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of conduct had not been pursued by the representatives of the N.S.W. Society 
in the overtures made to them from Victoria and New Zealand. However, all 
disagreements may be satisfactorily settled at the approaching Conference, and it 
is to be hoped that this gathering will be the means of smoothing the difficulties 
out of the way of unanimous action in the future. Unquestionably this Con- 
ference will be a great event in the history of pharmacy in Australia. 
Mr. T. J. Henry, son of Mr. Henry, chemist, of G3orge-street, has obtained 
the third prize in the class for the practice of medicine in the recent examinations 
at the Edinburgh University. He has also taken first prize in systematic 
medicine, and gold medal in midwifery and the diseases of women. Mr. G. J. L. 
O’Neill (late student at the Sydney Hospital) took a third prize in clinical medicine. 
The monthly meeting of the Zoological Society was held at the Society’s 
grounds, Moore Park, on the 7th inst. The chair was occupied by Mr. A. Todd 
Holroyd. The accounts of the Society showed a balance of £364 to its credit, 
and the receipts for the past five weeks were stated to be £424 gate-money, 
the number of visitors to the gardens and grounds being nearly 20,000. The gardens 
had been visited by 2944 school children and 100 teachers during the previous 
week. The superintendent’s report was received, and Mr. G. Perry, Town Clerk of 
Ballarat, was introduced to the meeting as a visitor. This Society appears to 
have entered upon a career of great prosperity, and throughout its history 
seems to have had the advantage of good management and generous donations. 
The inaugural meeting of the Horticultural Society was held in the 
Technical College Hall on Tuesday evening, 11th May. The Mayor of Sydney 
presided, and among the horticulturists present were Messrs. Shepherd, Beatson, 
Wooff, Gelding, Tresseder, Turner, Lord, Lindsay, and others. A valuable and 
interesting address was delivered by Dr. Wools, F.L.S., on the work of the 
Society, and the exhibition of flowers formed a spectacle that attracted an 
immense concourse of people. 
The attention of the corporation has been drawn to the deposit of house 
refuse and nightsoil upon the Cooper Estate, in the district between Waterloo 
and Botany. The water of the Botany dams is in danger of contamination, and 
the wells in the immediate vicinity are in a very unhealthy state. The attention 
of the Board of Health having been called to the matter, Dr. Ashburton Thomp- 
son was instructed to draw up a report, and this was transmitted to the cor- 
poration through the medium of the Colonial Secretary’s department. 
Dr. Thompson, who i3 chief medical inspector to the Board of Health, certainly 
deserves the thanks of the community in this city for his incessant labours to 
rid the city of typhoid fever. A recent report from this gentleman shows that 
in the municipality of Leichhardt a dairy well contained the soakage water from 
the drains and cemetery in the neighbourhood, and that in this small district 
over 300 cases of typhoid fever have occurred during this year, the death-rate 
being about 10 per cent. 
The Chemists and Druggists’ Trade Association of New South Wales held 
a meeting for the election of officers, at the office of the Board of Pharmacy, 
on the 6th instant. The room was well filled, and the following gentlemen 
were elected: — President, Mr. A. J. Watt; vice-president, Mr. A. G. Kebble- 
white ; treasurer, Mr. J. S. Abraham ; auditors, Messrs. G. C. Elliott and 
W. H. M‘Carthy; committee, Messrs. Donald, Selfe, Bellemey, and Wells. 
The rules and bye-laws were considered, and the full discussion referred to the 
committee for further report. The object of this association seems to be the 
supplementing the work of the Pharmaceutical Society, and doing the trade 
work, while to the Society is to be left the scientific work of the trade. The 
two departments may prosper if separately worked, but there are not a few 
