School of Pharmacy University of London

Abstract

THE Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain established its School of Pharmacy in Bloomsbury Square in 1842 ; this School has played an important part in the training of pharmacists and in the advancement of pharmaceutical knowledge. In 1925 it was admitted as a School of the University of London, and the scope and prestige of its research work were increased by the opening of the Pharmacological Laboratories under the direction of Prof. J. H. Burn. In 1933 the school became the “College of the Pharmaceutical Society". The original building had by this time become hopelessly inadequate, and plans were made to provide fine accommodation for the College in the new building in Brunswick Square, which was also to serve as the headquarters of the Society. These plans were interrupted in 1939 before the building was complete, and when the War ended it was impossible to proceed with them. The solution of the problem thus presented has now been found. The College of the Pharmaceutical Society is born again as an independent School of Pharmacy in the University of London. The University has purchased the unfinished building and intends to give the School the same space it would have received from the Society. The first session of the new School, which is also the hundred and seventh session of the old School, opened on October 5. In the inaugural address Prof. G. B. Jeffery gave an interesting review of the history of the Society and the University, and held out high hopes for their joint future. Those who are responsible for this development are to be warmly congratulated. The old over-crowded building is still in use ; but there seems to be a prospeojrfpf better things to come.