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EXTRACT FROM THE * LONDON GAZETTE.’ 
Many of the improvements in the second edition of the ‘British Pharmaco¬ 
poeia’ are in some measure the result of comparing notes and discussing the 
question at these very evening meetings, and why not again the instrument of 
pharmaceutical progress,—though some have grown lukewarm, and others be¬ 
come imbued with a peripatetic spirit,—is that a reason that there should be any 
scarcity of workers where there is so wide a field for operations ? 
Some, perhaps, may feel aggrieved if their crotchets or pet ideas do not meet 
with that approval which they had fondly hoped, but this will not be the case with 
the true seeker after knowledge, it will only make him work the more, “ Cou- 
tredire c’est quelquefois frapper a une porte, pour savoir s’il y a quelqu’un dans 
la maison.” 
In this matter we all stand upon the same footing; the youngest and the oldest 
may exchange and parry thrusts, the pupil and the professor give and take, 
the employer and the employed compare results, even the stern and much dreaded 
examiner may be challenged by the unassuming examinee. 
What more can I write as an inducement to accept the invitation ? the lecture 
hall has been redecorated and made worthy of your presence. I cannot add— 
would that I could!—that the ladies will be there to listen to and applaud you, 
but they will hear of your efforts, and tacitly at least smile their approval. Re¬ 
member, the opportunities during the Session will be few,—probably only five; 
remember, also, if the young come forward, those who have worked long in the 
service will obtain some respite, and the world of pharmacy will cry shame upon 
the young if they suffer those still to keep watch and fill the post of the able- 
bodied, who should, by right of age and former labours, rest upon their oars and 
glide gently down the stream, occasionally steering the good ship into still 
waters. 
EXTRACT FROM THE ‘LONDON GAZETTE’ 
Of Tuesday , December 21, 1869. 
The Pharmacy Act, 1868.— Poisons. 
Whereas by section 2 of the “ Fharmacy Act, 1868,” it is enacted that the 
Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain may from time to time, 
by resolution, declare that any article in such resolution named ought to be 
deemed a poison within the meaning of that Act, and thereupon the said So¬ 
ciety shall submit the same for the approval of the Privy Council; and that, if 
such approval shall be given, then such resolution and approval shall be ad¬ 
vertised in the ‘ London Gazette and that, on the expiration of one month 
from such advertisement, the article named in such resolution shall be deemed 
to be a poison within the meaning of the said Act: 
Notice is hereby given, that the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Great Britain did, on the 1st day of December, 1869, resolve and declare, in 
the words following: 
By virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in the Council of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society of Great Britain, the said Council do hereby resolve and declare 
that each of the following articles ; viz. :— 
Preparations of prussic acid, 
Preparations of cyanide of potassium and of all metallic cyanides, 
Preparations of strychnine, 
Preparations of atropine, 
Preparations of corrosive sublimate, 
Preparations of morphine, 
Red oxide of mercury (commonly known as red precipitate of mercury), 
