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cases. In this matter we have one more illustration of the necessity of assimilating 
the “ Poison” laws of the various Australian colonies, and if the forthcoming 
Conference should effect nothing more than this it will not have met in vain. 
Drs. Jay and Giles have been elected honorary assistant surgeons of the 
Adelaide Hospital, and Dr. Wyatt re-appointed chairman of the board of manage- 
ment. Dr. Poulton has resigned his position of senior house surgeon, it being his 
intention to enter private practice. 
Our Eoyal Society has had another section added to it in the form of a 
Microscopical Society, the objects of which are to study those branches of knowledge 
in which the microscope is used as the principal mode of: research. The society does 
not by any means intend to be an exclusive one, as Dr. H. T. Whittell, who presided 
at the inaugural meeting, stated that “ any persons who possessed microscopes and 
wished to learn would be heartily welcomed.” Dr. Whittell himself, it may be 
added, is the possessor of a small compound instrument which is said to be over 100 
years old. 
Dr. Schomburgk, the director of the Botanical Gardens, Adelaide, has been 
elected a corresponding member of the Botanic Society of Copenhagen. This 
makes the fiftieth diploma that he has received. 
Professor Watson, of the Adelaide University, returned from Germany on 
Saturday, 20th March. The object of his visit was to procure rabbits infected 
with a contagious parasite, with a view of trying experiments in the extermination 
of rabbits by the introduction of the pest. He obtained two dozen rabbits, but 
they all died on the voyage out. It is intended to make an effort to procure a 
fresh supply. 
Dr. Cleland, medical superintendent at the Parkside Lunatic Asylum, South 
Australia, has been appointed lecturer in materia medica in the Adelaide 
University. 
(jUtSUIvTlTUT. 
The most difficult question to satisfactorily settle, if a Pharmacy Bill is intro- 
duced into Parliament this session, will be that of representation. As the Board 
must consist of an odd number, say five or seven members, the majority should be 
those residing in Hobart, so that no delay in conducting urgent business should take 
place through the inability of northern members to attend. The action of this 
majority would always have to be ratified by the full Board at a meeting to take place 
— that is if the northern members disagreed with the action of the southern ones. 
A meeting of the full Board should be held half-yearly, when the examinations would 
be conducted, and such business as had been carried out in the meantime officially 
ratified by the full Board. This representation difficulty would, no doubt, be a 
source of irritation to the northern members, but when they remember that many 
members of the trade are not able to leave their businesses to attend meetings held 
120 miles away, they will agree that this is the only solution of the difficulty of 
representation, and that whatever action was taken by the southern sub-committee, 
for it can really be called nothing more, must affect themselves equally with 
their northern brethren. In any case the governing body must have sufficient 
members to carry on the business in one city or close to it, and it naturally 
follows that, as Hobart is the capital, so there the Board must have its head- 
quarters. 
