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/  Am.  Jour.  Fharir. 
i  September.  1900. 
charitable  institutions  tending  toward  the  improvement  of  the  social 
and  moral  conditions  of  the  needy. 
At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Apothecaries, 
in  1 82 1,  he  was  elected  Secretary, and  continued  as  Secretary  of  the 
College  for  seven  years.  As  chairman  of  the  Publication  Committee, 
Daniel  B.  Smith  issued  the  first  number  of  the  American  Journal 
of  Pharmacy,  and  contributed  the  initial  original  paper. 
For  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  served  as  President  of  the  College, 
ever  keeping  acquainted  with  the  growing  needs  of  pharmaceutical 
education,  and  ever  ready  to  counsel  and  give  encouragement  to  the 
efforts  ot  others. 
In  1828,  Wm.  Hodgson,  Jr.,  who  had  studied  chemistry  in  Eng- 
land, and  learned  the  drug  business  at  the  celebrated  apothecary  of 
John  Bell  &  Co.,  Oxford  Street,  London,  became  associated  in  the 
business,  and,  for  twenty  years,  the  firm  of  Smith  &  Hodgson  con- 
tinued to  do  a  thriving  business.  For  years  this  was  the  only  house 
in  Philadelphia  dealing  in  chemicals  and  apparatus.  This  portion 
of  their  business  developed  greatly,  and  their  laboratory  facilities 
here  were  inadequate.  Desiring  to  engage  more  extensively  in  the 
manufacture  of  chemicals,  in  1848  they  built  a  laboratory  on  Gray's 
Ferry  Road. 
A  number  of  the  young  men  who  entered  the  employ  of  Smith 
&  Hodgson  subsequently  became  prominent  in  chemical  industries 
and  influential  in  pharmacy.  Among  these  may  be  mentioned 
Thomas  Powers,  Henry  Pemberton,  Charles  Bullock  and  Wm.  J. 
Jenks. 
It  is  not  surprising  that  Charles  Bullock,  at  this  period  of  his  life, 
when  character  is  moulded  and  business  training  is  inculcated, 
should,  probably  unconsciously,  absorb  the  impressions  and  many 
of  the  characteristics  of  his  preceptors. 
Smith  &  Hodgson,  desiring  to  devote  their  attention  to  the 
development  of  their  laboratory,  decided  to  dispose  of  their  drug 
business.  Charles  Bullock  and  Edmund  A.  Crenshaw,  two  of  their 
employees,  formed  a  copartnership,  and,  on  January  1, 1849,  Bullock 
&  Crenshaw  succeeded  to  the  business.  While  Mr.  Crenshaw 
devoted  the  major  portion  of  his  time  to  the  development  of  the 
wholesale  drug  business,  Mr.  Bullock  assumed  charge  of  the  de- 
partment of  chemicals  and  apparatus,  and  also  the  manufacture  of 
pharmaceuticals  and  pure  chemicals. 
