PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
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JACOB BELL SCHOLARSHIPS. 
The V ice-President said lie liad great pleasure in announcing tlie award of 
a Junior Bell Scholarship to Mr. John Watts. As no competitor had appeared 
for the Senior Scholarship, the Council had taken into consideration the merits 
of Mr. Pasmore’s answers in the examination, and had awarded him also a 
Junior Scholarship. He wished both the scholars hearty success in their future 
studies. 
Dr. Edwards, as one of the Board of Examiners, had great pleasure in saying 
a few words on the Bell Scholarships. The Professors had evinced great plea¬ 
sure in the discharge of their duties, and he, in referring to the Bell Scholar¬ 
ships, could not omit saying a word on the man for whom they had been instituted 
as a memorial, and whose bust, beautifully executed by Mr. Butler, was before 
them, as a generous present from their Vice-President. The memory of Jacob 
Bell would be regarded with feelings of reverence as long as the Society existed 
lie was the founder of a co-partnership which had sent men abroad in all direc¬ 
tions to sow the seeds of progress. His memory was not confined within those 
walls, it existed also in the hearts of those who had sprung up from the seed 
which he had sown all over the country ; and if they wanted to see the green 
spring-blade which indicated hope of the corning harvest, they must go to where 
Jacob Bell had been, to the spots where he had sowm the seed, and see what a 
promise of future fruit had arisen, lie had lately visited Newcastle for the pur¬ 
pose of being present at the Pharmaceutical Conference. And in reference to 
this he would say that the idea of Jacob Bell as regarded progress was not con¬ 
fined to the success of the School of Pharmacy, but it also extended to the rais¬ 
ing of the body of Pharmaceutists as a class. They could not make all their 
body metropolitan, but they must go forth and find their brethren in their own 
districts, and welcome them. A few of Jacob Bell’s old friends met at New¬ 
castle during the sitting of the British Association, to follow up his work. 
They met where he had gone years ago to speak words of kindness to country 
druggists, and where the seeds then sown were beginning to spring up. This 
conference was itself an affecting memorial of Mr. Bell, for his life had been 
spent in the same object for which they had then met together. lie (Dr. Ed¬ 
wards) was led to count the number of miles the members had travelled who 
had attended the Pharmaceutical Conference, and he found that it amounted to 
nearly 5000 miles going and returning, in addition to which was the cost of 
leaving business and travelling. The Conference was a great attraction, but he 
trusted that all w T ho had met there, met, not for political, not for trade interest, 
but for the advancement of knowledge. The men who had met together were 
the sons of the Society, and but for the journeys of Mr. Bell they would never 
have met at all. 
The Council had with the largest liberality interpreted the endowment of the 
Bell Scholarships. Men w r ere not always ready to prosecute their studies beyond 
a certain point; there were difficulties of age and circumstances, and oftentimes 
men were about to commence business, so that there w r as less demand for the 
Senior than for the Junior Scholarships, which w r ere awarded to younger men, 
who had more time before them. The Council had therefore determined to con¬ 
fer (if sufficient number of qualified candidates presented) two Junior Scholar¬ 
ships, when no competent candidates offered for the senior. He hoped the gen¬ 
tlemen who had gained the Scholarships, and all who were present, would be 
deeply imbued with the spirit of the late Mr. Bell. He invited them not to be 
content with reading the current numbers of the 1 Pharmaceutical Journal,’ but 
its earlier ones also. They deserved perusal and reperusal. They would read 
there what Pereira had done. They would also find there masterly articl. s by 
the editor, on education, and all matters affecting the interests and welfare of 
