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'THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[July 15, 1871. 
Williams, Jabez Vivian.Ramsgate. 
Wood, Alexander.New Brentford. 
MODIFIED. 
Finch, Thomas.Edinburgh. 
Herbert, William.Southwark. 
Johnson, Arthur .Rotherham. 
Mason, John..Hastings. 
Midgley, Charles.Bradford. 
Spyer, Newton.Watlington. 
Turpin, Alfred Barritt .Oxford. 
SUPPLEMENT TO THE REPORT OF THE 
SPECIAL COMMITTEE. 
(See parje 33.) 
No. of 
Chemists and No. of 
Name of Town. Druggists Signatures. 
in Town. 
Leeds . 102 100 
Stroud. 12 12 
Shrewsbury ... 18 18 
Ramsgate. 11 10 
Huddersfield . 12 
Whittlesea. 26 
Dudley. 18 
Harwich . 3 3 
Warrington . 10 10 
fwMitrial tairadians. 
MIDLAND COUNTIES CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIA¬ 
TION. 
At a Council Meeting held in the library of the above 
Association on Friday, July 7, the following circular was 
ordered to be printed and circulated amongst the chemists 
of the Midland Counties:—• 
“Dear Sir,—At the last meeting of the Council of this 
Association it was resolved to endeavour to extend its 
operations and the sphere of its usefulness by taking- 
more active cognizance of the various questions relating 
to trade and education which have especially arisen out 
of the Pharmacy Act of 1868, and by providing rooms 
in Birmingham for the transaction of the business of the 
Association, for the general purposes of a trade office, 
reading and club rooms, and for any other objects con¬ 
nected with the interests of chemists and druggists. 
The Midland Counties Chemists’ Association is not 
without its records of useful services. Amongst these 
may be mentioned the successful influence (as the Coun¬ 
cil believe) which it has brought to bear upon the 
Government in the framing of the Petroleum Act, in a 
form which it is expected will be acceptable to chemists; 
—in the providing of excellent courses of lectures for 
students in chemistry and pharmacy, in the winter of 
1869-70, and in the compilation of the Midland Counties 
Chemists’ Price Book, which has had so much demand 
that a second edition is already issued. And yet, having- 
regard to the important interests of the great midland 
district, the Council are conscious that the Association 
has not yet risen to the full position which it ought to 
occupy. Twenty years ago the ‘Birmingham Pharma¬ 
ceutical Institution’ w-as second to none in the provinces, 
but since its decadence, associations of chemists in other 
great centres, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, 
Nottingham, Bristol, have conspicuously come to the 
front, and now maintain, with unabated ardour, their 
vigilant supervision of whatever relates to the interests 
and welfare of pharmacy. They have each their repre¬ 
sentatives in the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society 
in London, whilst the chemists of the Midland Counties 
of England and Wales, covering an area of more than 
100 miles from east to west, or from north to south, with 
Birmingham for their commercial centre, do not possess 
a powerful organization, and do not now possess one 
representative at the London Board. 
“It is with the intention of remedying this state of 
things that the Council of the Midland Counties Che¬ 
mists’ Association now makes an appeal to all chemists 
residing within the vast district of which Birmingham 
is the centre, to unite together in the formation of a 
vigorous Association. The passing of the Pharmacy 
Act of 1S68 has imposed upon chemists the necessity of 
a higher education, which will in due course of time 
elevate the general character of the trade, and invest it 
wfith greater responsibilities. The provision of facilities 
for the education of young men in pharmacy, chemistry, 
etc. etc., is rendered easy in Birmingham, where appli¬ 
ances for this purpose exist in abundance. The Council 
of the Association invite young men, desirous of availing 
themselves of courses of lectures in aid of their studies, 
to communicate early w-ith the honorary secretaries, 
who wall give them information of the terms on which 
classes in connection wdth the Queen’s College may be 
formed. 
“Besides these just claims upon the services of such 
an Association as this, there are others affecting the 
privileges of chemists and druggists under the Pharmacy 
Act of which the Association will take cognizance. It 
is w'ell knowm that there are persons w-ho continue with 
impunity to sell poisons who are not registered under 
the Act, and wdio thus render themselves obnoxious to 
the law’, but who, in the absence of any prosecutor, 
escape its penalties. All members of the Association are- 
invited to report to the Council any cases of the evasion 
of the Pharmacy Act which they are able to substantiate, 
and measures will thereupon be taken to protect the= 
privileges of its members in this respect. 
“ The Council will also make it their business to wntch 
the various questions on w-hich (like the present ‘Amended 
Pharmacy Act,’ now before the House of Commons) 
the expression of opinion throughout the country is so- 
important. It may be here mentioned that the Council 
have sent one petition to Parliament on this question, 
and have set on foot another to be signed by individual 
chemists, praying Parliament to suspend the present. 
Act until the recent ‘ recommendations ’ of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Council have been tried, or until all other 
dispensers of medicine in Great Britain are included in 
one measure of regulation. 
“ It will also be the duty of the Council of the Asso¬ 
ciation at the next election of the Council of the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, to insist upon the claims of Birming¬ 
ham and the Midland Counties to one seat (at least) on 
the Board in London, of which this district has been de¬ 
prived by the action of other Associations. 
“ The offices of the Association, which are now open 
at the Quadrant Chambers, Birmingham, are furnished 
with the nucleus of what it is hoped will become a useful 
library of reference and research for chemists in all 
questions affecting their trade occupation, and for assist¬ 
ants desirous of qualifying themselves for the examina¬ 
tions. Periodicals are laid upon the table, and there is 
accommodation in the rooms for the reception and display 
of any trade novelties which manufacturers or firms in. 
business may desire to bring under the notice of drug¬ 
gists ; the only condition required in sending such arti¬ 
cles being that they shall become the property of th©. 
Association, and be sent carriage paid. 
“Meetings of the Association will be held in these- 
rooms on the first Friday in each month, at three o’clock 
f.m., for the transaction of business. All members 
throughout the Midland Counties are earnestly invited to- 
attend these meetings, and to support them by their in¬ 
fluence. The rooms will be freely at the service of all 
assistants and apprentices (members of the Association), 
where they may hold meetings, read original papers, 
and use them for the purposes of a club. The rooms- 
w r ill be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. All chemists (mem¬ 
bers of the Association) and their friends are invited 
