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mist,” and that title by the new Bill is preserved inviolate for its present 
possessors, and men who may hereafter gain it by passing the highest examina¬ 
tion. The assertion that the public will never know the difference between 
“ Pharmaceutical Chemist ” and “ Member of the Pharmaceutical Society ” we 
take to be an insult on the public understanding. 
On the whole, it was right and proper tliat this Special Meeting should be 
held. It might be true, as one of the speakers observed, that the Council had 
been urged on to the present concession by the Meeting of 1864, but many of 
the members appear to have forgotten that, and now the concession may be con¬ 
sidered as definitively settled by the tribunal to which those who disapproved 
referred it for a decision. 
There seems to be one great misunderstanding as to the effect of Mr. INI. Car- 
teighe’s resolution, submitted immediately after Mr. Collins’s amendment had 
been accepted. It has been asserted that assistants and apprentices will lose 
their vested interests in the trade in the event of the Bill becoming law. This 
is an entire mistake. They may enjoy the present rights of Chemists and 
Druggists to the end of their lives. But, as it was urged that their admission 
to Membership of the Society would delay the perfecting of the institution for 
another generation, the meeting agreed to make them eligible only to be elected 
as Associates. To Apprentices, at least, we believe this will be a positive 
benefit, for it is not always the greatest kindness to a boy to allow him to rest 
on his oars while his fellow-students are working to surpass him; indeed, the 
introduction of Apprentices to the exempting clause of the Bill has always 
seemed to us an error. 
TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY. 
AT A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, May \st, 1867, 
Present—Messrs. Bird, Bottle, Brady, Carteighe, Deane, Edwards, Evans, Hanbury, 
Hills, Ince, Palmer, Kandall, Sandford, Squire, and Waugh, 
The following were elected MEIMBERS— 
Horton, Arthur Thomas .Liverpool. 
Sharp, David Blakey.Sunderland. 
Edward Pratt, of Barnstaple, having paid his arrears and subscription for the current 
year, was restored to Membership. 
Resolved, That free Laboratory instruction be given to the Jacob Bell Scholars for the 
Session 1867-68. 
BENEVOLENT FUND. 
The sum of Five Pounds was granted to a distressed Member of the Society, late at 
Manchester, and the sum of Ten Pounds was granted to the wife of a Member, late at 
Cheltenham. 
The Treasurer was requested to purchase £250 Consols, making the sum invested 
£9000. 
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL, May im, 1867, ' • 
Present—Messrs. Bottle, Carteighe, Deane, Edwards, Hanbury, Haselden, Hills, Ince, 
Morson, Orridge, Palmer, Randall, Sandford, Savage, Squire, Standring, and Waugh, 
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