472 MEEl'IXG O? CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS AT YORK. 
noxious schedule; as, with the safeguards introduced in other clauses, it was quite suffi¬ 
cient to fillup Schedule “ B,” and no person could possibly get on the register who was 
not fully entitled to be there. 
An animated discussion took place on the original and the amended clause (which 
was seconded by Mr. Croskill), when the amended clause was agreed to unanimously. 
Amendments were moved on Clauses 5, 6,8, and Schedule “ D,” introducing apprentices, 
according to a previous resolution, and in Clause G an amendment was carried that the 
fee be fixed at not exceeding half-a-guinea. 
Mr. J. Brown said he agreed to all the following clauses except Clause 1G, which he 
said still betrayed that illiberality to the general body of chemists which he had pre¬ 
viously commented upon. Was it to be believed that the Council of the Pharmaceutical 
Society were serious in expecting the registered chemists would pass the Minor exami¬ 
nation in order to become Associates, to pay an annual subscription and yet not to be 
admitted as members ? The proposition was ridiculous; he himself was for union, and 
why could not the Society say, once for all, to the trade, We are anxious to get a Bill 
that will satisfy you; we will respect all existing interests, and though we cannot 
compel you to subscribe your guinea annually, and become a member, we will give you 
the opportunity of becoming one should you desire it ? He himself, and he doubted not 
many others would join, should such a clause be passed, and it was in the interests of 
the Society itself that he should move it. The amended clause would allow registered 
chemists and their assistants to become members and associates of the Pharmaceutical 
Society on application to the Council, and by paying the same annual subscription, to 
have and exercise all the rights belonging to present members and associates. 
Mr. T. Cooper said, as the local secretary of the Society, he had great pleasure in 
seconding the amended clause, as he was convinced it would benefit the Society, and 
would be accomplishing an object he had long considered most desirable. It would gain 
for the Society an increased support from the great body of respectable chemists who 
were not non-members, but who under the Act would become registered; and he 
thought it was desirable on the part of the Society to be more liberal to non-members 
than the proposed Bill appeared to be. 
Messrs. Dresser, Croskill, Bulmer, and others offered some additional remarks, when the 
Chairman put the question of the amended clause, which was unanimously agreed to. 
Mr. Brown then read over the Bill of the United Society, and afterwards moved the 
resolution, with the amended clauses, which is appended to this report. It was seconded 
by Mr. Dresser, and carried unanimously. 
A vote of thanks -was accorded to the Chairman, who duly acknowledged the com¬ 
pliment, and stated it had afforded him great pleasure to preside over so united a 
meeting. 
A vote of thanks was also passed to Messrs. Cooper and Brown, the secretaries of the 
respective societies, for their services in connection with the meeting, who in responding 
thereto gave expression to their views and wishes for the union of the whole body of 
chemists and druggists, and hoped that the proposed amendments then agreed to by the 
York druggists would be supported in other towns; so that the two Societies might be 
impressed with the absolute necessity of harmonious action, and might agree to a mea¬ 
sure acceptable to the whole trade. 
The meeting shortly after broke up at a late hour, a dinner having been agreed upon 
to take place during the winter, to cement the friendly feeling displayed towards each 
other by the York chemists. 
At a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Chemists, and Chemists and Druggists, held at 
the King’s Arms Hotel, York, on the 20th of January, 1865, Mr. George Dennis in the 
chair, the following resolution and amended clauses of the proposed Pharmacy Bill were 
unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be forwarded to the Council of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society of Great Britain, and the Executive Committee of the United Society 
of Chemists and Druggists:— 
Resolution.—Moved by Mr. J. Brown, seconded by Mr. Dresser, and carried una¬ 
nimously,—that the York Pharmaceutical Chemists, and Chemists and Druggists, being in 
public meeting assembled to consider the proposed Bills of the Pharmaceutical Society 
and the United Society of Chemists and Druggists, for the future regulation of the 
