July G, 1872.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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lishing the examination-lists; and if found to be correct, 
the money will be forwarded to the secretary of the local 
association. 
Prizes. 
The prizes for those candidates who pass in the first 
class will consist of books. Candidates will be at liberty 
to select their own prizes from a list published in the 
Pharmaceutical Journal. 
In addition to these, there will be three medals distri¬ 
buted annually in each subject,—one gold, one silver, 
and one bronze,—to those whose papers stand respec¬ 
tively first, second and third in order of merit through¬ 
out the country, provided the examiners consider them 
sufficiently excellent to justify such a recognition. 
Examiners. 
The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 
Britain shall appoint a professional chemist and proies- 
sional botanist to conduct the examinations in their re¬ 
spective sciences. They will be in no way engaged in 
teaching any class of pharmaceutical students nor be 
personally interested in the result of the examination. 
It will be the duty of the examiner to frame a list of 
questions, to each of which he will attach a certain nu¬ 
merical value, and he will do his best to keep the ques¬ 
tions he has selected a perfect secret. 
When the answers are returned to him he will esti¬ 
mate their values also in figures, and those candidates 
who have earned an aggregate number of marks equal 
to 80 per cent, of the highest possible number will be 
placed in the first class, and those whose marks are less 
than 80 per cent., but equal to 50 per cent., will be 
placed in the second class. The rest will be considered 
to have failed. 
The examiners will report to the Council the general 
character of the replies, and will present the names of 
the successful candidates with the number of marks they 
have respectively earned. 
The fees for the professional services of the examiners 
will be paid by the Council of the Pharmaceutical So- 
ciety of Great Britain. 
Grants for Museums, etc. 
The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society shall have 
the power to award a grant of money, to the extent of 
one-half the required expenditure, to any enrolled asso¬ 
ciation in aid of any portion of their scheme which shall 
have a distinct scientific educational object. For this 
purpose every application will be judged of on its own 
merits. 
Mr. Schacht having read the above, to the end of the 
“ Scheme,” said that the details which he had appended 
were not to be considered as complete, and it was the 
opinion of the Committee that if the general principles 
were adopted by the Council, they should be referred 
back to the Committee for further consideration and 
completion. It was also hoped that by the publication 
of the paper he had prepared, the suggestions of mem¬ 
bers throughout the country might be available for the 
Committee. He moved— 
“ That the Report bo received and adopted ; that this 
Council approves generally the principles and 
scheme presented, and refers the same back to the 
Provincial Education Committee for further con¬ 
sideration and report.” 
Mr. Stoddart said he could heartily commend the 
principle of the scheme, particularly as it did not coun¬ 
tenance the idea which was far too prevalent, that young 
men should be coaxed into study and improvement. The 
real principle was to afford every facility possible to those 
who really wished to improve themselves, and therefore, 
the scheme now brought forward was admirable, if it 
was considered to go far enough. 
Mr. Hills thought the only fault in the scheme was 
that it was not liberal enough. He did not think thejr 
should require from every town a complete account of all 
the results that had been accomplished, and that if a 
certain number of men known to the Council would 
guarantee that the funds should be applied to the object 
of Pharmaceutical Education, that was all that was 
required. Referring to his own experience, he had 
gained more information from a small class to which 
he belonged than from any other source. If any 
amount were raised in any locality for the purpose of 
education, he thought it should bo augmented by the 
Society to a certain extent, either by one-half or one- 
third of the amount locally raised. He hoped, there¬ 
fore, that when the Committee reconsidered the details, 
they would be rather more liberal. 
Mr. Baynes heartily endorsed the scheme in its 
general principle, but suggested that a small capitation 
fee should be given to associations for students who had 
attended the classes a certain number of times. 
Mr. Brown remarked that the last sentence of the 
scheme left it open to the Council to make a grant to 
any association, however small. He thought the system 
of payment for results would get over the difficulty,, 
which always met them, that the money of the Society 
might be bestowed on persons who never contributed 
anything to its funds. 
Mr. Mackay also approved of the scheme, though he 
doubted the propriety of employing lecturers. 
The resolution was then carried unanimously. 
Parliamentary Committee. 
The Report of the Parliamentary Committee was read,, 
stating that they had considered the correspondence with 
reference to the registration of certain persons as chemists 
and druggists, and recommended the Council to give- 
the Registrar the necessary authority to remove their 
names from the Register. The details of several cases 
were given, in one of which the Solicitor having, 
written to the party concerned, and received no reply,, 
it was recommended that proceedings be at once taken 
against him for selling poisons, etc., he not being re¬ 
gistered as a chemist and druggist. In another case the 
excuse made was that the party was a homoeopathic- 
chemist, and it was recoihmended that evidence be ob¬ 
tained of his having sold poisons. The Committee also- 
recommended the immediate readjustment of the schedule- 
of poisons with regard to Vermin Killers, and that the 
first convenient opportunity be taken for obtaining the- 
sanction of the Privy Council thereto. 
Mr. Williams regretted that the Committee had not 
seen their way to recommend proceedings being taken 
against a surgeon whose false and improper representa¬ 
tions had led to the registration of one of the parties now 
about to be removed. 
Mr. Betty thought the nature of the readjustments' 
of schedules should be mentioned. 
The President said that was not stated in the Report 
of the Committee. 
Mr. Williams suggested that the last clause of the 
resolution respecting Vermin Killers should be omitted.- 
This was a very important matter, and the practical re¬ 
sult of altering the schedules and putting strychnine in 
part one, would be to prohibit the sale of Vermin Killers 
containing such compounds by booksellers, stationers, 
and other persons not on the Register. This would have 
the further effect, that Vermin Killers containing those 
substances would fall into disuse, and only those would 
be sold containing phosphorus or other poisons. This 
was a very serious thing effecting the trade and com¬ 
merce of the whole country, and he hoped it would not 
be done without consideration. 
Mr. Schacht said if the Committee had come to a 
distinct conclusion, it ought to have been included in the- 
report; and as they had not done so, it must go back to- 
them again. 
Mr. Brown said at the last meeting the Council had. 
