LEEDS chemists’ ASSOCIATION. 
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If, after duo deliberation, you resolve to take action on this matter, may I express a 
hope that, together with other important advantages, an improved Pharmacy Act will 
give you power to place the Benevolent Fund of the Society in more active operation 
and over a wider held ? 
I am, Gentlemen, with much respect. 
Your obedient servant, 
One of the Foundeks op your Society. 
London, Dccemher SlJi, 18G3. 
APPENDIX III. 
30, Bucklershury, London, February 22nd, 18G4. 
Sir,—I beg here to hand you a requisition, signed (inclusive of partners in firms) by 
about 300 Members of the Pharmaceutical Society, requesting the Council to convene 
a Special General Meeting. 
It is right to inform you that there has been no systematic canvass for signatures, 
nor any influence brought to bear, beyond the insertion of a single advertisement in the 
‘ Standard ’ newspaper, and the forwarding copies of the requisition to a few gentlemen 
wEo were personally known to the originators of the movement, or supposed to feel a 
warm interest in the progress of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
Another requisition is also sent, signed by no less than forty-five chemists (members 
and no/i-members), from the important town of Leeds. These gentlemen urge action in 
concert with another Society, but point to-your Board as the proper examining body, in 
the same words as are employed in the other requisition. 
I am of course aware that an application from ?2o?2-member3 imposes no legal obliga¬ 
tion on the Council, but I feel assured that their sense of justice and courtesy will en¬ 
sure it all due consideration. 
I am. Sir, yours obediently, 
B. B. Orridge, 
lion. Secretary to the Requisitionists. 
The Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
To the President, Yice-Fresident, and Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Great Britain. 
Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned, believing that it is highly desirable for the pro¬ 
tection of the public that all future chemists and druggists should undergo a due pro¬ 
fessional examination before commencing business, hereby request you to convene a 
general meeting of the Members of our Society, for the purpose of considering the ex¬ 
pediency of an immediate application to Parliament for an amended Pharmacy Act, by 
which (following the precedent of the “Apothecaries Act”) the legitimate mterests of 
those already in business shoidd be protected, and proper provisions made for rendering 
the examinations of future chemists by your Board a compulsory instead of an optional 
proceeding:— 
Baiss, Brothers, & Co., 102, Leadeuhall St. 
Barron, Harvey, and Co., G, Giltspur Street. 
Battley and Walts, 32, Whitecross Street. 
Burgess, Willows, and Co., 101, High 
Holborn. 
Davey, Mackmurdo, and Co., 100, Upper 
Thames Street. 
Drew, Barron, and Co., 2, Bush Lane. 
Evans, Lescher, and Evans, 60, Bartho¬ 
lomew Close. 
Hearon, MUulloch, and Squire, 5, Cole¬ 
man Street. 
Ilodgkinson, Tonge, and Stead, 213, Upper 
Thames Street. 
Hodgkinson, Thomas, and Co., 8G, Snow 
Hill. 
Preston and Sons, 88, Leadenhall Street. 
Westwood and Hopkins, 10, Newgate 
Street. 
Wyman, John, 122, Fore Street. 
And about three hundred other firms connected with the Pharmaceutical Society. 
February, 1864. 
