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IN the afternoon of April 15 several hundreds of pharmacists attended a meeting at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, which was held to celebrate the centenary of the Pharmaceutical Society. Mr. Walter Deacon, who presided, introduced Sir John Anderson, Lord President of the Council who, he said, now had many dealings with representatives of the Society at the Home Office and elsewhere. In his address, Sir John said it was fitting that someone with a knowledge of the circumstances of pharmacy extending over thirty years should attend the meeting as a representative of His Majesty's Government to pay tribute to the Society's past achievements and to wish it well for the future. The founders of the Society, he continued, laid down that its main purpose should be to advance chemistry and pharmacy, and the constancy with which their successors had pursued that aim deserved the fullest recognition. Modern developments of medicine have changed completely the work of the pharmacist, and it is right that the public should now know how successful have been the efforts of the Pharmaceutical Society to keep in line with the advance in knowledge and the great progress of medical science. A play, “Jacob Bell and Some Others”, specially written for the occasion by Mr.?. N. Linstead, secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society, and produced by Donald Wolfit, followed the speeches. It brought vividly to the large audience episodes associated with the Society's foundation.
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Centenary of the Pharmaceutical Society. Nature 147, 506–507 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147506c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147506c0