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macy are ignorant of some approved processes in pharmacy; 
and that even the examiners themselves are glad of the assist- 
ance of their chemical operator, in answering some questions 
on the subject put by a non-professional gentleman. 
Before concluding these preliminary remarks, it may not 
be unnecessary to state, that the apothecaries of England con- 
sit of two distinct classes of individuals, the Licentiates and 
Members. The former have no share, either in the manage- 
ment of the funds of the corporation, or in the election of 
office-bearers, the regulation of the course of study, or the exe- 
cution of the act of 1815. We wish it to be understood that 
in this article our remarks have no reference to these indi- 
viduals. 
The privileges of the members of the incorporation may be 
thus briefly stated: 1st, The Master, Wardens, Examiners and 
Treasurer are chosen from among them: 2nd, Their appren- 
tices have the advantage of attending lectures upon Materia 
Medica and Botany, and during six months of the year of go- 
ing into the country, in company with a demonstrator appoint- 
ed to instruct them in botany, refreshments being allowed 
them at their first two meetings. At the end of their appren- 
ticeship they may enter the incorporation free of expense, 
while others, must pay a fine of one hundred pounds sterling. 
This last privilege, however, seems not to be worth ^100, in- 
asmuch as no one had entered the incorporation by redemp- 
tion, for seven years previous to March 1834: 3rd, The Mas- 
ter, Wardens, Examiners, &c. have the power of regulating the 
afiairs of the society, and the course of study to be pursued by 
candidates for their license. To them also is committed the 
carrying into efiect the other provisions of the act of 1815. 
Our readers will now be in a condition to examine with us 
the evidence adduced by difierent members of the society of 
Apothecaries, who have come forward to communicate infor- 
mation to the Committee of the House of Commons, respecting 
medical education, and other matters connected with the pro- 
fession. In the remainder of this article, then, we shall con- 
sider, firsts how the public duties entrusted to the Society of 
