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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
Commissioners of Inland Eevenue, praying for a reduction of the Methylated Spirit 
Licence, was received from Mr, Pooley, of Bath, (Local Secretary,) with a request that 
the Council would present it, and support its prayer. 
SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCIL, 19^/j February, 1867. 
Present—Messrs. Bird, Bottle, Carteighe, Hanbury, Haselden, Hills, Ince, Morson, 
Orridge, Palmer, Randall, Sandford, Savage, Squire, and Waugh. 
To receive the Deputations, as arranged on the 6th inst. 
Reports of resolutions in reference to the “ Suggestions ” of the Council, as published 
in the January number of the Journal, for an amended Pharmacy Bill, were received 
and read from— 
The York Chemists’ Association, 
The Bolton Chemists’ Association, 
The Chemists’ Assistants’ Association, London, 
The Chemists and Druggists of Hanley and district, 
CONFERENCES AT THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY’S ROOMS, 
BLOOMSBURY SQUARE, FEBRUARY 19, 1867. 
A number of chemists and druggists waited upon the Council of the Pharmaceutical 
Society of Great Britain, at the Institution, Bloomsbury Square, on Tuesday, 19th of 
February, for the purpose of discussing the suggestions made by the Society for an ex¬ 
tension of the Pharmacy Act. They came as a deputation from the Meeting of the 
Trade which was held at the London Coffee House on the 24th of January. 
Mr. Matthews, F.C.S., President of the United Society, introduced the deputation. 
He said:—Mr. President and Gentlemen, I have the pleasure of introducing to you 
several gentlemen connected with the United Society of Chemists and Druggists, and 
several other gentlemen connected with the trade—some being from the country and 
others carrying on business in town—and I trust that the conference to-day may lead to 
good results. By way of opening the subject I may mention that we have received 
some short communications from the country, which Mr. Buott, the Secretary of the 
United Society of Chemists and Druggists, will be good enough to read. I shall then 
leave other gentlemen to express their opinions on the subject who are more per¬ 
sonally interested in the matter than 1 profess to be. 
Mr. Buott : I may just state, before reading the correspondence, that Manchester, 
Birmingham, the towns of the Potteries, and other towns, have distinctly placed before 
the trade their views on the subject which we have to converse upon this morning. 
But there are two or three communications, which it is the special request of those 
from whom we have received them should be read to-day. Mr. Buott then read letters 
from Sunderland, Newcastle, and York. 
Mr. Betty then opened the real business of the meeting. He assured the Council 
that he felt it a great honour and privilege to form one of the deputation on an occasion 
from which so many good results were likely to follow, and from which might date a 
new era of advancing prosperity to the trade of chemists and druggists throughout the 
country. The deputation were the representatives of the present, past, and future. 
Looking to the past, they asked the Council to consider the objects for which the 
Society was established; and looking to the future, they asked the Council to consider 
the status which the rising generation of chemists and druggists would enjoy. He 
hoped they had met to effect some practical good. He asked the Council to take into 
consideration the conclusions arrived at by the chemists and druggists at the London 
Coffee House. Those conclusions were intended to place the trade in the position which 
they wished to occupy; and he trusted some understanding would be come to by which 
the trade would attain its proper influence, and keep pace with the increasing educa¬ 
tional requirements of the age, and by which chemists and druggists throughout the 
country would achieve a position of wealth and dignity, which their honour, integrity, 
and ability as a class j ustly entitle them to. 
Mr. Anderson, in accordance with the programme laid down by the deputation, 
said he wished to lay before the Council the resolutions carried at the London Tavern 
by a meeting of the trade, and to place these side by side with the suggestions of 
