300 PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OP GREAT BRITAIN. 
"Marsh's Instrument," by Dr. Thomson; "Expressed Juices/ 7 
by Mr. Squire; " Ung Hydr. Nitratis," by Robert Alsop, &c. 
Some of these papers will be found in a subsequent portion of 
this Journal, and of others we shall give abstracts. 
That an organization of the pharmaceutical profession has 
not been before effected in England, or at least in London, is 
to us a matter of much surprise, and to this may, in some de- 
gree at least, be attributed the undeniable fact, that in the 
cultivation of pharmacy as a scienqe, the pharmaceutists of 
Great Britain are much behind their neighbors on the conti- 
nent. In pharmaceutic chemistry [and organic analysis, the 
science of France and Germany is far in advance of England, 
because pharmacy in the latter country is scarcely cultivated 
as a scientific profession. 
We trust that in the energy, judgment, and professional 
spirit which is thus far displayed by the Council and active 
members of the new Pharmaceutical Society, we see the 
dawn of a more brilliant epoch, when the pharmacian of 
Great Britain will take that rank in the scientific world, 
which the eminence of his countrymen in almost every other 
pursuit, justify us in expecting him to attain. 
If the true estimate of the capabilities and respectability of 
his own profession was duly held, there would be less dispo- 
sition to step out of his own ranks, and interfere in medical 
practice. There is ample room in the field of pharmaceutic 
research, to give scope to the most active and comprehensive 
intellect; renown enough yet to be acquired, to gratify any 
properly regulated ambition. Any thing which looks like 
trenching upon the province of the physician should be dis- 
countenanced, and a proper spirit of independence and self re- 
spect cultivated. The time has passed, for the one profession 
to be considered as subservient to the other ; where mutual 
assistance is required, mutual respect is due. 
Not the least gratifying evidence of the spirit with which 
the active members of the association have entered into the 
cause? is the establishment of the monthly Scientific Journal; 
