The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7415 p262
26 August 2006

Society summary

PJ editor to feature in BBC2's Coast series

A former editor of The Pharmaceutical Journal is to feature in the BBC2 documentary series Coast, illustrated by a portrait photograph supplied by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's museum.

Benjamin Horatio Paul, who edited The Journal at the end of the 19th century, is to be mentioned in a programme featuring the coast of the Hebridean islands. Programme researchers had discovered that Mr Paul spent some time working in the Hebrides devising a way to convert peat into paraffin oil.

Horatio Paul was born in 1827 and edited The Journal from 1870 until his retirement at the age of 75 in 1902. He was renowned a gifted scientist and a brilliant linguist.

The programme is to be broadcast on 11 October.