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ing a stock of materials from which the pupils are furnish- 
ed at the order of the Professor. No extra charge is made 
for using the apparatus, except for wilful or culpable neglect 
or injury. The products of all the operations are the 
property of the Society. On entry each pupil has a work- 
ing table, and the necessary special apparatus assigned him, 
and for which he is held responsible. Since the commence- 
ment of this school in 1S45 the class has varied from 25 to 
40 per annum, and the fee, at first 40 guineas, has been 
reduced to 32 guineas for the term of ten months. A num- 
ber of young men have left it, well qualified by their edu- 
cation to advance the interests of their profession. 
By the annual report for July last, we learn that the 
practical school is in a flourishing condition, and that the 
majority of the pupils are from other parts of England, 
which is an encouraging feature. 
Since the successful operation of the parent Society and 
School at London, the Chemists and Druggists of two other 
cities of England have established associations with the 
same object. The Bristol Association have made an ar- 
rangement with a medical school in that city, whereby 
their students can attend lectures on Chemistry, Materia 
Medica, and Botany ; and in Liverpool the^profession have 
just formed a society, and have announced gratuitous lec- 
tures by scientific gentlemen, no doubt as an experiment 
preliminary to a more permanent establishment. This plan 
of local associations will do away with one great difficulty 
of the parent society, viz : the great inconvenience of 
young men going up to London to finish their education. 
It will have the effect, undoubtedly, to diminish the num- 
ber of country members, but London and its vicinity will 
afford a full support to the school there, and its superior 
facilities will yet remain as an inducement to attract 
the better class of the students from the provincial 
schools. 
The Council of the Pharmaceutical Society have been 
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