The  following  year  commenced  with  a  register  of  deaths
among  some  of  the  early  promoters  and  scientific  officers  of
the  Pharmaceutical  Society.  John  Bell,  the  founder  of  the
celebrated  house  of  John  Bell  &  Co.,  of  338,  Oxford  Street,
and  George  Fownes,  F.B.S.,  the  first  Professor  of  Chemistry
to  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  and  author  of  the  well-known
and  popular  manual  of  chemistry  which  still  bears  his  name,
both  died  in  January,  1849 ;  and  a  few  months  afterwards
the  same  unsparing  messenger  summoned  away  another  of
the  professors  of  the  school  of  pharmacy,  Dr.  Anthony  Todd
Thomson.
190  DEATH   AND    MEMOIR    OP   JOHN    BELL.
