622 
TKANSACTIONS OP THE PHAEMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
Britain, the desirability of Pharmaceutical Chemists, and Chemists and Druggists, being 
permitted to retail, in quantities not exceeding one gallon, pure rectified spirit of wine, 
in the same manner as they are now licensed to sell methylated spirit, and to acquaint 
you, in reply, that the Board do not think it advisable to adopt the suggestion. 
I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 
G. W. Sandford, Esq. William Coebett, Secretary. 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
The Treasurer was requested to purchase £1500 Consols to this account. 
And the sum of twenty pounds was given to the widow of a late member of the 
Society, residing in Bedfordshire. 
AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, April 2Uh, 1867, 
Present—Messrs. Carteighe, Deane, Hanbury, Haselden, Hills, Ince, Morson, Orridge, 
Palmer, Kandall, Sandford, Savage, and Waugh. 
The following requisition from Members of the Society, duly signed, was considered. 
In compliance therewith Wednesday, the 15th of May, at 2 p.m., was fixed for the said 
meeting, and the Secretary was instructed to give the notice accordingly. 
To the Secretary of the Fharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.' 
We, the undersigned Members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, being 
of opinion that the proposed “ Amended Pharmacy Act,” in reference to at least the 
19th clause, will operate unfairly towards present Members, and be inimical to the 
interests of the public, do hereby request that the President of the said Society be asked 
to convene a Special General Meeting of the Members, to be held at the Society’s house 
in Bloomsbury Square, on some day between the 6th and 11th of May next, for the pur¬ 
pose of taking into consideration and the general discussion of the said Bill; and that 
the Council be requested to take no further steps with regard to the said Bill until it has 
received, either in its present or some amended form, the sanction of the Members then 
assembled. 
BOAKD OF EXAMINERS, April 17th, 1867. 
Present—Messrs. Bird, Carteighe, Cracknell, Darby, Davenport, Deane, Edwards, Gale, 
Garle, and Haselden. 
Eighteen candidates presented themselves for the Major and Minor Examinations; the 
following passed, and were duly registered;— 
MAJOR (as Pharmaceutical Chemist). 
*Thurston, Frederick .Ipswich. 
MIN OR (as Assistants). 
Bemrose, Joseph.Liverpool, 
Bishop, William Middlebrook .Worcester. 
Cooper, Henry .Nottingham. 
Churchill, Walter John.Birmingham. 
Drury, Sydney .Canterbury. 
Francis, James .Wandsworth. 
George, Edward Robert.Norwich. 
Holton, John Henry. .Lincoln. 
fKite, John Cazeneuve .Rochester. 
fPerry, William Henry .Louth. 
Porter, John Thomas .Long Sutton. 
Roberts, Harvey.Upper Clapton. 
Wade, Walter.Westminster. 
William, Thomas Howell .Ebbw Vale. 
* Passed in honours; eligible, at the end of the Session, to compete for the Pereira medal, 
t Passed in honom’s; eligible, at the end of the Session, to compete for the prize of books. 
