14 PRESENT STATE OF PHARMACY IN ENGLAND^ 
it was instituted to promote, to be present and take part in 
the discussions. Occasionally lectures are delivered on some 
new and strikingly interesting subject. The numerous list 
of members affords an abundance who are willing to devote 
a portion of time to increasing the interest of these meet- 
ings, and rendering them attractive. Chemicals, Pharma- 
ceutical, Botanical, and Materia Medica specimens, scien- 
tific apparatus and illustrations, are among the objects of 
interest to be met with at the rooms at Bloomsbury square, 
and we frequently observe that these contributions are sent 
from remote parts of England or Scotland. There is but 
one business meeting at which all the members are admit- 
ed, which is called the annual meeting, and occurs in May. 
The officers and council of the Society are elected annually 
on this occasion. The council or executive of the So- 
ciety meet monthly. It is clear, that unless some other 
occasions were furnished for the intercourse of the mem- 
bers, calculated to promote fraternal feeling and enable 
them to compare sentiments, one chief object of the Society 
would have been defeated. The Pharmaceutical meetings, 
by their informal character, and real interest, supply this 
requisite, as to time, place, and attractiveness, and have 
certainly contributed to promote the cause of Pharmacy in 
England. 
The Pharmaceutical Journal has already been alluded 
to. What the scientific meetings are to London and its 
vicinity, this periodical has proved to the provincial cities 
and towns. It was a sagacious move in the founders to so 
arrange the contribution of the members as to include the 
price of the Journal, and thus compel all to take it, and 
most of them to read of the progress of the parent Society, 
and of the improvements and discoveries of the day. There 
can be hardly a doubt that the Pharmaceutical Journal, as 
conducted by Jacob Bell, has been and continues to be the 
greatest boon that has fallen to the lot of the English 
Pharmaceutists as a whole. Its character is unique. No 
