March 1, 1873.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
691 
UjjarmaraM lounial. 
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1873. 
Communications for this Journal, and boohs for review,etc., 
should be addressed to the Editor, 17, Bloomsbury Square. 
Instructions from Members and Associates respecting the 
transmission of the Journal should be sent to Elias Brem- 
ridge, Secretary, 17, Bloomsbury Square, W.C. 
Advertisements to Messrs. Churchill, New Burlington 
Street, London, W. Envelopes indorsed u Bharm. Journ.” 
THE REGISTER OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS 
AND THE CALENDAR OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL 
SOCIETY. 
The publication of tlie Register of Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemists aud of Chemists and Druggists for 
1873,—which, as will be seen by the Registrar’s 
notice in our advertising columns, is now ready,— 
taken in conj miction with the recent issue of the 
Calendar of the Pharmaceutical Society, furnishes a 
favourable opportunity for laying before our readers 
some statistics partly drawn from them, and tending 
to throw light upon the effect the Pharmacy Act may 
possibly have in limiting or otherwise the number of 
persons entitled to carry on business as chemists and 
druggists. Another point, certainly of at least as 
much importance, which they will serve to illustrate, 
is the growing proportion of examined men that each 
year’s Register contains, as well as the nature of the 
examinations they pass ; and also, incidentally, the 
numerical relations of the Pharmaceutical Society 
to the whole body of chemists and druggists. 
The Register of Chemists and Druggists for 1873 
shows a gross total of 12,750 names; the first 
Register of the kind, published in 1809, a few months 
after the passing of the Pharmacy Act, 1808, con¬ 
tained 11,050. On the surface, therefore, it would 
appear that in four years there had been an increase 
of 1100 names. But among the rights reserved by 
the Pharmacy Act were those of the unexamined 
men, who were already engaged in the business as 
assistants, but who, not having kept open shop on 
their own account, were not entitled by the terms of 
the 5th section of the Act to be placed on the Re¬ 
gister ; for them it was provided that there should 
be a “modified” examination, the passing of which 
should entitle them to registration. About 2900 per¬ 
sons of this class, by sending in proper notices, took 
the necessary steps to secure this right, and of that 
number 1298 now appear upon the Register as 
“ Chemists and Druggists : Modified Examination.” 
Of these only 201 appeared upon the Register of 1869 > 
showing an increase in 1873 of 1097. If this num¬ 
ber 1097 be added to the 11,050 of the first Register, 
—as representing persons who were then virtually 
as much in the business as they are now,—it gives 
a total of 12,747, or very nearly the number on the 
Register for 1873. At any rate it will be better to 
adopt this number in estimating the proportion the 
examined men bear to the whole. 
In 1809 there were 2443 Pharmaceutical Chemists 
on the Register, being 19TO per cent, of the whole 
body of Registered Chemists and Druggists ; in 1873 
there are 2307 Pharmaceutical Chemists, or 18’5G per¬ 
cent. Of these 1030, or 8T3 per cent, of the whole 
number on the 1809 Register, were Pharmaceutical 
Chemists, by virtue of having passed the “Major” 
examination, and 1138, or 8’93 per cent, on that for 
1873. Of men who had passed the “Minor” exa¬ 
mination,—the examination which is now required 
before registration—there were 402 in 1809, or 3"02 
per cent.; in 1873 this number has increased to 1003, 
or 7’87 per cent. The result may be thus tabu¬ 
lated :— 
1869. 
1873. 
j Number 
Per cent. 
Number 
Per cent. 
Pharmaceutical 
Chemists :— 
Non-examined 
Examined . . 
11*03) , Q ., r 
8*13j 19 16 
iK} 2367 
I ll} 
Passed the Mi- 
nor .... 
462 
3-62 
1003 
7*87 
Remainder, in- 
eluding 1097 
“ Modified ” 
not on the Re¬ 
gister in I 869 . 
9845 
77*12 
9,363 
73*57 
Total .... 
12,750 
100*00 
12,733 
100*00 
In thus distinguishing between examined and non- 
examined men there is no intention to draw in¬ 
vidious inferences, but simply to place on record the 
facts by which in future years it will be most easy 
to ascertain the relative position of the trade. 
If we take the list of Members and Associates of 
the Pharmaceutical Society, issued in 1859, ten years 
before the issue of the first Register and seven years, 
after the passing of the first Pharmacy Act, the 
number of members (Pharmaceutical Chemists) con¬ 
tained in it was 2079, of whom only 47 -were exa¬ 
mined men. The Associates numbered 310. In 
1808 the number of Members was 2022, of whom 
GOO had passed the examination. If to these be 
added the Associates, numbering 413, a gross total 
is arrived at of 2435, and upon comparing this 
with the total number contained in the first Re¬ 
gister, it will be seen that about 20 per cent, of the 
whole trade were connected with the Society at the 
passing of the Pharmacy Act 1808. In 1872 the 
number of Pharmaceutical Chemist members was 
2002, of whom 785 were examined, and of Chemist 
and Druggist members (a new class created by the 
Act of 1808) 009; giving a total of 2731. Add to- 
these 940 Associates, and the total of registered 
Chemists and Druggists connected with the Society 
in that year amounts to 3071. In 1873, the Phar¬ 
maceutical Chemist members are 2027, of whom 
790 have passed the “ Major;” Chemist and Drug- 
