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THE PROPOSED HEW PHARMACY BILL. 
PHARMACY. 
1. Eecognition of Preparations. 
2. Description of their Composition and proportions of Active Ingredients. 
3. Description of Pharmacopoeia Processes. 
CHEMISTRY. 
1. Eecognition of Chemical Substances used in Medicine. 
2. Processes for their Preparation. 
3. Chemical Composition and Decomposition. 
4. Detection of such Impurities as are ordinarily met with. 
5. Antidotes for Poisons. 
6. Nature and Method of taking Specific Gravities. 
BOTANY. 
1. Eecognition of Important Indigenous Medicinal Plants from Fresh or Dried 
Specimens. 
2. Distinctive Characters of Eoots, Stems, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, and 
their Parts. 
3. Functions of Eoots, Stems, and Leaves. 
Now here lies the answer to our enemies who chuckled over the notion that 
we were, in extremis , offering a farce examination to all comers ; the assurance 
to our friends, v r ho trembled under the idea that we were sacrificing principle 
to expedience to gain popularity in times of commotion (an honest fear which 
we must respect in them) ; and a proof to the public that men holding our di¬ 
ploma are worthy to be trusted. And for the chemists who would take advantage 
of this means of obtaining Parliamentary recognition and registration,—what 
for them? Why, an assurance that the Society demands no greater qualification 
than every one of them ought to possess, and can give evidence of possessing, 
after two or three months’ reading, in conjunction with the opportunities af¬ 
forded by the daily exercise of their own business ; and a much more self-ennobling 
appreciation of their diploma than they would have if it wrnre granted to them 
on mere certificate o f fitness , as was necessarily the case in the first formation 
of the Society. 
An earnest of success may be found in the number who presented themselves 
for examination in October. Seventeen went up, and fourteen were successful 
in passing the ordeal. More than seventeen made application,—indeed, more 
than could well be examined in one day. 
It is not intended to have examinations of this kind monthly, but the 
number seemed to demand the appointment of a second day, and in justice an 
early one was fixed. There will be no further repetition until the 25th January, 
and this we conceive will be an advantage to those who wish to present them¬ 
selves ; with the synopsis in hand they will know exactly what will be re¬ 
quired of them, and knowing too that it will be honestly carried out, they 
will, we trust, be so prepared that not even three out of seventeen will be un - 
successful. 
THE PROPOSED NEW PHARMACY BILL. 
On Tuesday, the 22nd of November, as the newspapers have already an¬ 
nounced, a deputation of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, consist¬ 
ing of Mr. Sandford (President), Mr. Hills (Vice-President), Mr. Daniel 
Bell Hanbury(Treasurer), Mr. Squire, Mr. Morson, Mr. Waugh, Mr. Orridge, 
Dr. Edwards, Mr. Flux (Solicitor), and Mr. Bremridge (Secretary), had an 
interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, at the Home Office, on the 
subject of a proposed Bill for regulating the qualification of Chemists and 
