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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[January 11, 1813. 
New Bye Law. 
It was then moved by the Vice-President, 
“ That the following bemadded to the Bye Laws, Sec. 20, 
as Clause No. 4 : ‘ No resolution of the Society by 
which the legal position of the members of the 
Society or the legal position of chemists and drug¬ 
gists, whether members ot the Society or not, may 
be altered, shall be passed at any meeting, unless 
fourteen days previous notice of the intention to in¬ 
troduce such resolution has been given.” 
Mr. Hampson seconded the motion. 
. Mr - Williams suggested that according to the word¬ 
ing of the resolution, such a resolution as was referred 
to might be introduced and discussed the whole day, 
though it could not be passed, and suggested a slight 
verbal alteration in it to meet this difficulty. 
The Vice-President said the matter had been re- 
fened to the solicitor, who had prepared three alterna¬ 
tive forms of bye-law, of which he had chosen the one 
which seemed on the whole most suitable. With regard 
to the objection made by Mr. Williams, he did not think 
any chairman would allow a matter to be discussed when 
it was not competent. for the meeting to come to a 
decision upon it. A distinct pledge was given at the 
last annual meeting that such a bye-law should be passed 
before the next meeting; and in order to this being 
done, it w as necessary to take action at once, as the new 
bye-law must be passed at two succeeding Council meet- 
ings, and a special meeting, as well as submitted to the 
Privy Council. 
Mr. Bottle expressed his approval of the new bye¬ 
law. J 
Mr. Williams had much pleasure in supporting the 
resolution, and only regretted that some further altera¬ 
tions in the bye-laws were not made at the same time, 
since it would save trouble and be better in every way 
if they went to the Privy Council with several altera¬ 
tions at once. He might take credit to himself for 
having called attention in the first place to the fact that 
under. the present bye-laws a resolution of a most 
obnoxious character might be brought forward and 
passed without any previous notice having been given. 
The President having expressed his approval of the 
proposed bye-law, the motion was put and carried 
unanimously. 
Provincial Education Committee. 
The report of this Committee was read. It stated that 
the. Committee had further considered the schemes 
which had been suggested for promoting provincial edu¬ 
cation ; that the Committee were early impressed with 
the conviction that, for the successful carrying out of any 
scheme for promoting provincial pharmaceutical educa¬ 
tion the general co-operation of pharmacists throughout 
the country was necessary, and they accordingly sug¬ 
gested that the Council, in publishing a proposition ad¬ 
vanced by one of their own members, should invite the 
fullest expression of opinion on the matter. This 
had resulted in a manifestation of so much variety of 
opinion, that the Committee did not feel able to recom¬ 
mend the adoption of any particular scheme ; they, how¬ 
ever, recorded their opinion, that any project of this 
nature should include not only a provision for aiding 
isolated local efforts, but also a plan by which these 
could be united in some common ground of mutual 
interest and mutual rivalry. 
Mr. Schacht said he should be sorry if it were con¬ 
sidered that the whole matter was at a standstill because 
the Committee did not feel able to move much further at 
present. The report truly stated that the variety of 
opinions elicited had been rather confusing; but for 
the successful carrying out of any plan something like 
a cordial co-operation throughout the whole country was 
necessary, which at the present moment was scarcely 
to be expected. He hoped, however, that one step had 
■ been gained, and that they had arrived at this stage, 
that any scheme pretending to satisfaction must include 
some plan for the display of its results upon a larger arena 
than could be obtained in isolated provincial schools. It 
was thought that the present method of aiding indi¬ 
vidual effort throughout the country had this great 
disadvantage, that both the students and their instruc¬ 
tors had not much space in which to distinguish them¬ 
selves ; therefore any scheme, aiming to do good service 
and to promote really scientific education, should have 
as an essential feature of its operation, some method 
of gathering together all these results at the close of the 
year, so that those who had exerted themselves succes- 
fully might meet with recognition at the hands of the 
pharmaceutical world. He would add that he was by 
no means discouraged or disappointed at the present 
result, for he did not expect that any scheme would be 
universally adopted without a great deal of discussion 
and consideration, and he was quite satisfied that an 
important step was gained if the principle were fully 
recognized which was stated in the report of the Com¬ 
mittee, and which he had endeavoured fully to illus¬ 
trate. 
The report and recommendations of the Committee 
were received and adopted. 
Report op Examinations. 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
JDccsmier, 1872. 
Candidates. 
Examinations. 
Examined. 
Passed. 
Failed. 
Major . . . 
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5 
Minor . . . 
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31 
20 
63 
38 
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Certificates received in lieu of the Preliminary Exa¬ 
mination:— 
University of Oxford.2 
Investments of the Society. 
Mr. Urwick moved, in accordance with notice :— 
“That £10,000 of the Funds of the Pharmaceutical 
Society be invested in Freehold Land or Freehold 
Ground Rents, and that the Secretary be instructed 
to look out for such investment, subject to the ap¬ 
proval of the President and Treasurer of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society.” 
He said it was unnecessary to speak at any length 
upon this topic; the Solicitor had advised that such a 
mode of investment would be perfectly legal, and as it 
would increase their income by at least 1 per cent., he 
hoped.it would be agreed to. It had been said that the 
Council generally ought to attend to this matter, but he 
had such confidence in the President and Treasurer that 
he thought they would be quite competent to act as was 
suggested. He would only add that he did not mean 
that the whole £10,000 was to be invested in a lump 
sum on one security, because it might happen that it 
could be laid out to greater advantage in separate 
amounts. If the principle were adopted he had no 
doubt, at some future time, it would be extended to the 
Benevolent Fund as well as to the General Fund of the 
Society. 
Mr. Baynes seconded the motion, and said he re¬ 
gretted that there was no report from the Finance Com¬ 
mittee on this subject, referred to them some time ago. 
Large life assurance companies were in the habit of 
getting 4£ to 4^ per cent, for their money, and he 
thought the Council ought to do something of the same 
kind, and to endeavour to make the best use of the spare 
funds they had in hand. They had nearly £30,000 at 
command, and 1 per <jent. increase on equally good se¬ 
curity was an important matter. 
Mr. Shaw supported the resolution, and hoped it would 
