that “All we ask is to be allowed the same opportunities for study, the same field for competition and the same honours, if justly won.” Permission for women to work in the labs was granted in 1877 after Minshull and Stammwitz had passed the PSGB Minor examination, the two of them achieving the top two places in the chemistry exam. Minshull registered as a Chemist & Druggist on 18 October 1877. She passed the higher Major examination and registered as a Pharmaceutical Chemist on 19 February 1879, having been prevented by her mother's death from taking the exam alongside Stammwitz in 1878. After years of drawn-out debate over women's place within the PSGB during the 1870s, Hampson's motion to admit women to full PSGB membership was finally carried at the Council meeting on 1 October 1879, with only one vote in opposition. Rose Minshull and Isabella Clarke were elected members of the Society. They had both passed the Society's Preliminary, Minor and Major exams. They made repeated applications for membership from 1875 onwards and in spite of Robert Hampson's campaign, the conclusion was apparently reached by some Council members "to avoid further agitation", rather than through a comprehensive belief in equal rights. Professional life In 1881, aged 36, Rose was still living with her widower father, her sister Flora who was now working as a dispenser, and a servant. After her father's death in 1884, Rose and Flora continued to live together, but during that year Rose changed her address in the PSGB Register to North Eastern Hospital for Children, Goldsmith Row, Hackney Road, London, where she worked as the Dispenser. She was well aware that women working in this position were judged differently from men, writing “Of course she must know her work thoroughly, for she will find it to be more sharply criticised than a man’s would be in the same position, keep well posted up in the current pharmaceutical literature, so as to have at her fingers’ ends, when applied to, all that related to new remedies..." However she wrote in an article for The Chemist and Druggist: “As the result of many years’ hospital work, I am decidedly of the opinion that certainly in women's and children's hospitals a lady dispenser is the right woman in the right place.” In 1899, her sister Flora, aged 52, achieved a dispensing qualification, when she took the Apothecaries’ Assistant's