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report  and  evil  report,  under  all  circumstances  that  have  occurred  to  retard 
or  annoy  its  progress,  Jacob  Bell  has  always  been  at  his  post,  and  always 
equal  to  the  emergency.  He  had  the  satisfaction  of  living  to  see  the 
Society  highly  prosperous  and  firmly  established,  and  the  internal  jealous- 
ies, which  at  one  time  threatened  to  rend  it  in  twain,  to  disappear.  It  is 
pleasant  to  find  that  he  was  appreciated  whilst  he  lived,  and  from  Aber- 
deen to  Plymoutli  the  members  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  remember 
him  with  love  and  respect. 
At  the  meeting  of  the  Council,  held  July  6th,  1859,  after  an  expression 
of  grateful  remembrance  of  the  services  of  Jacob  Bell,  it  was 
"Resolved,  That  a  Committee  be  appointed  to  take  the  requisite  steps 
for  forming  a  Capital  Fund,  out  of  which  one  or  more  Scholarships,  bear- 
ing the  name  of  Jacob  Bell,  may  be  established  in  connection  with  the 
Society."    A  committee  was  appointed  to  carry  it  out. 
On  the  same  occasion,  the  Council  were  advised  of  the  following  ex- 
tract from  the  will  of  the  late  President : 
"I  give  and  bequeath  the  sum  of  two  thousand  pounds  [$10,000] 
to  the  Trustees  for  the  time  being  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great 
Britain,  which  two  thousand  pounds  are  to  be  paid  exclusively  and  in 
priority  to  other  legacies,  out  of  such  part  of  my  personal  estate  as  is  by 
law  applicable  to  such  payment,  and  to  be  expended  in  establishing  or 
otherwise  increasing  the  efficiency  of  a  School  of  Pharmacy,  or  in  promot- 
ing pharmaceutical  education,  in  such  manner  as  the  Council  of  the  said 
Society  may  deem  expedient,  but  so  that  the  receipts  of  the  Trustees  shall 
be  good  discharges  to  my  executors." 
The  Council,  by  resolution,  pledged  themselves  to  carry  out  the  ex- 
pressed wishes  of  the  testator  to  the  best  of  their  ability. 
At  the  same  meeting  an  election  was  held  to  fill  the  vacant  President- 
ship ;  whereupon  it  was  declared  that  Mr.  T.  N.  R.  Morson  was  duly 
elected  to  that  office.  At  the  meeting  held  on  the  20th  of  July,  Mr.  Peter 
Squire  was  elected  to  fill  the  Vice-Presidency  rendered  vacant  by  the 
election  of  Mr.  Morson. 
The  Adulteration  of  Cream  or  Tartar. — Now  that  cream  of  tartar  has 
become  an  article  of  the  cuisine,  the  larger  part  used  being  as  a  substitute 
for  yeast  in  bread  and  cake  making,  the  rascals  who  are  constantly  seek- 
ing out  some  means  of  cheating  the  public,  have  laid  hold  of  this,  disregard- 
ing the  fact  that  it  had  already  suffered  sufficiently  among  the  druggists. 
The  following  note  reveals  a  specimen  of  this  villainy,  which  exhibits  some 
acuteness,  as  the  party  addressed  himself  to  a  class  who  either  ignorantly 
or  from  habit  would  be  induced  to  accept  the  bait  : — 
Philadelphia,  August  22d,  1859. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  : 
The  sample,  is  part  of  a  specimen  of  an  article  which  was  offered  in  our 
