16 PRESENT STATE OF PHARMACY IN ENGLAND. 
affairs. With the continental pharmacies, laboratories are 
generally connected, where the apprentices acquire in 
regular course the familiarity with manipulation so neces- 
sary in the pursuit of chemistry, either economical or 
scientific. In England, however, to even a greater extent 
than with us, the chemist and druggist depends on the 
wholesale dealer and manufacturer for his chemicals, and 
but little provision is made for the instruction of the juniors 
in practical chemical knowledge. In the school of the So- 
ciety, the courses are short, and with a great many of the 
pupils opportunities for experiment are few and far be- 
tween. In view of this, the council of the Society perceiv- 
ed the advantages that must eventually arise from the 
establishment of a practical school under the supervision of 
the Professors of Chemistry and Pharmacy, where the stu- 
dent could put in practice the precepts of the lectures. It 
also would afford a means to medical students and to ama- 
teurs to acquire a kind of informati on and skill only else- 
where to be found, within the precincts of the manufactory 
or Pharmacy, into which, for this purpose access is always 
difficult and often impossible, for temporary applicants. 
With the large income of the Society, the Council were 
enabled to create a laboratory establishment of the most 
complete kind, furnished with all the appurtenances afford- 
ed by the metropolis, and for convenience and comfort not 
surpassed by any of the much celebrated European labora- 
tories. The arrangements accommodate about 30 tsudents. 
The rooms are open from nine o'clock in the morning until 
six in the evening, for five days of the week, and on Satur- 
day, the studies are conducted in the Library and Museum, 
The pupils are required to quit the laboratory at 6 o'clock 
P. M. thai the assistants may have time to proceed with 
the arrangements and cleansing for the following day. 
The Professor assigns to each student the operations he is 
to perform, and directs the manner in which he is to do it. 
Store rooms are in connection with the laboratory, contain- 
