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SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JACOB BELL. 



(Late President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.) 



IN the history of Pharmacy in Great Britain the name of 1859. 

 Jacob Bell will always occupy a conspicuous and honourable 

 position. With the earliest efforts to found a Pharmaceutical 

 Society in this country, and their ultimate success, with the 

 difficulties that the new Society encountered by the defection of 

 many of its early supporters, with the dangers that arose from 

 internal dissensions and from legislative interference, his name 

 will always be intimately associated. 



The removal by death of one to whom more than to any 

 other the pharmacists of this country stand indebted, and by 

 whom in a pre-eminent degree the progress of Pharmacy in 

 Great Britain has been advanced, is an epoch in the history 

 of the Pharmaceutical Society; and the desire will naturally 

 arise in the minds of its members to become acquainted 

 with some of the incidents in the life of one who has been 

 so closely connected with it from its formation to the present 

 time. 



Jacob Bell was the eldest surviving son of John Bell, and 

 was born in Oxford Street, in the parish of St. James's, West- 

 minster, on the 5th March, 1810. 



The elder Mr. Bell, who was a man of the utmost integrity John Bell, 

 and benevolence, was a member of the Society of Friends, and 

 most conscientiously desirous of bringing up his children in 

 conformity with the views held by that section of the Christian 

 Church. In the year 1798 he commenced business in Oxford 

 Street, and by his diligent application and unswerving upright- 

 ness laid the foundation of the important pharmaceutical 

 establishment with which his name is still associated. After 

 his death, which took place in the year 1849, a short but 



