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THE 
AMERICAN  JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
MARCH,  1859. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  NOTES  OF  TRAVEL. 
By  Edward  Parrish. 
(Continued  from  page  17 .) 
Having  at  the  close  of  the  previous  essay  taken  leave  of  the 
Manchester  pharmaceutical  establishments  and  chemical  works, 
I  proceed  to  remark  upon  the  general  character  of  the  shops  in 
some  of  the  other  towns.  Those  in  Oxford  and  Leamington  were 
noticed  as  particularly  elegant,  rich  mahogany  fittings  and  plate- 
glass  windows  and  show-cases  giving  them  a  fine  finish.  At 
Chester,  amid  the  ancient  buildings  of  that  unique  old  town,  I 
noticed  several  very  handsome  pharmaceutical  shops,  one  in 
particular,  in  which  the  appropriate  arrangement  of  mirrors  gave 
a  great  apparent  increase  of  length  to  the  room  ;  the  shops  are 
generally  in  the  second  stories  of  the  buildings  fronting  on  bal- 
conies which  extend  along  perhaps  the  whole  length  of  a  street. 
To  the  unaccustomed  eye  the  contrast  is  most  strange,  of  costly 
mirrors,  beautiful  carved  oak  shop-furniture  and  commodious 
arrangements  for  dispensing,  with  ancient  dwellings  and  places 
of  business,  in  which  all  the  necessary  repairs  are  not  permitted 
to  interfere  with  the  prevailing  unique  and  antiquated  appear- 
ance. 
In  Liverpool  some  fine  shops  were  also  noticed.  That  of  Clay 
&  Abrams,  Bold  street,  is  one  of  the  best  conducted  and  largest ; 
it  has  besides  the  ordinary  arrangements  for  compounding  and 
dispensing  medicines,  a  set  of  vacuum  pans  for  the  evaporation 
of  solutions  at  low  temperatures. 
Through  the  kindness  of  a  member  of  this  firm,  T  had  an 
opportunity  of  spending  an  hour  pleasantly  and  profitably  in 
the  Museum  of  the  Liverpool  Chemical  Society,  located  in  a 
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