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Proposed by Mr. Cooper, and seconded by Mr. Parker — “That tbe date for 
the payment of subscriptions for the present year be extended to the 28th of 
February/ * Carried. 
A vote of thanks was accorded to the editor of the Chemist and, Druggist 
for his offer to obtain specimens for the museum of the society, and also for 
the gift of the “Diary” to the library. 
Mr. White then said that there was no rule entitling those associates who 
pass the higher examinations to the privilege of membership, and proposed the 
following — “All associates who shall have passed the examination for the title 
of pharmaceutical chemist shall be entitled to membership of the society upon 
payment of the members’ fee.” 
Seconded and approved, to be confirmed at two future meetings. 
Mr. L. Scammel was congratulated upon his recent attainment, and, after 
one or two minor matters had been discussed, the meeting terminated. 
Very much interest was shown at the above meeting of the society in several 
choice specimens of drugs and chemicals kindly lent for inspection by Messrs. 
Faulding and Co., and A. M. Bickford and Sons, especially in a fine lot of 
nitrate of silver crystals, prepared from Silverton ore by Mr. L. Scammel, of 
Messrs. Faulding and Co. These crystals looked particularly pure, and certainly 
do credit to the maker, whose recent election as Fellow of the Chemical Society 
of London will, no doubt, be a matter for congratulation to many of your 
readers. 
The Pharmaceutical Society here is now in possession of a room of its 
own, situated in Industrial Chambers, King William-street. This has been neatly 
furnished by the committee, and it is intended shortly to erect suitable shelving, 
cases, &c., for the reception of specimens and books. 
Among casual observations it may be worth while recording that the senior 
house surgeon of the Adelaide Hospital has drawn the attention of the Hospital 
board to the fact that three men suffering from typhoid fever had been recently 
sent by rail from the far north, and that, as the complaint was in the diarrhoeal 
stage, centres of infection had probably been established at various railway 
stations and elsewhere on the route. This is well worth attention, as typhoid 
manifests itself severely at times in South Australia. 
Dr. Astles, of Adelaide, has just published a small work going over the old 
ground of the usefulness of intoxicants or otherwise, and seems to find something 
to say which strict abstainers will not like. 
A small weevil grub, not the codlin moth, is doing great damage to the 
apples at Gumeracha, South Australia, and has destroyed both trees and fruit. 
A plan is going to be tried of boring the trees and filling the holes with 
bisulphide of carbon. 
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14th February, 1886. 
Is our previous article we endeavoured to put plainly before our readers the 
position of the Tasmanian chemists, and now we intend discussing the reasons 
against their status being raised by an Act similar to that existing in Victoria 
and Queensland, which will not only designate them as “chemists or pharmacists,” 
instead of “vendors of poisons,” but also give them the power to govern them- 
selves, instead of being connected with the Court of Medieal Examiners, who 
have no interests in common with them, and who might at some future 
time formulate regulations hostile to the interests of pharmacists. The most 
