared their 
reports to be presented to the meeting on the following day. 
Friday, 10th of September.—The business was commenced by reading the 
minutes of the previous day’s proceedings. 
Dr. Schlosser reported the result of the deliberations of the Committee 
on the second question, namely, “What advantages will arise from the syndic 
chambers proposed at the Paris Congress ?” 
The Committee were unanimously in favour of establishing these syndic 
chambers as representatives and mediums of communication between the 
pharmaceutical bodies and the Government. They might be formed of dele¬ 
gates from pharmaceutical corporations within certain districts. Their duties 
would consist in representing the profession to the supreme authorities, in¬ 
forming such authorities of the requirements of the profession, originating 
new laws affecting the profession, and acting as the executive body in carry¬ 
ing existing laws into effect. 
Dr. Schlosser remarked that a somewhat similar institution had long 
existed in Austria. 
Mr. H. Sugden Evans said the functions of the proposed syndic chambers 
appeared to him to be similar to those of the Society he had the honour to 
represent and preside over, namely, the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 
Britain. It might, therefore, be interesting and useful to the Congress if he 
briefly stated the powers and constitution of that Society. He then ex¬ 
plained the position of the Society as custodian of the registers of legally 
qualified Chemists and Druggists of different grades, and as the executive 
body intrusted by the Government with the responsible duty of testing the 
qualifications of those whose names are entered in the Registers, and of 
otherwise carrying into effect the laws by which the practice of pharmacy is 
regulated in Great Britain. He described the constitution of the Society, 
and pointed out the importance of the position it occupied, referring espe¬ 
cially to the beneficial influence it was enabled from its position to exert in 
raising the status of the pharmaceutical body. He alluded also to the cir¬ 
cumstance that, in accordance with the free-trade opinions which prevailed in 
England, there were no restrictions placed upon the manner in which the 
required qualifications of those who were registered were obtained, nor upon 
the exercise of their profession by those who were legally recognized as qua¬ 
lified men. 
Mr. Mosca, of Turin, gave some explanations with reference to the state 
of pharmacy in Italy, and advocated the creation of syndic chambers. 
The question was then put, and the delegates voted unanimously for the 
creation of syndic chambers. 
Dr. Reimann reported that the Committee to whom was referred the third 
question, “ Is the medical supremacy in the regulation of affairs between the 
