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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
At the other meetings the Board have been principally occupied with the 
draft regulations, applications from persons wishing to be registered (several 
of whom, not having a certificate of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 
Britain, must wait a little longer), and several matters of minor importance 
not worth mentioning here. 
Since the first meeting of the Board the following gentlemen, holding 
certificates from the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, have been regis- 
tered as pharmaceutical chemists in Queensland, viz : — William Wilcox, John 
Goodrich, Dr. Thos. Ridgley, Alfred Jeffries Timbury, and Philip Neville 
Taylor. Besides these, the medical Board registered thirteen gentlemen since 
the 1st January, 1885, and before the Pharmacy Act came into force, whose 
names and latest addresses will be found in the pharmaceutical list for 1885, 
now in the printer’s hands. [Referring to this list, I may mention that it 
may be procured for the sum of one shilling from the registrar of the 
Pharmacy Board, Brisbane, and it is most desirable that he should be advised 
of any incorrect addresses, and be notified when any chemist mentioned 
therein changes his pharmacy to another address. 
Your readers will be surprised to hear that Parliament declines to grant 
the small sum of £150 for the purposes of the Pharmacy Board. This amount 
was asked for to defray incidental expenses while getting the Pharmacy Act into 
work. I am glad to know that your Government is a little more generous 
and alive to the interests of the public than the majority of the House 
was here when the item was brought on, and hope when the next Estimates 
are under consideration that we shall not be left out in the cold. In conse- 
quence of being left without funds, the Board have had to beg from the 
Pharmaceutical Society, by way of loans, for sufficient money to defray expenses, 
and I understand that the Society are, by a circular letter, inviting persons 
interested to become members and so resuscitate the Society, which has of late 
rather fallen off through various causes. 
I see that Mr. M. H. Cormack, of Queen- street, Brisbane, has purchased 
the pharmacy in George- street, Brisbane/' lately carried on by Messrs Suther- 
land Bros., and the pharmacy in Edward-street, lately carried on by Messrs. 
Moffatt Bros., for the convenience of his numerous customers in those localities. 
Mr. Abraham Martin, of Queen-street, has lately been appointed pharma- 
ceutical chemist to his Excellency the Governor (Sir Anthony Musgrave) and 
family. 
I should be glad if your readers in Queensland would forward any little 
items of interest concerning chemists to the registrar, the Pharmacy Board, 
Brisbane, who will, at all times, be glad to receive them. 
The alarming prevalence of throat affections among children in Brisbane has 
been traced to impure milk, a considerable proportion of the cows of the city 
and suburbs being found to be suffering from cow-pox. As a consequence, the 
genuine article has been to a great extent superseded by condensed milk. 
A married woman named [Ruth [Robinson was presented at the Roma Police 
Court, on the 8th ultimo, charged with the murder of her first husband, Robert 
Birkett. The crime is stated to have been committed as far back as December, 
1883. Frances Martindale, a married sister of the prisoner, deposed that between 
the 15th and 25th December of the year named the prisoner had administered 
doses of white precipitate and oxalic acid to the deceased in his soup, and 
that on the night of the 1st January, 1884, she gave him a dose of laudanum 
in a sleeping draught, from the effects of which he died. Of all this the 
witness acknowledged she was thoroughly cognisant. The witness declared she 
did not know the nature of an oath, and that she was not sorry for her sister, 
