PRESENT STATE OF PHARMACY IN ENGLAND. 15 
<@ther Journal with which we are acquainted presents so 
many peculiarities adapted to advance and elevate the con- 
dition of our profession and its votaries among a people 
like the English. The Editor is constantly seen in its 
pages — his watchful eye is over every interest — now com- 
menting upon the action of Parliament in reference to 
medical legislation, or advocating the rights of the drug- 
gist pending a suit at law brought against him by the 
Apothecaries' Society, or perhaps attacks on his own Socie- 
ty by other writers. In England the rights of incorporated 
bodies are more generally insisted on than with us, and 
their privileges are looked after with a jealous watchful- 
ness hardly paralleled in the United States. The Editor 
often finds employment for his pen in exposing corporative 
policy, and in giving advice to his brethren in reference to 
conduct in particular cases. 
The Transactions of the Society, or the official statements 
of the progress of the institution, are published in this Jour- 
nal, and comprise the proceedings of the annual meetings, 
the report of the council, the special acts of that body, and 
the transactions of the Pharmaceutical meetings. Besides 
these and the editorial matter, lectures on new and impor- 
tant subjects, and matter selected from cotemporary peri- 
odicals of the continent, are found in its pages. 
One of the later additions to the usefulness of the So- 
ciety, is the laboratory established under its auspices in 
1S45 for the study of practical Pharmacy and Chemistry. 
In 1832 when the trustees of the Philadelphia College of 
Pharmacy were about to erect the building in which we 
are now convened, it was suggested to fit up a room for a 
practical laboratory, where the members might resort to 
e^perim in*, or to manufactuie chemical of the finer sorts — - 
the apparatus to belong to the College, and the members 
to pay a fee for its use sufficient to keep it in order. The 
policy and advantages of this movement were called in 
question, however, by those who had the chief direction o 
