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The new rule exacting a registration fee of 6d. from all patients attending 
the Ballarat Hospital gave a return for three days of £6 18s. It is estimated 
that revenue to the amount of £300 will be raised by these fees. 
Mr. Joseph Bosisto, writing from London on the 22nd April, speaks in 
glowing terms of the very flattering manner he has been received at Blooms- 
bury-square. He was invited to the annual dinner of the society, to be held 
on the 18th May, and an account of which we Lope to give in our next. 
At the meeting of the Council of the School of Mines, Ballarat, held on 
Wednesday night, the 9th June, Mr. J. Martell’s proposal that lectures in 
chemistry should be given in the different state schools of Ballarat by the 
school lecturers was unanimously adopted, conditionally on its meeting with the 
approval of the local boards of advice. 
We regret exceedingly to state that the health of Mr. E. Bage (Messrs. 
Felton, Grimwade and Co.) is in anything but a satisfactory state, and he has 
been again compelled to give up active business. We understand Mr. Bage 
leaves by the next mail for a six months’ trip to Honolulu, and hope the change 
and rest will restore him to good health. 
At a meeting of the Medical Board, held at the offices of the Central 
Board of Health on Friday, the 4th June, the following medical gentlemen were 
registered and admitted to practise in this colony : — Wm. Finlay, M.D., San 
Francisco ; Geo. Bd. Lawrence, M.E.C.S., L.S.A. (Loud.), Fitzroy ; Hy. Eobt. 
Salmon, M.B., Ch.B., Melbourne ; and Geo. Thos. Howard, M.B. and Ch.B., 
Melbourne. 
Mr. Pearson, the agricultural chemist to the Yictorian Government, has 
inspected the plots of thistles at Bungarse which he treated some weeks ago 
with various chemicals, and found that in those treated with acids and with 
chloride of lime the thistles were destroyed to a depth of 18in. He is now 
trying a preparation of arsenic, and his report on all his experiments may be 
expected shortly. 
Information has been received that at the recent examinations at the 
Boyal College of Surgeons, London, Dr. Arthur Augustus Fletcher, son of Dr. 
E. Fletcher, of Carlton, obtained the diploma of M.B.C.S.E. Dr. A. A. 
Fletcher had previously taken the degrees of M.B. and Ch.B., Melbourne 
University, and was for twelve months— 1884-5— one of the resident surgeons at 
the Melbourne Hospital. 
The students at the College of Pharmacy visited the Botanical Gardens 
with Mr. D. M £ Alpine, the lecturer on botany, on the 1st inst., and examined 
chiefly fruits and seeds belonging to various medicinal plants. On the 2nd inst. 
there was a terminal examination in botany, which resulted in the students being 
placed in the following order of merit : — Steedman, Edwards, Cranstown, Blackie, 
Turner, Netherway, Both, and Cowl. 
Dr. B. H. I. Fetherston (son of Dr. Fetherston, of Melbourne) has 
taken honours in three subjects in Edinburgh. By the last mail information 
has been received that this young Victorian has been invited by Professor 
Greenfleld to undertake the office of demonstrator of practical pathology in the 
University of Edinburgh. This he has accepted. Mr. Fetherston was previously 
demonstrator of anatomy, Boyal College of Surgeons, Ireland. 
The Council of Agricultural Education took into consideration at its meeting 
on Thursday, 1st June, a letter from a French company to be formed in this 
colony for the purpose of giving special attention to such branches of agriculture 
as the cultivation of the vine, olive, scented plants for perfumery, medicinal 
