May 17, 1873.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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$harm<ic£utical Journal 
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SATURDAY, MAY 17 , 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 “Pharm. Jowrn.” 
THE BYE-LAWS OF THE SOCIETY. 
On the occasion of the Anniversary M eeting next 
Wednesday, it will devolve upon the me mbers of 
the Society who attend the Special General M eeting 
called for that day, to confirm the alterations of and 
additions to the Bye-laws which have for some months 
past been under consideration by the Cou ncil. The 
official notice which appeared last week as an adver¬ 
tisement sufficiently sets forth the particular nature 
of the alterations and additions to be submitted to 
the Special General Meeting, for the purposes con¬ 
templated by the Society’s Charter of Incorporation 
as well as the Pharmacy Acts, 1852 and 1868. It 
may be as well, however, to recapitulate here more 
concisely what are the effects of the changes that 
have been made. 
The first alteration is in clause 10 of section 1, and 
relates to the conditions under which forfeited status 
in the Society may be at any time restored by the 
Council; the payment of the current year’s subscrip¬ 
tion, and of a sum ranging from the half of one year’s 
subscription, up to five guineas being substituted in 
place of payment of all arrears, and a fine not ex¬ 
ceeding half a guinea. 
The second alteration is in clause 3 of section 3 and 
consists simply in the substitution of a permissive foi 
a prohibitory form of stating how the Common Seal of 
the Society is to be used. 
In section 4 the term “Regulation” is now coupled 
with the term “Bye-law” in regard to the “making, 
altering, and abrogating” provided for by this section, 
which is also declared to be applicable to regula¬ 
tions to be prescribed by the Society, in accordance 
with any statute. In clause 1 of this section there is 
little alteration beyond the insertion of the word 
‘regulation” in two places. 
The alteration of section 9 by introducing the 
words “or oftener” empowers the Library, Museum, 
and Laboratory Committee to meet more than once 
in every month, as may be requisite. _ 
It is in section 10, relating to examiners, examina¬ 
tions and fees, that the chief and probably the most 
important alterations have been made. In clause 1 
of this section the plural number is substituted for 
the singular, since there is now more than one Board 
of Examiners ; and while this clause also provides 
for the continuance of these respective Boards in 
office until the end of the present year, clause 2 pro¬ 
vides that, instead of appointing examiners at the 
first ordinary Council meeting after the general meet¬ 
ing, the Council shall appoint examiners at its first 
meeting in December next, and every subsequent 
December, and that the persons so appointed shall, 
for the year to commence on the then following first 
day of January, constitute the Board of Examiners 
for England and Wales. By this alteration the new 
Council, from year to year, will have an opportunity 
of judging as to the fitness and efficiency of the exa¬ 
mining Board before being called upon to appoint its 
members. 
In clause 3 of this section the election in like 
manner of Examiners for Scotland, is provided for by 
alterations of the same nature as those applying to 
the appointment of Examiners for England and 
Wales. 
The alteration in clause 4 provides for the meet¬ 
ings of the Boards of Examiners being presided over 
by either the President or the Vice-President of the 
Society, when they happen to be present, rather than 
by both. 
The alteration of clause 5 consists simply in can¬ 
celling the exceptions to the limitations by age of 
elegibility for the office of Examiner, and consequently 
no person of the age of 65 can be made an Examiner. 
By the alteration of clause 6, the time which must 
elapse between the appointment of any person as an 
Examiner and his ceasing to hold office as a Member 
of Council is now reduced from one year to six 
months, but in other respects the exceptions in this 
clause in favour of the President and Vice-President 
remain the same. 
The only alteration in clause 7 is the substitution 
of the number fourteen for twelve as the maximum 
for the Board of Examiners for England and Wales. 
Tn rlnnsps ft, Q, in, onrl 11, tVlADP oto -nr. ALc,t> 0 oc., onrl 
in clause 12, relating to the examination of persons 
desiring certificates of competent skill and qualifica¬ 
tion to be engaged or employed as assistants, as well 
as to the examination of persons desiring certificates 
of like qualification to exercise the business or calling 
of pharmaceutical chemists, the only alteration is the 
introduction of authority for the acceptance, in the 
Minor examination, of certificates of having been pre¬ 
viously examined in the First examination, and foi 
the acceptance, in the Major examination, of similar 
certificates of having been previously examined m 
the Minor examination. . 
The clauses 13, 14, 15-17, 18, and 19, of this 
section are unchanged, but an nnportant alteration 
has been made in clause 16 by adding to it the pro¬ 
vision that:— 
“ After the 31st day of December, 1874, no person slial 
be admitted to the Major or the Minor Examination who 
shall not have attained the full age of twentyone years; 
1 tn e 31st day of December, 1876, no person shall 
be^Uowed to pass tie Major or the Minor Examination 
unless he shall satisfy the Examines that for three years 
tehas been registered and employed as an Apprentice or 
