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The  general  practice  of  pharmacy  seemed  to  me  to  compare 
favorably  with  that  of  any  place  I  have  visited,  although  the 
scale  of  prices  for  dispensing  is  much  too  low  to  be  remunera- 
tive, except  to  the  few  who  are  well  established.  None  of  the 
licentiates  of  Apothecaries  Hall  practice  here,  and  the  term 
apothecary  has  a  different  meaning  from  that  applied  to  it  in 
London.  The  pharmaceutical  shops  are  much  in  the  London 
style,  no  handsome  displays  in  front,  but  well  furnished  and 
complete  within. 
Leaving  Edinburgh  for  a  sojourn  among  the  Highlands,  during 
which  I  enjoyed  a  fine  opportunity  of  studying  the  character 
and  habits  of  a  large  party  of  Scotchmen,  all  bent  on  pleasure 
and  recreation,  I  found  myself  in  a  few  days  at  Glasgow. 
Besides  being  a  great  seat  of  commerce  and  manufactures,  this 
city  is  distinguished  for  its  institutions  of  learning.  Glasgow 
University  College  is  a  more  ancient  and  venerable  building 
than  that  of  Edinburgh,  and  scarcely  inferior  in  extent.  The 
only  parts  accessible  to  a  stranger  at  this  time  being  the 
Senate  Chamber,  a  long,  narrow  room,  the  stone  steps  at  the 
entrance  guarded  by  a  lion  and  unicorn,  the  walls  covered  with 
curious  and  unique  wainscoating,  and  furnished  with  cases  and 
tables  of  massive  proportions, — and  the  Hunterian  Museum, 
which  is  a  separate  building  in  the  rear  of  the  University. 
This  museum  which  is  open  to  the  public  on  the  payment  of  a 
small  fee,  embraces  an  extended  series  of  natural  history  speci- 
mens, a  fine  old  library  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  Wm.  Hunter,  a  col- 
lection of  paintings  by  old  masters,  some  statuary,  and  a  variety 
of  antiquities.  This  is  the  only  public  museum  that  I  know  of, 
frequented  by  both  sexes,  that  contains  a  complete  series  of 
anatomical  preparations,  monstrosities,  specimens  of  the  foetus 
in  utero,  and  the  numerous  objects  required  in  the  illustration 
of  a  course  of  medical  instruction ;  six  or  eight  very  large 
obstetric  manikins  were  conspicuously  displayed. 
This  University  has  recently  paid  a  deserved  compliment  to 
American  genius  in  the  appointment  of  Prof.  H.  D.  Rogers, 
to  the  chair  of  Natural  History,  though  this  distinguished 
teacher  had  not,  at  the  period  alluded  to,  entered  upon  his  duties. 
There  are  ten  professors  in  the  medical  department:  one  in  theo- 
logy eight  in  literature  and  philosophy.  Of  these,  only  two  were 
