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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
the Council; therefore the Council might surely he trusted to elect the members on be¬ 
half of the Society. He confessed he could see no more ready or even safer way of 
electing a man, and he did not know what else the deputation could wish. In their 
suggestions the Council did not compel any man to register as a Chemist and Druggist. 
They said “ there should be a register open,” but it was entirely left to the man’s own 
option whether he did register. If he did not do so, he was at liberty still to carry on 
his business, to go on calling himself a Chemist and Druggist, and conduct his business 
as heretofore. On the other hand, if he liked to register himself, the door was thrown 
open to him, and, being so registered, he might, if he liked, become a member of this 
Society in the ordinary way. 
Mr. Betty: Do you object to substitute for the word eligible, “shall have the right”? 
The Pkesident (Mr. Sandford) : Certainly not. 
Mr. Pass : In a club a man is obliged to get a proposer and seconder. 
The President said the system adopted in the Society was for a man to send in his 
application to the Secretary, and the proposing and seconding took place as a matter of 
course in the Council meeting. 
Mr. Toogood (of Hull) observed that in that town there were nearly seventy persons 
in the trade connected with the United Society, and not twenty, he thought, connected 
with the Pharmaceutical Society. He should very much like, if they could, to shake 
hands and agree, and become one Society. He formed one of a deputation which waited 
upon Sir George Grey in reference to two Bills connected with the trade, which were 
supposed to be in collision with each other. Sir George Grey said, before another year 
he hoped these two Societies would meet and agree upon a Bill that would suit all par¬ 
ties ; and he (Mr. Toogood) hoped, before the deputation left that day, they would make 
such avrangements that they could join hand in hand with the Pharmaceutical Society, 
and produce a Bill between them that everybody would be satisfied with. 
Mr. Harwood said he was there as the representative of the Bolton chemists and 
druggists, who, on the 7th of that month, had held a meeting and passed a resolution 
(which he read) approving of amalgamation. 
Another gentleman from Bolton endorsed what Mr. Harwood had said, adducing 
that it was the unanimous feeling of the thirty-two chemists and druggists in Bolton 
that an incorporation of the two Societies should take place as soon as possible. The 
distinction between ordinary chemists and druggists and Pharmaceutical Chemists and 
Druggists was really so fine that the matters now between them might, in his opinion, 
he very easily adjusted. He expressed the feelicgs of the Bolton Association generally 
when he said, that at this crisis some little sacrifice might be made to bring about that 
which eventually must be for the good of the trade, inasmuch as it would put the trade 
in the future upon a proper basis. 
Ml’. Hughes (of Oxford) stated that the chemists and druggists of that town were 
unanimously of the opinion that in any alteration of the law they should be not only 
eligible as members of the Pharmaceutical Society, but qualified for election on the 
Council. 
Mr. Betty asked the nature of a mandamus which he had heard it said might bo 
issued to compel the admission of an eligible person to the Society . 
The President : If a man made application to the Council to be elected a member, 
he having a right by Act of Parliament, and the Council refused to admit him to mem¬ 
bership, he might go the Court of Queen’s Bench and ask them to issue a mandamus, 
and the Council would be cited to appear at the Court to show cause why they had not 
elected him. 
Mr. Betty : Has there ever been occasion for putting that in force ? 
The President : It has never been put in force, because v/e have never given a man 
occasion ; and It hink it is fair to presume that, having elected equitably and fairly 
hitherto, we should continue so to elect—not only we, but you would be with us to elect 
as heretofore those men ivho are eligible. 
Mr. Anderson : I think the deputation are perfectly satisfied with the explanatioa. 
Now we should like to hear your views as to the constitution of the Council. 
The President : You know our suggestion—that all members should have a voice in 
the elections, but that the Council itself should be composed of Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
We have no power whatever to regulate the conduct of the trade. I wish to state that, 
because by gentlemen, not members of our Society, a misconception appears to be en¬ 
tertained on that point. 
