The Pharmaceutical Society: Honorary Members

Abstract

IT will be gratifying to medical circles in India to learn that Colonel Ram Nath Chopra, head of the Faculty of Pharmacology in the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, has been elected an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. This distinction is conferred upon a very limited number of scientific workers, the list of honorary members being not more than twenty-five at the present time. Colonel Chopra has been, and still is, an earnest worker in the cause of reform of the drug trade in India; it was upon the recommendations of the Drugs Enquiry Committee, of which he was chairman, that the Indian Drug Bill, the provisions of which measure were commented upon in a recent issue of NATURE (May 4, p. 716), were based. At the May meeting of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society at which the election took place, two other names were also added to the list of honorary members: Sir Ernley Blackwell, who was chairman of the Society's Statutory Committee during 1934-1939, and Sir William Willcox, the Visitor for the Privy Council to the Society's Examinations.