PROGRESS OF PHARMACY IN GREAT BRITAIN. 
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scribed were placed in the hands of trustees, and continued 
to accumulate until the formation of the present Pharma- 
ceutical Society, into whose treasury it was transferred with 
the consent of the surviving subscribers — by William Allen 
the only trustee then living. 
We have now followed our author pretty closely in his 
"Historical Sketch," until it arrives at the present order of 
things in England. We have seen the apothecaries ex- 
foliate from the physicians, become a separate class and 
rise into an influential body. Subsequently the chemists 
and druggists owed their origin to the same medical body, 
through the dispensaries, and have now outgrown in influ- 
ence the apothecaries, in opposition to whom they origi- 
nally arose. To continue the subject by describing the 
events immediately anterior to the formation of the Phar- 
maceutical Society, together with the interesting circum- 
stances that contributed to its birth and growth, seems 
naturally to follow, but the already extended limits of this 
notice admonishes us to conclude it, which we now do 
with the promise of a continuation of the subject at a future 
time. W. P., Jr. 
