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tical  chemists  according  to  the  provisions  of  an  act  entitled  "  An  Act  for 
regulating  the  qualifications  of  pharmaceutical  chemists,"  shall  be  and  are 
hereby  absolutely  freed,  and  exempted  from  being  returned,  and  from 
serving  upon  any  Juries  or  Inquests  whatsoever,  and  shall  not  be  inserted 
in  the  lists  to  be  prepared  by  virtue  of  the  principal  Act  of  this  Act." 
After  being  rejected  in  the  House  of  Commons,  it  was  passed  in  the  House 
of  Lords,  the  amendment  again  rejected  by  the  Commons,  but  in  a  modified 
form  retaining  all  that  related  to  the  pharmaceutical  chemists,  it  passed  the 
Commons  on  the  31st  of  July,  to  the  great  gratification  of  the  members  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  who  in  addition  to  other  privileges  are  thus 
publicly  exempted  from  a  very  onerous  public  duty. 
But  while  the  2000  or  2500  members  of  that  Society  are  thus  exempted, 
perhaps  30,000  other  persona  under  the  name  of  chemists  and  druggists 
are  yet  subject  to  the  Jury  service.  This  public  and  legal  endorsement  of 
the  society  must  raise  its  status  yet  higher,  and  offer  a  powerful  induce- 
ment to  chemists  and  druggists  to  qualify  themselves  for  membership, 
which  is  open  to  all  who  will  undergo  the  legally  requisite  ordeal. 
The  International  Exhibition  at  London,  1862. — The  Report  of  the 
Jury  on  section  B — Medical  and  Pharmaceutical  Products  and  Processes — 
has  just  been  received  from  the  Secretary,  Mr.  Daniel  Hanbury.  The  Re- 
port is  too  long  to  republish  entire,  but  the  following  extracts  from  it  are 
offered  for  the  information  of  our  readers.  The  Jury  consisted  of  Prof. 
Von  Fehling,  of  Stuttgart,  Chairman,  Daniel  Hanbury,  of  London,  Secre- 
tary, Mr.  Morson,  Dr.  Redwood  and  Mr.  Warrington,  of  London,  Dr. 
Neligan,  of  Dublin,  Prof.  Schroetter,  of  Vienna,  Prof.  Tomasi,  of  Paris,  Prof. 
Wurtz,  and  M.  Menier,  of  Paris. 
The  report  is  in  three  sections  :  1.  Pharmaceutical  products  from  the 
mineral  kingdom,  including  preparations  like  iodoform,  chloroform,  carbolic 
acid,  alkaline  and  earthy  salts,  metals  and  metallic  salts.  These  we 
must  pass  over  for  the  present,  and  occupy  what  space  we  can  afford  with 
the  second  and  third  parts. 
2.  Pharmaceutical  Products  and  Preparations  from  the  Vegetable  Kingdom. 
a.  Vegetable  infusions,  decoctions,  and  solutions. — Numerous  specimens  of 
aqueous  infusions  and  decoctions  in  a  concentrated  form,  preserved  with  a 
minimum  amount  of  alcohol,  are  exhibited  in  the  British  section  of  the  Exhi- 
bition. Many  of  these  preparations,  which  display  considerable  pharmaceu- 
tical skill,  would  doubtless  be  found  useful  and  convenient  medicines,  but  the 
Jury  can  by  no  means  admit  that  their  employment  in  the  place  of  freshly 
made  infusions  would  be  a  desirable  innovation.  Analogous  to  the  proceed- 
ing, but  in  a  still  more  concentrated  form,  may  be  mentioned  the  preparations 
known  as  Jiuid  extracts,  a  considerable  variety  of  which  are  used  in  North 
America,  as  may  be  seen  by  examining  the  specimens  contributed  by  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  by  Mr.  W.  Saunders,  of  London,  West 
Canada.  The  only  fluid  extract  in  common  use  in  England  is  that  of  sarsa- 
parilla,  a  preparation  containing  about  half  its  weight  of  extract  of  pilular 
