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EDITORIAL. 
The  Fountain  Hotel,  located  on  Camden,  near  Howard  St.,  has  been 
selected  as  the  Headquarters,  and  accommodations  have  been  secured  for 
members  and  their  families  at  a  reduced  rate. 
You  are  earnestly  requested  to  be  present  at  this  meeting,  and  to  ex- 
tend the  usefulness  of  the  Association,  by  urging  those  of  your  friends  who 
are  eligible,  to  join  in  membership.  Blanks  for  this  purpose,  with  all  the 
necessary  information,  will  be  promptly  forwarded  on  application  to  the 
undersigned  or  any  member  of  the  Executive  Committee. 
You  are  likewise  requested  to  send  and  cause  to  be  sent,  for  exhibition, 
any  Specimens  of  interest  to  the  Profession.  The  Local  Secretary,  Pro- 
fessor J.  Paris  Moore,  will  take  charge  of  all  goods  intended  for  exhibi- 
tion during  the  meeting  ;  or,  they  may  be  consigned  to  the  care  of 
Messrs.  Sharp  &  Dohme,  Cor.  Howard  and  Pratt  Sts.  Goods  intended 
for  exhibition,  ought  to  be  forwarded  free  of  charge,  during  the  first  week 
of  September,  and  be  accompanied  with  an  invoice  and  a  condensed  de- 
scription of  the  articles  sent. 
Very  respectfully, 
JOHN  M.  MAISCH, 
Permanent  Secretary,  Amer.  Pharm'l  Assoc'n. 
Philadelphta^  August  5,  1870. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain.- — The  changes  which 
have  been  going  on  in  the  policy  of  this  Society  since  the  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment granting  it  the  power  to  carry  out  that  Law  of  Registration  and 
Examination,  have  been  marked  with  some  features  that  deserve  a  notice. 
At  the  institution  of  that  Society,  or  soon  after,  Parliament  granted  the 
privilege  or  right  of  using  the  name  "pharmaceutical  chemist "  solely 
to  its  members,  as  a  distinctive  mark.  Notwithstanding  its  numerous 
membership  at  the  beginning  (over  3000)  it  represented  only  a  minority 
of  the  actual  number  of  persons  engaged  in  the  dispensing  of  drugs.  The 
educational  measures  instituted  by  the  Society  at  London  directly  and 
indirectly  through  the  influence  of  members  in  other  parts  of  the  country, 
aided  largely  by  the  wide  distribution  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal, 
raised  the  status  of  the  Society  and  gave  it  an  influence  which  was  used 
skilfully  at  times,  when  the  subject  of  a  sale  of  poisons  law  and  other 
measures  were  before  Parliament.  Meanwhile  the  large  body  of  "  chem- 
ists and  druggists"  became  affected  by  induction;  many  of  them  were 
able  men,  and  a  Journal  advocating  their  interests  was  instituted.  The 
idea  of  breaking  down  the  barrier  which  lay  between  themselves  and  the 
pharmaceutical  chemist  was  broached,  and  culminated  in  the  suggestion 
of  an  Annual  Meeting,  where  both  branches  could  meet  on  common 
ground,  and  act  in  unison  in  the  prosecution  of  scientific  inquiries  and 
professional  improvements.  The  influence  of  these  annual  gatherings 
was  most  happy,  as  well  on  the  Society  as  on  the  chemists  and  druggists  ; 
a  better  feeling  was  created,  and  when  in  1868  the  subject  of  the  sale 
of  poisons  again  agitated  Parliament,  the  Society,  greatly  aided  by  its 
President,  Mr.  Sanford,  urged  a  law  requiring  all  who  sold  poisons  to 
be  registered,  and  all  who  dispensed  medicines  as  pharmaceutists  to  be 
examined.    Those  passing  the  higher  examination  to  be  pharmaceutical 
