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MEETING OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS, GLASGOW. 
means , and since it could not be doubted that the end was to procure a pure and staple 
solution of perchloride of iron, it became a duty if the case required it, to use more 
hydrochloric acid, or attain the same object by some other means. He moved that the 
thanks of the meeting were due to Mr. Yewdall, which was seconded by Mr. Atkinson 
and carried. 
MEETING OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS AT GLASGOW. 
A Meeting of Chemists and Druggists was held in the Lesser Trades Hall, Glassford 
Street, on Thursday, 24th November, to consider the proposed Bills of the Pharmaceutical 
and United Societies ; copies of each Bill had been distributed amongst the profession 
during the previous week, by the Chemists and Druggists’ Association. 
During the preliminary arrangement for the meeting it was matter of discussion 
whether it should be one of employers only, but seeing that the proposed Bills were 
intended to affect all the profession, an invitation was in accordance issued to all. 
A deputation from the Pharmaceutical Society, Edinburgh, was present, consisting of 
the following gentlemen:—Mr. Kemp, President; Messrs. Brown, Ainslie, Blanchard, 
Young, and Mr. John Mackay, Secretary. 
Mr. C. Buott, Registrar of the United Society, was also present at the meeting. 
Amongst the employers present were the following:—Messrs. Hugh Hart, John Currie, 
James Murdock, John Jaap, Alexander Ivinninmont, John Black, Thomas D. Moffat, 
John Campbell, James Taite, Peter Harrower, David P. Walker, Andrew Wylie, James 
N. Shearer, J. White, James Sutherland, T. H. Schlater, Clark, Hatrick, Henderson, 
Paterson, Taylor, Dr. Dobbie, Mr. Rait, of Partick; Mr. MNaught, of Greenock; Mr. 
Ferguson, of Greenock, etc. etc.; and a large number of assistants. 
On the motion of Mr. John Campbell, seconded by Mr. Moffat, Mr. Hugh Hart was 
called to the chair. 
The Chairman then introduced to the meeting Mr. C. Buott, of the United Society of 
Chemists and Druggists, who at great length reviewed the policy adopted by the Phar¬ 
maceutical Council; he used the term “Council” advisedly, because he was satisfied 
that very many members of the Pharmaceutical Society did not homologate the policy 
pursued by the Council. He contended that that policy had been inconsistent, antago¬ 
nistic to, and incompatible with the desires and wishes of the trade,—not a representative 
policy, but one of exclusion, quite different, he was sure, from that which their founder, 
and that great champion of pharmaceutical reform, the late Jacob Bell, contemplated; 
since his decease the Council had departed entirely from that plan which he originated, 
and which was the one great effort of his life to perpetuate and maintain, viz. to “ unite 
the chemists and druggists in one ostensible, recognised, and independent body.” He 
asked, had this been the result of their labours, or rather inaction, for the last twenty 
years ? No : and hence the society which he represented sprang into existence, deter¬ 
mined to carry out that great principle of the founder of the Pharmaceutical Society ; 
and he was happy to state that their labours had not been in vain, upwards of 3000 
members having joined the United Society, whose existence dated back only three years; 
this large body, which was steadily on the increase, was an “influence” and a “power 
to be felt,” not certainly by abusing that “ power,” but by united action in the one great 
and glorious cause. An overture, he said, had been made to the Pharmaceutical Council, 
to effect a compromise, or rather friendly co-operation, but such was repulsed with that 
discourtesy which he had always received at the hands of that body. After some other 
severe strictures on the policy pursued by the Pharmaceutical Council, Mr. Buott apolo¬ 
gized to the meeting for having occupied so much of their time, and that he would 
meantime postpone his remarks on the proposed Bills of the Pharmaceutical and United 
Societies, so that any gentleman present might have an opportunity of replying to what 
he had said. 
Mr. John Mackay, of Edinburgh, then rose, and was received with much applause. 
He said, before proceeding to combat the severe strictures denounced against the policy of 
the Pharmaceutical Council by Mr. Buott, he might be allowed to express the pleasure 
he, along with the deputation from Edinburgh, experienced on receiving an invitation 
to take part in the business of the present meeting ; they had on several occasions an 
