THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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It is notified by the examiners under the Pharmacy Act of Victoria that 
candidates for examination in practical pharmacy will be expected to be familiar 
with the new Pharmacopoeia. 
At a meeting of the Medical Board of Victoria held on the 9th March, 
Dr. S. B. Corder, of Powlett- street, East Melbourne, and Dr. J. Small, of 
Geelong, were registered as duly qualified medical practitioners. 
The Central Board of Health has received a communication from Mr. J ohn Kyle, 
the manager of the Budgeree Patent Disinfecting Company, stating that he is pre- 
pared to thoroughly deodorise and disinfect the whole of the night-soil from the city 
and suburbs, and remove it to a distance of 30 miles by rail from Melbourne to a spot 
at which 320 acres of land have been secured, entirely isolated from all habitations. 
The proposal will be brought under the consideration of the board at its next meeting. 
At the usual monthly meeting of the Medical Society, held on the 3rd 
March, the action of the Chief Secretary in reducing the fee for examining and 
granting a certificate of health for all young persons under the age of 16, under 
the new Factories Act, from 7s. 6d to os., was brought before the members by 
Dr. Tweeddale. The members present, after some f discussion, agreed that the 
sum mentioned was quite inadequate to the services Required, and that a copy of 
the resolution should be immediately forwarded to the Central Board of Health. 
The Noxious Fumes Board have made a number of recommendations 
respecting the employment of nitro-glycerine compounds and compressed air in 
mines. The Mining department has issued a circular to mining managers 
requesting them to adopt the suggestions of the Board as far as practicable. The 
Noxious Fumes Board expressed the opinion that nitro-glycerine compounds were 
injurious to health when used in quantities exceeding those required to lift the 
burden, and that they were especially injurious when used in dry or ill-ventilated 
places. The Board recommended that powder only should be used in dry 
ground, experience having shown it to be as cheap and effective as dynamite in 
that kind of country. 
Me. A. W. Peakson, the agricultural chemist, has just made an analysis of the 
bark of the acacia retinode^a variety of the wattle tree which grows in South Aus- 
tralia, and of the acacia pycnantha, or golden wattle. A short time ago some trees of 
the South Australian variety were grown at the State Nursery, at Mount Macedon, 
by mistake, and the analyses referred to were made for the purpose of ascertaining 
the commercial value of the bark as compared with that of the golden wattle, which 
is the best variety. The report furnished by Mr. Pearson shows that, while the bark 
of the golden wattle contained 40 per cent, of tannin, the other gave 32 per cent. 
The result is considered sufficiently favourable to justify the cultivation of the trees 
which have been planted out. 
In the seventh part of Mr. J. E. Brown’s Forest Flora of South Australia, which 
has just been issued, the author figures and describes the long flower-stalked wattle, 
or acacia spilleriana , which is a species new to science, and was only found about a 
year ago by himself, in a district about 25 miles south-east of the Burra. It forms a 
handsome ever-green shrub, growing to the height of 8ft. or 9ft., and its globular 
inflorescence, of a golden-yellow colour, and throwing off a soft and delicate perfume, 
renders it a pleasing object in the landscape. Two varieties of the eucalyptus are 
figured — the manna and the box gum respectively. The former name has been 
adopted by Mr. Brown as the most suitable for what is known by a variety of epithets, 
because this species abounds in the mellitode manna of the chemists to a greater 
degree than any other known member of the genus. It is recommended for planta- 
tion, as it is very hardy, has an easily transplanted open root, and is not readily 
