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other society. This observation was met with loud cries of ‘ order/ and a 
call for the retraction of the words “Drug Society." He declined to do so 
•or to sit down until he had made his statement. He stood on his privilege 
to speak, and in the confusion that existed he appeared to urge that no good 
could result from an amalgamation with the clique which he designated the 
Pharmaceutical Society. He urged that a national school of pharmacy should 
be established under the aegis of Government, which was received with much 
laughter. At last he gave way to the repeated demands of the meeting, and 
sat down. 
Messrs. Hudson, Hornby, and Huddleston attended- as a deputation 
from Sheffield, and addressed the meeting, urging similar reasons to those 
expressed by Mr. Buott against the third resolution, and stating the deter¬ 
mination of the Sheffield chemists and druggists never to assent to it. 
Mr. Heppell said he had received a communication from a member of the 
Pharmaceutical Council, from which it would appear that the Council had no 
power to reject any one applying to be a member. The only rejection that 
had taken place, the communication stated, was in the case of a person who 
had been mixed up in a charge of felony. That, Mr. Heppell said, would 
show that the power of rejection existed in the Council. 
Mr. Buott, jun., said there was no doubt the Council had the power of 
rejection, but they had no doubt thought it good policy not to enforce it ex¬ 
cept in the one case alluded to. They had the power, and they proposed to 
retain it. The question was whether the Pharmaceutical Society should re¬ 
tain such a dangerous principle. 
The President said he should be happy to hear any remarks from a Phar¬ 
maceutical Chemist if there was one present. The meeting was convened 
for the whole body of chemists and druggists. 
Mr. Wade said he had hoped some member of the Pharmaceutical Society 
would have been present and have offered to the meeting some remarks in sup¬ 
port of the proposed Bill. The meeting ought not to separate without express¬ 
ing their opinion ot the feeling of the outsiders in relation to this matter. He 
believed they were present not for the purpose of contesting the point as to 
which was the best Society, or which was right or which was wrong, but 
which was the best way to frame an Act of Incorporation so as to form them 
all into one bod_y, and so bring the trade into unity. Up to that time they 
had not accomplished that desirable object, but it was hoped that might be 
done by the passing of this and the other resolutions. The trade itself, if 
not the United Society, was determined that an Act of Incorporation should 
be obtained this year, and the trade united into one body. Now, with regard 
to the power of rejection, he was of opinion that every respectable society 
should have the power of refusing to admit to membership a man of known 
bad character ; but in the case of a respectable registered chemist and drug¬ 
gist, he felt sure the Pharmaceutical Society would not attempt it, because 
their determination in such a case could be put aside by mandamus. Now 
with regard to the question in dispute he thought they would never arrive at 
a satisfactory solution of the difficulty by meeting in public only and discuss¬ 
ing it, and therefore he was glad to find there was a resolution to be pro¬ 
posed for the appointment of a deputation to wait on the Pharmaceutical 
Society in respect to this question. He hailed that motion with pleasure, 
because he thought more good would result from a dozen men sitting round 
a table and quietly discussing the points in dispute than could be done in a 
public meeting. No doubt there were many who concurred in opinion with 
the Sheffield and other northern chemists ; but then there were others of a 
different opinion, and who, no doubt, would support the Pharmaceutical 
Society; and he held in his hand a resolution passed by the Bath Chemists 
