THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL. 
SECOND SERIES. 
YOL. XI.—No. X.—APRIL, 1870. 
THE REGISTERS OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS, AND 
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS, AND THE CALENDAR OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
Had any of the zealous promoters of the measures which were initiated in 
1841, for the purpose of advancing chemistry and pharmacy, of establishing a 
uniform system of pharmaceutical education, and protecting the interests of 
chemists and druggists, ventured to predict that within thirty years from that 
time there would be published two such works as those now before us, it would 
have been received as an indication of the influence which imagination may 
exert over sober judgment. In fact, these books are the best possible evidence 
of the realization of all, and more than all, that was ever predicted by the most 
enthusiastic of the’pioneers in the cause of pharmaceutical regeneration. 
The book of registers is, of course, mainly, a mere collection of names and 
addresses, accompanied, however, by copies of the Act of Parliament under the 
authority of which the ‘ Registers ’ have been prepared, and of other Acts to¬ 
gether with the Charter of Incorporation by which the Pharmaceutical Society 
has been established and vested with parliamentary authority. It is the second 
publication of the sort that has appeared, and, compared with its predecessor of 
last year, it is found to consist of 25 more pages, and to contain about 1109 
new names. Nearly 100 names that were inserted in the previous registers 
have, however, been removed, so that the increase in the number of names is 
about 1000. Much of this increase has been caused by the registration of those 
who have passed the Modified examination, amounting to 716. 
There are, as required by the Act of Parliament, two registers, one of phar¬ 
maceutical chemists, and the other of chemists and druggists, this latter list in¬ 
cluding all those whose names appear in the former, together with others who 
are not entitled to the higher designation. The general register now contains 
more than 12,500 names of persons who are legally entitled to assume the name 
of “ chemist and druggist,” and to sell or dispense poisons. Many of those 
■whose names are on the ‘ Register,’ however, are not established in business on 
their own account, and some of them probably are not at the present time en¬ 
gaged in the practice of pharmacy in any capacity. 
In looking over the names and addresses, some of the latter appear to us very 
incomplete and insufficient for any practical purpose. For instance, Alfred 
Smith, London, or John Smith, Liverpool, seem very imperfect addresses, yet 
these occur, with many others of a similar description, in the list. The fault 
in these cases is undoubtedly not that of the ‘ Registrar,’ but of the registered. 
In some cases it is probably unavoidable, as the parties may not have had any 
fixed residence at the time of registering, but it is very desirable to make the 
addresses available for reference to the individuals, whenever this can be done. 
The ‘ Register ’ is probably, to some extent, incomplete also, from its having 
dead men’s names in it, and addresses that are no longer those of the individuals 
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