12 PRESENT STATE OF PHARMACY IN ENGLAND. 
The constitution acknowledged as members : 
1st. Chemists and druggists who are, or have been, 
established on their own account, and who shall subscribe 
the sum of two guineas annually. 
2d. Confidential superintendents, who shall be elected 
by the council, and who shall severally subscribe the sum 
of two guineas annually. 
3d. Honorary members, comprising medical and other 
scientific men, who are distinguished in branches of know- 
ledge allied to pharmacy. 
4th. Associates, who shall pay one guinea, and enjoy all 
the benefits except presence at general meetings and hold- 
ing office. 
5th. Apprentices, who, by paying one guinea annually, 
shall have the privileges of associates."^ 
The educational objects of the Society were declared to 
be an elementary classical education — medical botany, 
chemistry, materia medica and pharmacy. 
After the 1st of July, 1842, no person was to be admit- 
ted as a member or associate without having passed an 
examination in the above branches of knowledge, and no 
apprentice should be entitled to the privileges of an asso- 
ciate without having passed an examination in classical 
learning before his indentures were executed. 
It will appear from this statement, that all were invited 
to enter the association who would contribute to its sup- 
port. It is presumable that the original members include 
a great number of very ordinary pharmaceutists; but, by 
joining the society they are in its favor, and not against it; 
they contribute to its support, and as the Journal is distri- 
buted to every member without separate charge, it follows 
that each of these inferiorly qualified members has thrust 
on him, as it were, all the benefits desirable from so excel- 
lent a periodical, communicating monthly the latest discove- 
ries and improvements. 
By the financial report to the annual meeting in 1842, it 
