PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
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monthly journal, instituted to advocate its formation, and pub- 
lish its proceedings. The first is a report from a committee, 
consisting of the leading London chemists and druggists, of 
which Joseph Gifford was chairman, to a general meeting of 
the trade, recommending their organization as a professional 
body, and the establishment of an institution to promote the 
improvement of pharmacy, and maintain the interests of 
the chemists and druggists of Great Britain. 
After detailing their successful opposition to Mr. Hawes' 
bill, the committee say : 
" In the progress of their proceedings your Committee ascertained 
that the College of Physicians, the College of Surgeons, and the Apothe- 
caries' Company had conjointly proposed obtaining some legislative enact- 
ment, by which the chemists and druggists were to be, for the future, 
placed under the government and control of these learned bodies, more 
especially of the Society of Apothecaries. 
A deputation from your Committee, therefore, sought and obtained an 
interview with the College of Physicians and the College of Surgeons, 
respectively, and received from the former an official notification that it 
was their intention to introduce into their proposed measure of medical re- 
form, a provision by which the chemists and druggists should thenceforth 
be placed under some legislative control ; and your Committee have, 
therefore, again assembled you for the purpose of receiving new instruc- 
tions and enlarged powers to meet present and future circumstances. 
Your Committee having considered the subject, are of opinion that the 
chemists and druggists are capable of self-government ; they, therefore, 
recommend that ^the chemists and druggists of the Empire should im- 
mediately form themselves into a permanent Association, to be denomi- 
nated the " Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain," having for 
its object the union of the members of the trade into one body — the pro- 
tection of the general interests — and the improvement and advancement of 
scientific knowledge. As the basis of such union, your Committee 
would recommend the adoption of Education, Examination, Registration, 
and Representation as involving beneficial results to the Public in gene- 
ral, and to the chemists and druggists in particular; and offering to the 
existing medical corporations, and to the medical profession at large, a 
guarantee, that whilst the chemists and druggists are anxious to retain 
their present privileges, they are disposed to afford every public evidence 
of their fitness to exercise them." 
The proposition of the Committee was adopted, and the 
meeting forthwith organized themselves into a Society, of 
