■September 9, 1871.] THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
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MEETING OF COUNCIL. 
September Qth , 1871. 
MU. A. F. HASELDEN, F.L.S., PRESIDENT, IN' THE CHAIR. 
MR. EDWARDS, VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Present—Messrs. Atherton, Betty, Bottle, Carr, 
''Greenish, Groves, Hills, Savage, Stoddart, Sutton, and 
Williams. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and con¬ 
firmed. 
A letter from Mr. Deane was read in reference to the 
condition of the Museum, Library, and Specimens for 
-the use of the Board of Examiners in Scotland. 
The Council had an interview with Mr. Deane, and 
after some discussion, he having retired, it was 
Moved by Mr. Greenish, seconded by Mr. Bottle: 
Unsolved—That Mr. Deane’s letter be entered on the 
minutes, and that the following constitute a special 
Committee to report to the Council thereon:— 
Committee : — The President, the Vice-President, 
'Messrs. Betty, Frazer, Mackay, Sandford, Shaw, Sutton, 
and Williams. 
The Report of the Finance Committee was presented, 
showing on the General Fund Account a balance in the 
Treasurer’s hands of.£1178. 8s. 8A 
And submitting for payment accounts amounting 
to.‘ . . . . £506. 16*. lid. 
On the Benevolent Fund Account subscriptions re¬ 
ceived during the month of August amounted to £14. 
55. 0 d., making the balance in the Treasurer’s hands 
•of.£245. 11s. Id. 
Resolved—That the Report be received and adopted, 
and payments made. 
The Report of the Provincial Education Committee 
Raving been read, it was 
Resolved that it be received. 
The Report and recommendations of the Parliamen¬ 
tary Committee having been read, it was 
Resolved—That they be received and adopted. 
Resolved—That the Registrar be authorized, and is 
hereby instructed, to erase from the register the 
names of Thomas Letch, Edward Mickle, and 
William Laws. 
Resolved—That John Jackson, of Wetherby, being 
duly registered as a Pharmaceutical Chemist, be 
elected a Member. 
Resolved—That Richard Wood, of Macclesfield, a re¬ 
gistered Chemist and Druggist, be elected a Member. 
Resolved—That a Member having paid his arrears 
of subscription and a fine, be restored to-his original 
status in the Society. 
Resolved—That Henry J. Morncment, Associate of 
the Society before July, 1842, be elected a Member. 
.Moved by Mr. Williams, seconded by Mr. Betty, 
That the following registered Chemists and Druggists 
be elected Members of the Society:— 
Edward Gould.Bromley. 
John Middleton Wyborn .Bromley. 
Mr. Groves called attention to the fact that these names 
had been submitted to the Council for election on a pre- 
•vious occasion, and stated that he still objected to their 
election on the ground that they were homoeopathic 
< chemists. 
Mr. Williams said' that Mr. Gould had spoken to 
him on the subject, and he certainly did not think 
they were acting fairly in not electing him. He was a 
man of standing, and he did not think they ought to 
draw a line and say they would not admit homoeopathic 
chemists. -Many of their members sold homoeopathic 
medicines, and as Mr. Gould said, it was a most absurd 
thing that he should not be a member of the Society 
when some of his assistants were pharmaceutical che¬ 
mists or chemists and druggists. Mr. Gould was pro¬ 
perly registered under the Act, and claimed, as he thought 
rightly, to be elected a member of the Society. He 
brought it forward as a matter of principle. 
Mr. Groves said that equally as a matter of principle 
he should vote against the motion. 
Mr. Carr said he should do the same. 
Mr. Edwards asked if there were any homoeopathic 
chemists members of the Society. 
The Secretary said he believed not. 
_ Sir. Groves said the Society was one of Pharmaceu¬ 
tical Chemists; these men did not use the same Phar¬ 
macopoeia, or the same drugs, nor had they anything to 
do with the Society. They might as well admit hydro- 
pathists. 
Mr. Williams thought that under tho Act of Parlia¬ 
ment they were almost bound to eloct any one properly 
placed on the register. 
Mr. Atherton said they were not bound to admit 
anybody. 
Mr. Edwards said tho Act made a great distinction 
between matters for the public benefit and matters 
affecting their own internal arrangements as a Society. 
If a man passed a certain examination he was entitled 
to call himself a pharmaceutical chemist, and have all 
rights, accruing to him as such, but making him a mem¬ 
ber of the Society was optional. 
Mr. Bottle read clause 18 of the Act 1868,—“ Every 
person who at the time of the passing of this Act is or 
has been in business on his own account as a chemist 
and druggist as aforesaid, and who shall be registered as 
a chemist and druggist, shall be eligible to be elected 
and continue a member of tho Pharmaceutical Society 
according to the Bye-laws thereof.” 
Mr. Betty seconded the motion. He thought, imder 
the words of the eighteenth clause, they were morally 
bound to elect any properly qualified person, because he 
recollected there was a long discussion on the meaning 
of the word “eligible” prior to the passing of the Act, 
and Mr. Sandford, the then President, stated that that 
word meant that there was a moral right in the persons 
referred to to be elected. Indeed, after communication 
with Mr. Flux upon the subject, he believed Mr. Sand¬ 
ford went so far as to say that with that word in the 
Act of Parliament there was a legal right, and he stated 
distinctly that he should have no objection to substitute 
the words “shall have a right.” Again, they called 
themselves the Pharmaceutical Society, and according 
to etymology that included all who ministered to the 
public wants with regard to curing diseases. They had 
nothing to do with the manner in which those diseases 
were cured; homoeopathic chemists dispensed the pre¬ 
scriptions of duly qualified medical practitioners, and he 
did not see how they could properly be excluded. If 
they cured diseases by a method which the old school 
did not think the best, that had nothing to do with the 
Pharmaceutical Society. He thought, therefore, they 
were morally bound to elect these gentlemen; and if 
there was no legal right, they should certainly act in a 
liberal rather than in a narrow spirit. At any rate he 
should like to hear some reason given for refusing to 
elect them. 
Mr. Hills said his reason for voting against the elec¬ 
tion was that he did not think these gentlemen would 
do the Society any good, or that they would get any 
good from it. It might cause contention in tho educa¬ 
tional department, for they might wish to introduce lec¬ 
tures on homoeopathic pharmacy. 
