THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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We are pleased to state that the health of Mr. E. Bage, whose illness was 
referred to in our last issue, is much improved. 
The 1886 session in Practical Pharmacy for medical students, at the 
College of Pharmacy, will commence on the 24th March. 
Mr. C. R. Blackett will read Notes on Ipecacuanha Wine, B.P., 1885, 
at the quarterly meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia to be 
held on the 10th March next. 
It is announced in the Government Gazette that Mr. W. Johnson, 
Government analytical chemist, has been appointed analytical chemist for the 
examination of spirits under the new Licensing Act. 
The gold medal and the president’s prize for the dux of 1885 will be 
presented to Mr. Paul Ward Farmer at the annual meeting on the 10th March, 
at 8.30 p.m. Students and members are invited to attend. 
The Central Board of Health has advised the analysts of the county towns 
of the occurrence of poisoning by tinned fish, and requested them to endeavour 
to trace any cases that should happen. 
At the last meeting of the Pharmacy Board of Victoria, held on the 10th of 
February, Mr. C. R. Blackett was, for the third time, re-elected president of 
the Board. Mr. H. T. Tompsitt was also re-elected treasurer. 
Among the successful candidates for Parliament during the recent general 
election in Great Britain is Mr. J. H. Haslett, described as a chemist and 
druggist, who was returned in the Conservative interest for West Belfast. 
The annual meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia takes 
place on Wednesday, 10th March, at the College of Pharmacy, at 8 o’clock. 
After the meeting the quarterly supper will he held at the Earl of Zetland 
Hotel, Swanston-street. 
The lectures in Materia Medica, Botany, and Chemistry for the year 
1886 will commence at the College of Pharmacy on the 23rd March. We are 
requested to call students’ attention to the time for entry (14th March), which 
will be strictly adhered to. 
The views of the interior and exterior of the College of Pharmacy, taken 
for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, were forwarded to London by the last 
mail. Another set has also been prepared for presentation to the Pharmaceu- 
tical Society of Great Britain. 
The nominations for the three vacant seats on the Pharmacy Board closed 
on the 25th January, at 4 p.m. The only candidates were Messrs. C. E. 
Blackett, William Bowen, and Samuel Shippam Strutt, who were, therefore, 
declared by the returning officer (Mr. J. T. Thomas) duly elected. 
At a recent meeting of the Council of Agricultural Education Mr. Derham, 
M.L.A., announced that a gentleman, who wished his name withheld, had 
intimated his intention of giving £1000 to found a scholarship at the Agricul- 
tural College as soon as it was placed upon a practical footing. 
In recording Mr. Sidney Plowman’s admission as a Fellow of the Eoyal 
College of Surgeons of England, the Pharmaceutical Journal adds We believe 
vre are correct in saying that Mr. Plowman is the first registered chemist and 
druggist who, having left pharmacy for the medical profession, has attained this 
degree. 
