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TEE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[July 6, 1372*. 
for the better custody of Students’ coats, etc.; and that 
estimates be obtained for certain repairs, repainting, 
etc. 
Provincial Education Committee. 
The Report of this Committee was read, recom¬ 
mending that the following document, drawn up by Mr. 
Schacht, be in principle adopted by the Council:— 
Principles. 
1st.—It is desirable that scientific pharmaceutical edu¬ 
cation throughout the country be promoted by. the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and be assisted 
by its funds. 
2nd.—It is desirable that such assistance be given to 
those efforts only that are directed to the systematic and 
persistent teaching of the sciences connected with phar¬ 
macy. 
3rd.—It is desirable that such assistance be distri¬ 
buted upon a method as far as possible just and uni¬ 
versal. 
Scheme. 
The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 
Britain shall announce that they are prepared to propose 
an annual vote of money for the purpose of assisting 
scientific pharmaceutical education throughout the coun¬ 
try upon conditions to be enumerated below. 
The plan upon which this assistance will be given will 
consist, essentially, in affording a limited and partial aid 
or stimulus towards founding and maintaining local 
pharmaceutical educational associations. 
The sciences towards instruction in which aid will be 
given are chemistry, botany and materia medica. 
The '’processes through which this aid will be given 
are:— 
1st.—Examinations to be held at all places whose local 
pharmaceutical associations have applied for aid, 
and which have fulfilled the requisite conditions. 
2nd.—Payments of money to the local pharmaceutical 
associations on the result of these examinations and 
donations of prizes to the competing candidates. 
3rd.—Grants towards the fitting up and illustration of 
the libraries, museums and laboratories of local 
pharmaceutical associations, or for any portions of 
their schemes which have a scientific educational 
object. 
General Details .* 
Every local pharmaceutical Association claiming aid 
from the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain must 
have been enrolled p.s “an association in connection” 
with it at least three months before the date of the 
annual examination. 
The conditions of enrolment shall be that it be a bond 
fide association of chemists and druggists, acknowledging 
a fixed set of rules and a money subscription for mem¬ 
bership ; that it possess a responsible committee of 
chemists and druggists whose names are on the register, 
a chairman and a secretary; that it includes in its 
scheme courses of lectures by competent teachers upon 
chemistry or botany, for the use of its members and asso¬ 
ciates, of not less than twenty-five lectures, on different 
days, of one hour’s length ; and that it is prepared to 
carry out in its integrity the educational system of the 
Pharmaceutical Society. 
The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain will hold 
annually, about May, through the agency of the enrolled 
associations, examinations in chemistry and botany in 
any place in England, Wales, and Scotland, from which 
a proper application has been received. On the results 
of these examinations payments will be made to the 
enrolled associations, and prizes will be awarded to the 
students themselves. 
There will be two grades of success, the first and the 
* These details are to be understood as incomplete. 
second. All candidates who succeed in passing in the- 
second or lowest class will earn for the association with 
which they are connected £ 1 each; all who pass in the- 
first class, £2 each. All who pass in the first class will 
also earn for themselves a prize. 
Persons eligible to earn prizes and payments for re¬ 
sults will be chemists and druggists, their apprentices, 
pupils and assistants, with the exception of such as have 
passed the Major or Minor examination of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society of Great Britain. 
Students presenting themselves for examination in the 
same subject a second or third year will still be consi¬ 
dered as entitled to earn payments for results; but if' 
they have already earned one payment, subsequent pay¬ 
ments earned in the same subject will be one-half the 
original amount, and will not be repeated beyond the 
third payment; nevertheless students may present them¬ 
selves for examination in any subject as many times as- 
they please. 
Payments for results and prizes will only be awarded. 
where the evidence is sufficient to show, on the one 
hand, that good systematic teaching has been supplied, 
and, on the other, that the candidate has been a diligent 
student. It will be necessary, therefore, in the first case, 
that the local associations arc careful to provide really 
efficient teachers, and that a proper daily record be kept 
of the pupils’ attendances at each lecture. Forms for 
these purposes ( ) will be supplied, which must be- 
returned when application is made for examination 
papers. It will be imperative that at least twenty lec*» 
tures shall have been attended by each candidate. 
Examinations. 
When an enrolled association wishes to participate in. 
the aid granted by the Pharmaceutical Society, an appli¬ 
cation, stating on what subject or subjects examination- 
will be required, and giving the precise number of candi¬ 
dates to be examined in each subject, must be made by 
the secretary of the enrolled association on a printed 
form ( ) and sent to the Secretary of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society days before that fixed for the- 
examination. 
The local association will then provide a proper room 
with the requisite accommodation for carrying out the 
detailed instructions which will be sent them ( ), and 
a committee, consisting of the secretary and one other 
responsible chemist and druggist, not personally inter¬ 
ested in the result (but not the teacher), must attend in- 
the room throughout the examination to see that perfect 
fairness prevails, and that the printed details are abso¬ 
lutely complied with. 
On the morning of the day appointed for the examina¬ 
tion a packet containing the lists of questions, one for 
each student, will be received by post by the secretary of. 
the local association, which packet must be opened for 
the first time when all are assembled in the examination- 
room and the candidates are in their places. The an¬ 
swers will be collected, enclosed in one wrapper, sealed. 
and forwarded by post to the Secretary of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society. 
Instructions for the exact guidance of the committees- 
and candidates during examination will be forwarded at 
the proper times. 
The examination on either subject will be conducted, 
in every locality throughout the country on the same day 
and at the same hour. 
The answers will be examined, and their values esti¬ 
mated, as speedily as possible, and the list of successful 
candidates will be published in the Pharmaceutical 
J ournal, no mention being made of those who do not 
succeed in passing. 
The claim for payments must be made on a printed 
form ( ) to be supplied on application. It must be 
signed by the chairman and secretary of the local asso¬ 
ciation, and forwarded to the Secretary of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society within one month of the time of pub- 
