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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[November 2 , 1872. 
under which businesses are conducted. Resides, it 
seemed only fair to those who had gone to the expense 
and trouble of passing the Major examination that none 
but “ Major” men should be 'able to open a dispensing 
establishment. 
After the address a long and animated discussion took 
place. The points to which opposition was principally 
raised were a compulsory Major examination, and that 
part relating to the enforced passing of the Preliminary, 
Modified, or Minor examination by assistants at present 
in business before being qualified to dispense. The sug¬ 
gestion made that a candidate should be admitted to a 
shorter and different examination upon proving he had 
attended the classes of a school of pharmacy for a certain 
time, also met with disapproval. 
The officers of the association having returned thanks 
for their election, the meeting terminated. 
It is very gratifying to find that, with the exception 
of three, all the assistants and apprentices in Northamp¬ 
ton have joined the association. 
HULL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The fourth winter course of lectures, under the 
auspices of the above association, was inaugurated on 
Wednesday evening, the 16th ultimo, at the Society’s 
room at the Church Institute, Albion Street, by the 
Vice-President, Mr. Anthony Smith, who delivered the 
following address:— 
In the absence of the President of the Hull Chemists’ 
Association, the duty devolves upon me to open the fourth 
course of lectures on chemistry, materia medica, etc., 
which we have provided for you. It is a source of great 
gratification to myself and fellow-committeemen to be 
able to congratulate you on the very bright prospects 
the coming session presents. We have been fortunate, 
as you are aware, in securing the services of a gentleman 
as lecturer, who not only is possessed of great ability— 
as bis position on the list of the successful candidates at 
a recent Major examination of the Pharmaceutical So¬ 
ciety will show—but is enabled to impart to you a class of 
teaching which has the strong recommendation of being 
modern ; and as fashion, even in education, is varying, the 
more recently the lecturer has been before the Board of 
Examiners, before which ere long you are destined to 
appear, the better chance he has of successfully instruct- 
ing you. Ear be it from me to infer for a moment that 
the gentleman who has been kind enough to place his 
services at our disposal for the three past sessions lacked 
either the qualification or disposition to impart the class 
of instruction which it is our great anxiety you should 
receive; his urgent professional duties alone have induced 
us to look elsewhere for assistance, and my estimate of 
human nature is very inaccurate if you do not find in 
your teacher Mr. Parson an earnest tutor and a friend. 
The prospects of those who are serving their appren¬ 
ticeship, never since the business of chemist and druggist 
was established could present a more encouragin 0, 
future ; the number entering the trade will be reduced 
at such a ratio that the great competition of the present 
day that wo are now contending against will gradually 
decline, and you vail reap the benefit of the little extra 
compulsory studying to which you must necessarily give 
your attention. With the Pharmacy Act of 1868, in its 
entirety I do not agree, but of the educational part I am 
an . enthusiastic admirer j it will not only raise your 
social status, but will prevent a class of men elbowing 
their way into the trade and styling themselves chemists 
and druggists, who know nothing of chemistry and little 
of pharmacy, and who sometimes have amassed large 
fortunes, whilst their more legitimate opponent has 
probably died comparatively poor. Though the result I 
have referred to may not become very apparent during 
the next fifteen or twenty years, I doubt not, when mos” 
oi us now in business have passed from the commercial 
arena and you are in your business prime, it will have de¬ 
veloped itself. If you require something to stimulate you 
to devote attention to these lectures, which it is our earnest 
hope you will give to them, let the success in life which 
I have referred to as being in store for you be the great 
incentive. With the exception of a few other large towns- 
in the kingdom, apprentices have not the opportunity 
offered them of receiving the instruction we are enabled 
to provide for you, consequently I hope that you will 
not only be punctual in attendance, but most assiduous- 
in your studies ; and though there may be some amongst 
you to whom it is less easy to learn than to others, I will 
add, by way of encouragement to them, “ the race is not 
always to the swift, or the battle to the strong,” and in 
the friendly rivalry that will naturally be generated 
amongst you, I ask you all to take for your motto “ Labor 
omnia vincit,” or, like Julius Caesar, rise to the summit of 
your ambition by being actuated by the spirit he termed. 
“ Incredibilia industria.” Should any neglect to take 
advantage of the facilities offered by us, and then fail 
before a Board of Examiners, it will be useless their 
looking for sympathy, as their own negligence will have 
brought about their discomfiture, and they will occupy 
a situation similar to the man who, having murdered 
both his father and his mother, appealed to the court for 
mercy on the ground that he was an orphan. It 
is our intention as usual to offer Senior and Junior, 
prizes in both chemistry and materia medica, and the. 
earnest wish of the committee will be that the most 
deserving man may win, and that the unsuccessful will 
take courage from the thought that our hand has aided 
them in every struggle, and our heart sympathized in_ 
every care. 
Mr. Parson then addressed the students, intimating- 
his desire to be of use to them, and for them to look upon, 
him more as a friend than a teacher, and trusted that at 
the close of the session there would be but one feeling, that 
he had done his utmost to teach them and they to learn. 
Mr. C. B. Bell addressed to them a few words of en¬ 
couragement, and pointed out the necessity of regularity 
of attendance and attention to their teacher, and con¬ 
cluded by proposing a most cordial vote of thanks to Mr. 
Smith for delivering the inaugural address, which was 
seconded by Mr. Parson, and carried amidst applause. 
The Committee of the Hull Chemists’ Association have 
announced that a winter course of twenty-six lectures, 
comprising elementary chemistry, materia medica, phar¬ 
macy, etc., will be delivered by Mr. H. J. Parson, in 
the Society’s Room, at the Church Institute, Albion. 
Street, on Wednesday evening, October 16th, at 8.15 
precisely, and continued weekly at the same place and 
hour. Fee for the course, £1. Is., due in advance. In¬ 
tending students are requested to send in their names as 
early as convenient to the honorary secretary, Mr. C. B. 
Bell, who will furnish further information if required. 
The course of instruction will have special reference to- 
the requirements of the Minor examination of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, which it is now incumbent on all 
chemists and druggists to pass before commencing or- 
taking charge of a business. 
At the close of the session it is intended to offer four- 
prizes for competition, viz., senior and junior materia 
medica and pharmacy, and senior and junior chemistry. 
LEEDS CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The tenth annual meeting of the Leeds Chemists^ 
Association was held on October 22nd, when a company 
of 120 persons, composed chiefly of members, associates 
and other chemists and druggists partook of a substan¬ 
tial tea at the Trevelyan Hotel. After the tables had 
been cleared, the President, Mr. Edward Brown, took 
the chair, and called upon the Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. 
Yewdall, to read the Report of the Committee. The 
