254 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, October 6th, 1869, 
MR. H. SUGDEN EVANS, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
Present—Messrs. Abraham, Bottle, Bourdas, Brady, Carteighe, Deane, Dymond, 
Edwards, Haselden, Hills, lace, Morson, Orridge, Sandford, Savage, Squire, Stoddart, 
and Williams. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
The report of the Finance and House Committee was presented, showing a balance 
in the Treasurer’s hands of £988. 12s. Id. on account of the General Fund, and on 
account of the Benevolent Fund a balance of £488. 3s. 4c/., and submitting for payment, 
accounts, and various items amounting to £1281. 11s. 2d. 
Resolved—That the report be received and adopted, and payments made. 
It was moved by Mr. Sandford, seconded by Mr. Deane, and 
Resolved—That the thanks of the Council be given to the President and Professor 
Redwood for their attendance at the International Pharmaceutical Congress at 
Vienna, and that their report be entered on the minutes. 
Report, 
“ To the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
“We have the honour to report that in conformity with the resolution passed at your 
last meeting in September, we immediately proceeded to Vienna, arriving there in 
the forenoon of Wednesday, the 8th of September. On the same evening we were most 
cordially received by the officials and other delegates of the International Pharmaceutical 
Congress, as the first representatives accredited to that body from the Pharmaceutical 
Society of Great Britain, at a soiree convened for the purpose of interchange of greetings 
between delegates and Viennese Pharmaciens. 
“ For an account of the proceedings of the Congress, we refer to the detailed re¬ 
port in this month’s issue of the ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal.’ As there indicated, the 
questions discussed did not specially affect the immediate interests of British Pharmacy, 
though of great political importance to the status of Pharmacy on the continent of 
Europe. In so far as the questions expressed the desire of Europe to obtain similar 
legislative recognition and political freedom to that which pharmaceutists in this country 
enjoy, the discussions presented an interest in which it was most gratifying to sympa¬ 
thize, and to be able to give the assurance of the hearty co-operation of British Pharmacy 
in encouraging the establishment of independent pharmaceutical schools and the erection 
of syndical chambers as proposed at the Paris Congress. In regard to the former your de¬ 
legates were able to instance the experience and success achieved during the past quarter 
of a century in our own school; and in reference to the latter we could illustrate the 
operations of the Pharmaceutical Society as the immediately recoguized organization 
through which all legislation in regard to Pharmacy takes action ; these being in effect 
the functions sought for the syndical chambers. 
“ We feel our mission has been of service in removing from the minds of many the 
impression that British Pharmacy is indifferent to the welfare and advancement of 
Pharmacy in other countries, caused by the conspicuous absence from the Brunswick 
and Paris Congresses of any delegate from England. Opportunities were also afforded, 
both publicly and in private, of explaining the precise position of our Society towards 
the pharmaceutists of Great Britain and the functions it performs in the State, as well 
also as the nature of our educational establishment and the character of our examina¬ 
tions, with regard to which subjects we found a strange misunderstanding prevailed. 
“ These congressional reunions, by bringing into close social intercourse men of like 
