MEETING OF CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
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“ That as to the system of examination specified in the 2nd and 3rd Clauses to the 
effect— 
‘That the examination for ‘Pharmaceutical Chemists ’should be, as heretofore, 
that which is known as the Major Examination of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
‘The examination for ‘Chemists and Druggists’ should be that which is known 
as the ‘ Minor Examination,’ and to Avhich persons hitherto registered as ‘ Assistants ’ 
have been subjected,’— 
This meeting takes no exception to it.” 
lie attended the meeting as a delegate representing the Hull chemists and 
druggists, although he was a London chemist and druggist. They required 
to he placed on the same equality as unexamined members of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society. 
Mr. Buott, juu., in seconding the resolution, said he was not a chemist 
and druggist, but he stood before them as a friend of the trade, from his past 
associations, and also as a delegate representing seventy members of the 
trade, carrying on business at Hull, Thej’’ were the representatives of a 
large district association, and they had deputed him and Mr. Yeates to repre¬ 
sent, on that occasion, their unanimous views on this question. If there was 
a division of opinion here, there was none at Birmingham, Manchester, Liver¬ 
pool, Sheffield, and Hull. There had been meetings of the trade in those 
great centres of industry, and they were unanimously of opinion that there 
should be equality of government and representation. They had to consider 
what the Pharmaceutical Society offered to the trade, and what the latter 
required. The members of the United Society had no desire to enter into 
personalities, and there was an abnegation, on their part, of any ulterior 
views. They took no exception to what was suggested by the Pharmaceuiical 
Society in' the first two resolutions, the only difference being on the third. 
By that resolution they said that the government, which consisted of the 
Council under the present charter, should be continued and confined entirely 
to Pharmaceutical Chemists. He felt he was treading on tender ground in 
referring to certain transactions, but the emergency of the question must be 
his excuse. They knew that the majority of the members of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society were unexamined chemists standing in no social position 
superior to those outside. Yet the Pharmaceutical Society wished to put 
chemists and druggists in an inferior position to the unexamined members of 
that Society,—in other words, that the government of the Society should be 
nominated and elected by their own class. Had they shown themselves such 
a liberal class as to be able to place implicit confidence in them ? He thought 
not, for the history of the Society showed that they had made a scramble for 
special privileges as was shown in the Jury Bill, thereby throwing away 
a splendid opportunity of conciliating the outsiders, and putting the tiade on 
an equal footing. The Pharmaceutical Society were not to blame so long as 
they kept to their stand-point of view, and did not go beyond it. They %vero 
a highly respectable body of men, and the outside feeling was rig]it in view¬ 
ing that Society as a select club ; but when they proposed to go to Parliament 
and claim to be the representatives of the whole trade, could it be said they 
fairly represented the Avants of the outsiders ? Wore they showing it by stipu¬ 
lating as a condition for amalgamation that no member of the Council should 
be chosen from the outsiders, but that it should always be confined to mem¬ 
bers of the Pharmaceutical Society ? He appealed to every one of the trade 
wffiether that Avas right. It Avas true the Pharmaceutical Society, as they 
said, had borne the heat and battle of the day; they had accumulated funds, 
spent money, and been in the viin, but latterly only in their own interest, 
and not for the objects laid clown by their founder. His object Avas to eleAmte 
the commercial aiid scientific status of the whole body AAuthout reference to 
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