ANNUAL MEETING. 811 
tr.at, I really do not think there is any necessity for making any alteration in the 
system, which seems to me very complete in every respect. 
Mr. Pound : Will you allow me to suggest, that when the papers are issued, the 
numbers only should be crossed, and not the names. The lines are drawn so indis- 
inctiy across, that it is very difficult to decipher which name is intended to be erased, 
but it the numbers only were crossed, there could be no mistake. 
. Andrews : And I think it should be compulsory that they should be erased 
m ™ beveral were senfc in onl J erased in pencil, which is not sufficient, 
i i j Wellington : W ° ulcl tllere be any objection to this ? that to each name there 
s louid be attached sometliing to denote either that they were members of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, or Chemists and Druggists, or by examination. A great 1 many of 
us m the country see the names, and -we know no more about them than we do of 
tne man m the moon. For my own part, I should very seldom vote for a Chemist 
and Druggist, because, I think, the time has come, or will very shortly be here, when 
tiie so-called Modified Examination wfill be knocked on the head. I am too old to 
pass an examination myself, but I am very anxious that the younger ones should do 
so; and I think the time has come when, if our Society is to be of any use at all 
we must see qualified men, and no others, on the list. Therefore, I should cer- 
ain 5 propose, if the Council think it desirable, that between the figures and the 
names, or after the names, it should be stated whether the candidate is an examined 
member, whether lie is a member from old age, I may say, or whether he is only a 
Chemist and Druggist. I may be out of order in making the suggestion, but, I think 
it would guide a very great many as to their votes. 
The Chairman : It is done already. On the voting-paper which I hold in my hand 
there are the letters P. C. to all the Pharmaceutical Chemists, and there is nothin^ 
to those w ho are Chemists and Druggists. The letters P. C. occur between the number 
and the name of those who are Pharmaceutical Chemists, and there are no such ini¬ 
tials between the name and the number of those who are Chemists and Druggists. 
, ; Wellington : I should propose that where there has been an examination, it 
should be stated. 
Mi. Flux : Perhaps you will allow me to say, that there is no such thing as a 
Pharmaceutical Chemist by examination. It is not examination which makes a gen¬ 
tleman a Pharmaceutical Chemist; it is the fact of his name being on the Register of 
1 harmaceutical Chemists. In my own profession, I confess, we should receive witli 
astonishment any suggestion from the young and examined men (I am an examined 
man myself, and, therefore, can say it), that we should have a line drawn between us 
and those honoured seniors who have brought about the present state of things. But 
to come back to the point at which I started,—there is no such thing as a Pharma¬ 
ceutical Chemist by examination. It is by the Register, and nothing else. 
Mr. Fowler : If any one who takes an interest in the election of candidates will 
refer to the Register, that will be seen. 
Mr. Sandford : Gentlemen are perhaps not aware that by-and-by there will be no 
members of this Society except those who have been examined. The chemists and 
druggists who were in business prior to the passing of the Pharmacy Act are now ad¬ 
mitted to membership, but hereafter there will be no chemists and druggists members 
of this Society ; they will all be pharmaceutical chemists, and all will be examined. 
The Chairman of Scrutineers handed in to the President their report of the 
nominations for Local Secretaries. 
The Chairman : Gentlemen, that is the conclusion of our business, and I have to 
thank you for your attendance here to-day. 
Mr. Hills : I beg to move a vote of thanks to the Chairman. He has had a very 
arduous duty to perform ; and I am sure we are all of opinion that the best thanks of 
the meeting are due to the Chairman for the manner in which he has performed the 
duty. 
Mr. Carr : I beg to second that. 
The resolution was carried unanimously. 
The Chairman : I thank you, gentlemen, very much for your vote of thanks, and 
I assure you that I appreciate it most heartily. Never, perhaps, in the course of my 
life have duties more arduous or more painful fallen to my lot. 
