THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
97 
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We are glad to state that, at last advice from Dunedin, Mr. Bage (of Messrs. 
Felton, Grimwade & Co.) was much improved in health. 
Messes. Blackett and M £ Farlane have been interesting themselves in a movement 
for early closing, and we are informed that the whole of the pharmacists of Fitzroy 
and Collingwood have agreed to the proposal to close at 9.30. 
The annual meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society was not largely attended, 
but passed off in a satisfactory manner, the address of the president and all 
the business being finished in ample time for the supper at the Maison Dorce. 
The “ Year Book of Pharmacy for 1885” is expected shortly to arrive, and 
will be distributed as quickly as possible. Members who have not yet paid 
their subscriptions are invited to forward the same to Mr. Shillinglaw, College 
of Pharmacy. 
The quarterly supper of the members of the Pharmaceutical Society was 
held at the Maison Dovee on the evening of the 10th inst. There was an 
excellent attendance. The only toast was the “ Health of Mr. William Bowen,” 
which was proposed by Mr. C. A. Atkin, and drank in a most hearty manner. 
The recent quarterly examinations under the Pharmacy Act have resulted 
very satisfactorily to the students who presented themselves for examination, 
not a single candidate having been rejected in the materia medica, botany, 
and chemistry sections. Five out of eight in the preliminary examination 
passed. 
The gold medal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia was presented, 
at the annual meeting, by the president, to Mr. Paul Ward Farmer, the dux 
student of the year 1885. The prizes given by the president (3 vols. of 
Buckle’s History of Civilisation, handsomely bound in calf) follow the medal, 
and have been awarded to Mr. Farmer. 
It will be very gratifying to Mr. Bosisto to learn that he has, notwith- 
standing his absence from the colony, been again returned to Parliament at- 
the head of the poll. On this occasion Mr. Bosisto polled 1087 votes more 
than he did at the general election in February, 1883, when he was also at 
the head of the poll. Mr. Bosisto has ever been one of the most constant and 
able contributors to Australasian pharmaceutical publications, and both our 
previous numbers contain articles from his pen. 
Mr. William Bowen, the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Australasia and a member of the Pharmacy Board of Victoria, who is about 
paying a visit to Europe, was entertained at lunch by the members of the Board 
on the 10th inst. In proposing the health of their guest, Mr. C. li. Blackett 
dwelt on the earnest interest Mr. Bowen had always taken in the advance- 
ment of Australasian pharmacy, and hoped that, after his well-earned holiday, 
they would have the pleasure of welcoming him back again. 
Professors Bedwood and Attfield, and Mr. Sydney Plowman, F.E.C.S., the 
committee appointed in London to select a gentleman to undertake the duties 
of director and lecturer at the College of Pharmacy, Melbourne, have recom- 
mended Mr. Alfred H. Jackson, B.Sc., F.C.S., M.P.S., for the position. The 
bulk of Mr. Jackson’s training has been in the laboratories of Professor Schor- 
lemmer and Professor Sir H. E. Eoscoe, and he is now the head of the Sandy 
Lane Chemical Works, Manchester. Mr. Jackson has had practical experience 
in teaching, and has also been a large contributor to the English scientific 
