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Refeebing to Mr. A. H. Jackson’s appointment as Director and Lecturer 
of the College of Pharmacy, Melbourne, the British and Colonial Druggist 
gives the following interesting sketch of his career : — “ The gentleman 
appointed is the latest addition to that ever-increasing band of Owens* College 
students who have been called to fill professorial chairs in all parts of the 
world, chiefly in connection with chemical science. Professor Jackson is an 
Associate of his College, and a member of Convocation of his University. More 
or less from 1870 to 1882 he studied in Owens’ College, working chiefly under 
Professors Roscoe and Schorlemner, and winning numerous prizes, exhibitions, 
etc., besides taking honours in chemistry at the London University. He passed 
the Preliminary Examination of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1866, the Minor 
in 1871, and the Major in 1878. In the pharmaceutical classes of Owens’ College 
he took every prize during his session, as he also did at Bloomsbury-square, 
where he also won the Council Silver Medal, together with the Bell and Hills’ 
prize of Books, in the Honours’ examination following the Major in 1878. As 
President of the Manchester Pharmacy Students’ Association, and as a member 
of the Council of the Manchester Pharmaceutical Association, Professor Jackson 
has been closely identified with the progress of pharmacy in Manchester. 
Amongst the papers from his pen may be mentioned those on “Dialysed Iron,” 
“ Oils of Cinnamon and Cassia,” and “ Tartar Emetic.” 
Me. E. M. Holmes, F.L.S., curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical 
Society of Great Britain, in an article on “ Oil of Sandal Wood,” contributed to 
the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, details the results of his analyses 
of various samples of the drug mentioned. He says that sandal oil might be 
adulterated with half its volume of cedar oil without being detected. Mr. Holmes 
raises the question as to whether the therapeutic property of the oil is due to 
true oil of sandal wood, to oil of cedar, or to the oil of the Yenezuela tree. 
He says: — “The speoies of the genus junijperus are known to have physiological 
effects on the urinary organs, and cedar oil may be possessed of as great, or 
greater therapeutic value than the sandal wood oil. Since all these oils are to be 
met with in commerce, it would be more satisfactory to know which is the most 
valuable remedy ; but this point is one to be determined by the medical pro. 
fession.” 
The ceremonial opening of a new chemical school in connection with the 
University College, Liverpool, took place in March. The building cost £15,000, 
and includes a lecture theatre with accommodation for 112 students. Mrs. Grant, 
of Rock Ferry, contributed the munificent gift of £10,000 to endow a chair of 
chemistry in connection with the institution. 
Thus the Provincial Medical Journal: — Peptones are now in the order of 
the day. It will not add to their popularity to have it stated in the Monthly 
Journal of Sciences that the excrements of dogs are collected in Paris and 
worked up into peptones and powdered extracts of meat. 
We extract the following appreciative notice of “ ourselves ” from the Phar- 
maceutical Journal of 13th March: — “We have received a copy of the first 
number of The Australasian Journal of Pharmacy, the new colonial journal that 
is to be henceforth issued by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia, and 
supplied gratis to the members of the Society. It consists, apart from advertise- 
ments, of 44 octavo pages, and in respect to its general contents is very creditable 
to the Society. One of the principal articles in it is a paper by Mr. C. R. 
Blackett, president of the Pharmacy Board, on 4 The New British Pharmacopoeia ! ” 
In its issue for 20th March our contemporary reprints at full length Mr. Bosist As 
paper on “ The Materia Medica of the Eucalyptus,” which appeared in our issue 
for January. 
