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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. [November 12, 1870. 
sent as a period of transition, since a large number of 
young men are now engaged in pharmacy who entered 
upon it prior to the passing of the Pharmacy Act of 
18G8, and who find that qualifications which they did 
not anticipate are demanded from them. These young 
men represent the class which will probably be the 
earliest to reap the full benefits of the Pharmacy Act, 
but it must be admitted that they do not find those edu- 
cational institutions which should be complementary to 
the examinations they must undergo. For a period of 
five or six years this class will continue to exist, but in 
a diminishing ratio. The history'of the School of Phar¬ 
macy in Bloomsbury Square affords a precedent, since 
private enterprise could not sustain the earlier years of 
an establishment so favourably situated as that was. 
The fact that education was a voluntary act justified the 
support given by the Society to the School of Phar¬ 
macy. The position of the class of young men now re¬ 
ferred to justifies the extension of aid to educational 
courses in the provinces. When this transition period 
shall have passed, the raison d'etre of the present scheme 
will have passed with it, and the experience of its work¬ 
ing will certainly leave some valuable lessons. The 
Committee do not consider that it will permanently be 
the duty of the Society to contribute funds for educa¬ 
tional purposes in the provinces, and they would urge 
upon all who undertake the management of local educa¬ 
tion to bear in mind that in a few years it should be self- 
supporting. Even now, thoroughness ought to be en¬ 
sured in any course offered to students, and such fees 
should be fixed as are compatible with this. 
The Committee recommend that for the present the 
following be laid down as conditions for making grants 
in aid of Provincial Schools of Pharmacy, viz.:— 
1. That the application bo made in writing by three 
or more resident members of the Pharmaceutical So¬ 
ciety. 
2. That it shall state the kind of aid required, and, 
where a money grant is applied for, shall indicate the 
sum intended to be applied to each specific purpose. 
3. That where a grant is made for the purpose of pro¬ 
viding materials for class-teaching, the applicants shall 
be prepared to guarantee their safe custody for a period 
of three years. The said materials to be the loaned pro¬ 
perty of the Pharmaceutical Society for three years, at 
the expiration of which they may be resumed by it, or 
otherwise disposed of. The Council may, in special 
cases, forego this guarantee where it deems it not desir¬ 
able. 
4. Such duplicate specimens as may from time to time 
be available from the Society’s Museum shall be distri¬ 
buted amongst the Museums of Societies making appli¬ 
cation in accordance with Clause 1, and shall be regarded 
as absolute gifts unless the Council shall impose condi¬ 
tions. 
5. Applications for aid to libraries must give particu¬ 
lars of the number of volumes already contained in such 
library, and specify the name of each book applied for 
and its price. 
6. That where a grant is applied for towards guaran¬ 
teeing a minimum sum to a teacher of chemistry, prac¬ 
tical chemistry, materia medica, pharmacy, or botany, 
a statement shall be made of the number of lectures to 
be given, the lecture hours, and the fees to be paid by 
the students. If such grant be made, the names and 
attendance of the students at each lecture must be re¬ 
corded, and reported to the Council at the end of the 
course. 
7. The Council may grant sums to pay to provincial 
schools one-half of the salary of a student or other person 
as curator and lecture assistant. 
8. The relative claim of any town to receive aid from 
the Society must be indicated by the earnestness and 
efficiency of local effort. A complete curriculum of che¬ 
mistry, practical chemistry, materia medica, pharmacy 
and botany, is the standard to be aimed at. 
9. All applications to the Council for aid may be re¬ 
ferred to a standing Committee appointed annually for 
this purpose. The recommendations of the Committee 
to be laid before the Council for action thereon. 
10. The Committee to present annually a tabulated 
return of the state of Provincial Education. 
Resolved—That the Committee on Pharmaceutical! 
Education be continued as a standing Committee. 
Resolved—That a grant of not less than eight guineas 
be made to applicants from Norwich for the pur¬ 
chase of sots of Botanical Diagrams, subject to the 
conditions already adopted by the Council. 
REPORTS OF EXAMINERS. 
October , 1870. 
England and Wales. 
Candidates 
October 14, Modified. 
Examined. 
Passed. 
30 
Failed. 
15 
11 
19, Major. 
. 4 
4 
0 
11 
,, Minor. 
. 24 
19 
5 
11 
20, ,, . 
. 18 
13 
5 
11 
3, Preliminary . 
.224 
164 
60 
11 
„ Certificates in 
Preliminary 
nation . 
lieu of 
Exami- 
. 9 
0 
0 
SCOTL 
October 11, Major. 
324 
AND. 
Examined. 
. 2 
230 
Passed. 
2 
85 
Failed 
0 
,, Minor. 
. 6 
4 
2 
,, Modified. 
. 9 
7 
2 
11 
,, Preliminary . 
. 5 
4 
1 
22 
17 
5 
Resolved—That diplomas stamped with the Seal of the- 
Society be severally granted to the following Pharma¬ 
ceutical Chemists:— 
Barrett, Frederick John.Fakenham. 
Butterworth, Albert .Sowerby Bridge. 
Joule, John Samuel.Buxton. 
Strickland, George Hodgson .. Yarm. 
Resolved—That the following, having passed their 
respective Examinations, be elected 
ASSOCIATES OF THE SOCIETY. 
Minok. 
Bradford, Cordley .Spalding. 
Eden, Thomas .Dublin. 
Elliott, Thomas.Clay Cross. 
Foster, Henry P.Portsmouth. 
Francis, Geo. B.Diss. 
Goodman, Daniel H.Bath. 
Grinstead, John .Chichester. 
Little, Arthur N .Bristol. 
Loveless, Edward Wm.Bath. 
Marshall, Austen.Stratford-on-Avon.. 
Melhuish, Thomas B.London. 
Part, Edward James .Dover. 
Robinson, Joseph.Chester-le-Street.- 
Salmon, Thomas .Pontypool. 
Thomas, John D. D.Clifton. 
Walker, John S.Manchester. 
Modified. 
Cullen, Robert Henry'.Paris. 
Dunn, Henry .Shipley. 
Evans, John.Worcester. 
Farrer, Robert S.Brighton. 
Fewstcr, William L.Liverpool. 
Forster, William Day.Godaiming- 
