The  Visit  of  Henry  S.  Wellcome. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I       April,  1905. 
Alkalies  as  a  Test  for  Morphia  and  Other  Proximate  Principles," 
which  was  published  in  this  Journal  in  1874  (Vol.  xlvi,  p.  305). 
Other  published  investigations  by  Mr.  Wellcome  soon  after  were 
"  Eriodyction,"  "  the  Damianas  of  the  Market,"  "  the  Sources  of 
Bromine,"  etc.,  etc.  As  showing  still  further  his  keen  appreciation, 
even  at  this  time,  of  the  necessity  for  maintaining  pharmacy  on  a 
high  plane,  we  may  refer  to  an  article  of  his  (Amer.  Jour.  Pharm., 
Vol.  xlvii,  p.  15)  on  "Liquor  Selling  by  Pharmacists,"  in  which 
he  asks  for  a  remedy  "  by  which  the  outside  world  can  distinguish 
between  the  pharmaceutical  saloon  and  the  legitimate  pharmacy." 
In  1876  Mr.  Wellcome  accepted  a  position  with  McKesson  &  Rob- 
bins,  and  in  the  interests  of  this  firm  went  to  South  America,  where 
he  visited  and  studied  the  native  cinchona  forests  which  he 
described  in  a  paper  read  before  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  in  1879;  also  in  an  article  published  in  the  Popular 
Science  Monthly.  He  conceived  the  idea  that  London  would  be  an 
ideal  place  for  a  manufacturing  chemist,  and  accordingly  in  1880, 
in  conjunction  with  the  late  Silas  M.  Burroughs,  established  the 
firm  oi  Burroughs,  Wellcome  &  Co.,  who  have  become  noted  all 
over  the  world  as  manufacturers  of  fine  chemicals,  alkaloids,  phar- 
maceutical products,  etc.,  etc.  The  keynote  of  this  firm's  success 
probably  lies  in  their  ready  "  recognition  of  scientific  advancement 
and  the  adaptation  of  its  results  in  their  methods  and  work." 
Mr.  Wellcome's  efforts  have  not,  however,  been  confined  entirely 
to  the  development  of  applied  science  as  carried  on  in  their  manu- 
facturing laboratories,  but  he  has  established  two  independent  re- 
search laboratories  in  London,  the  one  being  devoted  to  chemical 
research  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  F.  B.  Power,  and  the  other  to 
physiological  research  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  Walter  Dowson. 
In  addition,  Mr.  Wellcome  has  also  founded  and  endowed  Research 
Laboratories  in  connection  with  the  Gordon  Memorial  College, 
Khartoum,  Soudan,  which  was  opened  on  November  8,  1902.  These 
laboratories  are  for  the  study  of  tropical  diseases  of  bacteriological 
and  parasitical  origin,  of  both  plant  and  animal  life  and  for  general 
chemical  and  physiological  research.  The  investigations  are  under 
the  direction  of  Dr.  Andrew  Balfour,  and  the  report  of  the  first 
year's  work  has  been  recently  published  by  the  Soudan  Government. 
At  the  St.  Louis  International  Exposition,  1904,  the  jury  awarded 
a  grand  prize  and  three  gold  medals  to  the  Wellcome  Chemical 
