THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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We have received from the G-eneral Medical Council a copy of the new 
British Pharmacopoeia, 1885. 
We regret to announce that Mr. E. Bage has been confined to his house 
through illness for some days past. 
We have received from Mr. Chas. W. Day, secretary of the Illinois Board 
of Pharmacy, the Fourth Annual Report of the Board, with the abstract of State 
Pharmacy Register. 
The annual cricket match of the Wholesale against the Retail Chemists will 
be, we understand, held on a day to be fixed next month. The match which was 
played last year resulted in a most enjoyable reunion ; and we hope this year 
to see the holiday a more general one. The arrangement of the match this year 
is in the hands of the wholesale firms. 
The diaries issued by the proprietors of the Chemist and Druygist of 
London, and which are supplied to the society as purchasers of so many copies of 
that publication, were received on the 31st of December, ana were distributed 
as quickly as possible. In cases where they have not reached their destination 
a notification should be sent to Mr. Shillinglaw, at the College of Pharmacy. 
The proprietors of the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy have under con- 
sideration the preparation of a diary, to be presented to members of the Pharma- 
ceutical Society and subscribers. It is proposed to make it a handy book of 
reference, containing a large amount of information especially adapted to Australasian 
pharmacists; and last, but not least, it is not contemplated to make it an 
advertising medium. 
The election of three members of the Pharmacy Board of Victoria, caused 
by the retirement of Messrs. Blackett, Bowen, and Holdsworth, will take place 
on the 8th of February next. Nomination papers must be lodged at the office 
of the Pharmacy Board, College of Pharmacy, Swanston-street, Melbourne, 
before four o’clock in the afternoon of the 25th J anuary, 1886. The returning 
officer’s announcement appears in our advertising columns. 
At the meeting of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia 
held on the 8th January, the retiring members of the council were decided by 
lot. The following are the members who retire, but are eligible for re-election : 
—Messrs. Wm. Bowen, H. T. Tompsitt, J. Lacey, and J. C. Jones. The 
election takes place on the day fixed for the annual meeting, the 10th of 
March next. Members intending to offer themselves as candidates for the 
council must be nominated twenty-eight days before the day of election. 
The friends of Mr. Sidney Plowman will be glad to hear that gentleman has 
passed the examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons on 
the 30th November last. We, in Victoria, are greatly indebted to Mr. Plowman 
for many acts of kindness, and for the very great interest he has always taken 
in colonial pharmacy. The members of the Pbarmacutical Society of Australasia also 
most cordially recognise the great obligations they are under to Professors Redwood 
and Attfield for their valuable advice and assistance whenever it has been sought. 
Some tubers of the parent potato plant which were found by a traveller 
in South America were obtained a short time ago by Mr. Bosisto, M.LA., and 
handed to the department of Agriculture for experimental purposes. A few of 
the tubers were forwarded to Mr. George Neilson, the curator of the Horticul- 
tural Society’s Gardens, Richmond, who informed the Secretary for Agriculture, 
a few days ago, that he is conducting experiments with considerable success. 
Mr. Neilson thinks that the new potato is securely acclimatised, but he will 
continue his experiments with a view of obtaining an improved tuber. 
