298 PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OP GREAT BRITAIN. 
execution of his Indentures, passed an examination in Classical Educa- 
tion. The said examinations and the registration of indentures shall be 
subject to the payment of such fees, and the granting of such certificates, 
as the Council may, from time to time, determine. But all present As- 
sistants and Apprentices, who shall be registered before the above date, 
shall be exempted from the above restrictions, and shall be eligible as 
original Members, when they shall have commenced business on their 
own account. 
It shall also be in the power and discretion of the Council to admit as 
Members, without Examination, after the above period (upon the pay- 
ment of an entrance fee) such chemists and druggists as have been actu- 
ally in business on their own account, prior to the above date, but who 
may have neglected to become Members." 
The government of the Society to be vested in a Council, 
elected at the general meeting of the Society which is to be 
held annually. There is also a benevolent^fund to be provid- 
ed by specific subscription. From the Report of the Com- 
mittee appointed to draw up the Constitution, we make the 
following extracts, 
" The influence which chemists and druggists possess as a body when 
their efforts are combined, has been demonstrated in' a manner which af- 
fords every encouragement to perseverance. It is equally manifest that if 
they relax in their exertions, or allow any minor consideration to interfere 
with the zealous and harmonious performance of the duty which they 
owe to themselves, they will inevitably sacrifice their independence, and 
be deprived of many of their existing privileges, by becoming subject to 
extraneous jurisdiction. It must be recollected that the Society is of a 
public nature, and involves the prosperity of chemists and druggists as a 
body throughout the kingdom. It is only by the combined and continued 
efforts of individuals that a scheme so comprehensive and laborious can 
be effected ; and these efforts to be successful, must be supported by all 
those^who are interested in its accomplishment." 
" To chemists and druggists now established, this Society offers the 
means'of extending Pharmaceutical knowledge by the establishment of a 
recognized medium through which discoveries and improvements may be 
promulgated ; whilst the institution of a School of Pharmacy — the de- 
velopement of scientific acquirements, and the exhibition of existing talent, 
will tend to confirm the confidence of the public, and remove our appa- 
rent deficiency as Pharmacopolists, when compared with other nations." 
" The establishment of an examination in the Classics, for all future 
