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YOPvK chemists’ association. 
Mr. J. Browjt,- the Honorary Secretary, read the annual report, which was approved 
and adopted, and ordered to be entered upon the Society’s minutes. 
The balance sheet and accounts, which were produced by the Treasurer, Mr. Thomas 
Cooper, were audited and found correct, showing a balance of £6. 8s. lie?, in his hands, 
to be carried over to the account of the current year. 
Votes of thanks to the Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, Auditors, and Committee, 
w-ere passed unanimously, and duly acknowledged; and the committee and officials for 
the ensuing year were re-appointed, and the annual dinner agreed to be held at the 
King’s Arms Hotel on Tuesday, the 26th inst.J 
The ordinary routine business being concluded, Mr. J. Bro'WN said that the members 
of the Society were doubtless a^Yare that the Pharmaceutical Council had made certain 
propositions for an amended Pharmacy Bill, which were of a more liberal nature than 
the Bill they had before Parliament two years ago, and which, he thought, might be 
made acceptable to the United Society and outsiders by a little more timely concession. 
The rejected Bill of two years ago contained a clause for the compulsory registration of 
chemists in business, and charged a guinea for such registration; the present proposi¬ 
tions made registration optional, and did not name any fee. The most important pro¬ 
visions, however, were those contained in number 4, and which admitted all existing 
chemists to the right of membership of the Pharmaceutical Society as chemists and 
druggists, on being elected by the Council, and paying the same annual subscription as 
Pharmaceutical Chemists, giving them the right of voting on the election of the Council, 
but excluding them from the right of being nominated on the Council themselves. He 
cared nothing for the name of Pharmaceutical Chemist, as a distinction of that kind in 
York carried no weight with it whatever; but he maintuined it was the interest of the 
Pharmaceutical Society to give equal rights to all existing chemists, and offer such 
inducements as would combine them together for the procurement of a Bill of Incorpo¬ 
ration, and so do away with the jealousy and dissension that has so long existed. It 
also appeared that the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society a short time ago had an 
interview with Mr. Walpole, the Home Secretary, doubtless with the view of inducing 
him to bring in a Bill founded on those propositions, or at all events to persuade him to 
support one introduced by themselves. Since then there had been a meeting of chemists 
in London, not connected with the Pharmaceutical Society, and the result had been the 
appointment of a deputation to meet the Council of that Society to confer and agree if 
possible upon the provisions of the proposed Bill, and which conference would take place 
on the 19th instant, when it was to be hoped a satisfactory settlement might be come 
to. In order, however, to induce the Pharmaceutical Council to meet the views of the 
York Association in the spirit of justice and conciliation, he had drawn up a resolution, 
which embodied those views, and which he had no doubt would meet with the approba¬ 
tion of those present, both pharmaceutists and chemists and druggists; but, before reading 
the resolution, he might say that .the action of the York and kindred societies must have 
had considerable influence on intended legislation, as the Pharmaceutical and United 
Societies had gradually come round to adopt many of the views that were originally 
adopted and advocated by the York Association. Mr. Brown then proposed the following 
resolution:— 
“ That the York Chemists’ Association hails with the greatest satisfaction the new 
proposals of the Pharmaceutical Council for an amended Pharmacy Bill for the Incorpo¬ 
ration of the Trade, and would support such a measure in Parliament, providing greater 
liberality is shown to non-pharmaceutists, by the admission of chemists and druggists at 
present in business to equal rights and privileges with the unexamined members of the 
Pharmaceutical Society.” 
Mr. Cooper said that he entirely coincided with the views then expressed by Mr. 
Brown; and as a member of the Pharmaceutical Society he had long been of opinion 
that the only way to procure an amended Bill was by opening the Society freely to 
chemists and druggists already in business; and he felt convinced the resolution now 
proposed was one in the right direction, and he had great pleasure in most cordially 
seconding it. 
Messrs. Bulmer, Bowman, Wilson, and the Chairman expressed themselves in the 
same favourable terms, and the resolution was unanimously agreed to; and it was 
ordered to be forwarded immediately to the Pharmaceutical Council and the Committee 
of the United Society of Chemists and Druggists for their consideration. 
