BELL, JACOB (1810-18S9), British pharmaceutical chem ist, was born in London on March 5, 181 o. On the completion of his education, he joined his father in business as a chemist in Oxford street, and at the same time attended the chemistry lec tures at the Royal Institution, and those on medicine at King's college. Always keenly alive to the interests of chemists in gen eral, Bell originated in 1841 the scheme for the foundation of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. He also established the Pharmaceutical Journal, superintending its publication for eighteen years. In 1845 Bell drew up the draft of a bill to deal with the practice of pharmacy by unqualified persons, one of the provisions of which was the recognition of the Pharmaceutical Society as the governing body in all questions connected with pharmacy. In 185o Bell entered parliament for St. Albans, and in 1851 he brought forward a bill which, however, when eventu ally it became law, only partially represented its sponsor's inten tions. Bell wrote an Historical Sketch of the Progress of Pharmacy in Great Britain. He died on June 12, 1859.