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as  in  many  respects  they  are  very  similar.  In  the  St.  Louis  School,  how- 
ever, they  are  in  advance  of  us,  having  a  chair  of  Botany — a  feature  not 
yet  adopted  into  our  School.  The  greater  tendency  to  the  use  of  vegetable 
remedies  in  the  West,  and  the  great  variety  of  valuable  indigenous  plants 
that  are  found  all  over  the  country,  render  this  Chair  especially  important. 
We  hope  Prof.  Wadgymar  will  have  a  good  class  this  season,  and  realize 
for  the  School  and  for  himself  substantial  advantages. 
The  British  Medical  Council,  the  Pharmacy  Bills,  and  the  British 
Pharmacopoeia. — Many  of  our  readers  are  aware  that  for  some  time  past 
the  Chemists  and  Druggists  of  England  and  Wales  on  the  one  hand,  and 
the  Council  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain  on  the  other, 
have  originated  Parliamentary  Bills  for  the  better  regulation  of  pharmacy, 
so  as  to  register  all  persons  who  shall  engage  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy 
after  January  1,  1866,  intended  to  include  that  numerous  class  of  dispensers 
who  are  outside  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society.  Pending  the  consideration 
of  these  Bills  by  the  Committee  of  Parliament  having  them  in  charge,  the 
attention  of  the  Medical  Council  has  been  attracted  to  the  subject,  and,  at 
their  meeting  held  April  7th,  appointed  a  committee,  of  which  Dr.  Henry  W. 
Acland  was  Chairman.  The  committee,  after  considering  both  bills,  pre- 
fers the  mode  of  action  suggested  in  the  bill  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society, 
as  best  calculated  to  attain  the  end  in  view, — viz.,  "  to  form  a  Register  of 
legally  qualified  pharmaceutical  chemists  ;  to  prohibit  the  use  of  certain 
pharmaceutic  titles  by  persons  not  on  the  register ;  to  confine  to  those 
registered  the  privilege. of  executing  the  prescriptions  of  medical  practition- 
ers, subject  to  the  provisions  hereinafter  named  ;  but  not  to  restrict  the 
sale  of  medicines  asked  for  in  any  other  manner." 
The  Committee  suggest  certain  additions  to  the  Pharmacy  Bill :  1.  That 
it  should  apply  to  Ireland  also  ;  2,  that  it  should  be  rendered  imperative  on 
pharmaceutists  to  follow  the  British  Pharmacopoeia  in  compounding  pre- 
scriptions, unless  otherwise  directed  by  the  prescriber  ;  3,  they  think  the 
terms  of  registration  too  easy  ;  4,  they  advise  that  a  clause  should  be  in- 
serted in  the  bill  prohibiting  pharmaceutists  of  all  grades  from  practising 
medicine  or  surgery,  or  any  branch  of  medicine  or  surgery. 
At  the  meeting  of  the  Medical  Council,  April  13th,  an  extended  dis- 
cussion followed  the  reading  of  a  resolution  by  Dr.  Corrigan,  to  cause  to 
be  inserted  in  the  Pharmacy  Bill  a  clause  to  render  it  imperative  on  dis- 
pensers to  follow  the  British  Pharmacopoeia,  unless  specially  otherwise 
directed,  which,  in  a  modified  form,  the  Council  adopted  so  far  as  to  send 
such  recommendation  to  the  Secretary  of  State. 
On  the  15th  of  April,  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee  reported  to  the 
Medical  Council  as  follows  : 
"  The  Pharmacopoeia  Committee  beg  to  report,  that  after  much  careful 
consideration  they  requested  Mr.  Warrington,  of  the  Apothecaries'  Hall, 
and  Dr.  Redwood,  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  to  undertake  the  prepa- 
