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PHARMACEUTICAL LEGISLATION. 
That the schedule of poisons may be amended from time to time by the addi¬ 
tion of such articles as the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society and the 
General Medical Council may deem it right, and obtain the consent of a 
Secretary of State to add thereto. 
Exemptions as to the sale of poisons are provided for wholesale dealers and 
others, but all persons shall be liable to penalty who send out poisons without 
proper labels. 
All persons passing the Minor Examination of the Pharmaceutical Society 
shall be registered as Chemists and Druggists ; all persons already in business, 
all assistants of full age, and apprentices under articles of indenture, may, on 
application within a given time, be registered as Chemists and Druggists. The 
registration of the three latter classes, who have already a vested interest in the 
trade, will be entirely optional, and their declining it will in no way prevent 
their carrying on business as heretofore. 
All persons on the register of Chemists and Druggists, being in business on 
their own account, will be eligible for election to membership of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society, subject to the Bye-laws thereof. 
Chemists and Druggists already in business, who choose to register and 
become members of the Society by virtue of that registration, may be elected 
members of Council, but the Council shall never at any one time contain more 
than seven members who are not on the register of Pharmaceutical Chemists. 
The title of Pharmaceutical Chemist is to be held only by those already in 
possession thereof, and those who may hereafter pass the Major Examination. 
All registered Chemists and Druggists are to be exempt from serving on 
juries. 
The Registrar is to keep a correct register and publish it annually. 
At all elections of the Society (i. e. elections of Council) members may vote 
either personally or by transmitting their voting papers to the Secretary one 
clear day prior to the election. 
Lastly, it is provided, that instead of confining relief from the Benevolent 
Fund to Members and Associates of the Society or their widows and orphans, 
as heretofore, it shall be lawful to extend it to any person who is, or ever has 
been, on the register of Pharmaceutical Chemists or Chemists and Druggists. 
Such then are the provisions agreed to. There may still be diversity of opi¬ 
nion as to the wisdom of the concessions made by the Council, and indeed some 
of our correspondents seem to feel that the interests of examined men and foun¬ 
ders of the Pharmaceutical Society have been sacrificed, and their titles not 
properly protected; but we think these gentlemen forget how often in public 
meeting assembled, once in a meeting called expressly to consider the special 
subject, the Council were empowered—nay even instructed—by the members 
generally to act liberally to the outsiders, if by so doing one great object of the 
Society, namely, the compulsory examination of future Chemists and Druggists, 
could be attained. We think too they overlook the fact that the one title pro¬ 
tected by law at present, and becoming understood by the public, is the title 
of Pharmaceutical Chemist. “ Pharmaceutical Chemist ’’and “ Chemist and 
Druggist ” will, we hope, hereafter be the two titles in use among us. It is by 
those we shall be empowered to perform certain acts, and exempted from certain 
annoyances. It may not be in our time, but we believe it will hereafter happen 
that nine-tenths of those who practise Pharmacy in Great Britain will deem it 
ft point of honour to attain the higher appellation. 
