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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
Resolved,—That this meeting cannot separate without expressing its high sense of the 
great courtesy shown by the Council in its correspondence with this Association, 
Resolved,—That the President be requested to communicate the above Resolutions to 
the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
Signed on behalf of the Association, 
John B. Merrikin, 
Bath, January IG, 1867. President. 
COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS OF 
MANCHESTER. 
United Society of Chemists and Druggists. 
Offices, 20, New Ormond Street, W. C., 
London, Qth December, 1866. 
The Secretary and Registrar of 
The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
Sir,—I am instructed by the Executive Committee of this Society to forward 
you a copy of resolutions passed at a public meeting of chemists and druggists 
of the Manchester district, for the consideration of the Council of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society, in compliance with the request therein embodied. 
I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 
C. F. Buott, 
Pro Reqistrar and Secretary. 
(Copy.) 
Resolutions passed at a Public Meeting held at the Clarence Hotel, Manchester, 
23r<i November, 1866. 
“Wm. Bowker, Esq., Ex-Mayor of Manchester, in the Chair. 
1. That, as voluntary examination has failed to protect the public against incompe¬ 
tent druggists, this Meeting recommends that a Bill be brought into Parliament to alter 
and amend the Pharmacy Act, so as to embrace all chemists and druggists in the Phar¬ 
maceutical Society, upon the principle of compulsory examination. 
“ 2. That, under the New Act, all examined members of the Pharmaceutical Society 
shall be entitled to distinction, whilst all other chemists and druggists, now in business, 
shall be members of the Society on payment of an annual fee, and be eligible to nomi¬ 
nate or to be nominated upon the Council. 
“ 3. That all existing assistants and apprentices may be registered as such, and he 
admitted as members of the Society, on becoming chemists and druggists in business, 
but all other persons, on becoming chemists and druggists, shall be required to pass a 
certain examination, and to pay such fees as may be agreed upon. 
“ 4. That the Executive Committee of the United Society of Chemists and Druggists, 
as the representatives of the unincorporated chemists and druggists of the country, whose 
interests must be chiefly affected by any measure to regulate the trade, be respectfully 
requested to lay these proposals before the Pharmaceutical Council for consideration; 
and that the Pharmaceutical Council be respectfully requested to communicate their 
answer to such proposals, unreservedly, to the Executive Committee, so that that Com¬ 
mittee may take the sense of the unincorporated chemists and druggists upon it before 
the meeting of Parliament.” 
The resolutions having been considered, it was resolved— 
“ That a copy of the suggestions* for an extension of the Pharmacy Act, handed to 
the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, in February, 1866, be forwarded 
to the Executive Committee of the United Society, with a request that the same may be 
transmitted to the Chairman of the Manchester meeting, with an intimation that this 
Council is still impressed with the necessity for legislation, and of opinion that, in the 
ensuing session of Parliament, success might be achieved if chemists and druggists 
generally would unite in supporting a measure based on those propositions; comparing 
* See Phann. Journ. Transactions, January, p. 363. 
