THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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As the Public Service Hoard have certified that there is no officer in the 
service qualified to act as agricultural chemist for the Department of Agricul- 
ture, Mr. Levien has directed that applications shall be invited from persons 
competent to perform the duties of the new position. Several gentlemen applied 
for the appointment before the certificate of the Public Service Hoard rendered 
it necessary to seek an officer outside the service, but the Minister of Agricul- 
ture thinks it desirable to give the matter full publicity before making a 
selection. 
Me. J . Bosisto, president of the Indian and Colonial Commission in Victoria, 
left by B.M.S. Valetta , which sailed at one o’clock on Thursday, the 28th 
January, to represent the colony at the forthcoming exhibition in London. A 
number of Mr. Hosisto’s fellow-commissioners and other friends attended to see 
him off, and some of them accompanied him in the mail steamer as far as 
Queenscliff. The most cordial good wishes were expressed for the success of 
Mr. Bosisto’s mission, for a pleasant voyage, and his safe return. The Valetta 
has a consignment of exhibits among her cargo. 
A meeting- of chemists interested in the annual cricket match was held at 
the College of Pharmacy, on Monday, the 8th inst. ; Mr. Strutt in the chair. 
There was a fair attendance, and letters of apology were received from several 
gentlemen. It was decided to appoint a committee to carry the annual cricket 
matches through. The following gentlemen were selected: — Mr. A. C. Lewis, 
hon. secretary and treasurer; Messrs. Strutt, Cattach, Caught, and Owen, com- 
mittee. The balance-sheet and report of last year’s match was read and adopted, 
and, after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting adjourned. 
The Police G-azette notifies that there was stolen from the shop of Mr. 
Bobert Wylie, chemist, Burwood-road, Hawthorn, on the 10th January, a small 
japanned tin cash-box, handle off, containing a £5-note, about £3 in silver, a 
silver pencil-case, a lady’s dress ring set with four or five diamonds, a small box 
of leads for pencils, a number of postage stamps, a deposit receipt for £225 on 
the National Bank, a cheque, drawn by J. L. Batten, for £2 12s. on the 
Commercial Bank; a crossed cheque, drawn by — Atkinson, for £1 19s. on the 
London Chartered Bank ; and an open cheque, drawn by H. Bay, for £2 on the 
Colonial Bank, Melbourne. 
We have received a copy of the Begister of Chemists and Druggists and 
other persons who are registered under the provisions of the “ Sale and Use of 
Poisons Act 1876” of New South Wales. Attention was drawn last year to 
several names on this list of persons whose qualifications are stated as being 
members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria, but who are not, and never 
were, members. We find, however, that no alteration has been made in this 
respect, and also that the names of several persons who have been dead for 
some years still continue to appear. If the Begister is to be of any practical 
value it is a pity more care is not taken in its compilation, and that when 
attention is called to errors they should be persistently repeated. 
The laboratories which have been lately erected at Trinity College, through 
the munificence of Sir William Clarke, are now nearly completed, and will be 
ready for the use of students by the beginning of the University term. Mr. J. 
B. Lillie Mackay, who has recently arrived from England, has been appointed 
college lecturer on practical and medical chemistry. Mr. Mackay is a science 
scholar and exhibitioner of King’s College, London, and held for some time 
the post of demonstrator of practical chemistry at the Boyal School of Mines 
in Jermyn-street. Mr. C. Dyring, B.A., of Melbourne University, has been 
appointed assistant-lecturer in the same department. Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., 
