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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
plants, etc. It was also proposed to establish an agricultural college in connec- 
tion with the company, and the council was asked to make a grant to the 
company of one acre of land for every £10 of its subscribed capital. The 
council decided that it had no power to make such a grant. 
The quarterly examinations under the Pharmacy Act of Victoria were held 
at the College of Pharmacy on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th instant. There were 
eight candidates for the Preliminary Examination, of which five passed. Five 
students attended the College Examination for materia medica and botany, and 
two for chemistry. The two chemistry candidates passed, but none of those 
for materia medica and botany succeeded in passing. Nine candidates presented 
themselves for practical pharmacy, and four passed, and one passed the Modified 
Examination. The percentage of: successful candidates is smaller than usual. 
Mr. William Bowen, the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Australasia, who is at present making a tour of the world, writes from San 
Francisco, under date the 20th April. Mr. Bowen speaks of the kindness shown 
him while in Auckland, New Zealand, by Mr. Graves Aickin, a gentleman who 
some years ago visited Melbourne, and is well known to many of our readers. 
Mr. Bowen has visited the College of Pharmacy in San Francisco, and reports 
favourably of the pharmaceutical training in the State of California, which he 
considers resembles that adopted in Victoria, excepting that in America the 
examination is a voluntary matter. Mr. Bowen expected to reach London about 
the first week in June. 
It is gratifying to find Victorian students again successful in the class 
prize-lists of the University of Edinburgh. Among the successful students were 
Mr. Abraham Wheeler, of Melbourne, who took second class honours in practical 
chemistry; Mr. Percy Wisewould, of Melbourne, an old student at the College 
of Pharmacy, who obtained full marks and a medal in connection with the 
practical examination for anatomy for students of the third year, and second 
class honours in materia medica; Mr. John M‘Naughton, of Victoria, who 
secured second class honours in surgery for seniors, and a similar distinction in 
the junior division for midwifery ; Mr. R. H. J. Fetherston, of Melbourne, who 
carried oft' first class honours in materia medica, second class honours in the junior 
division of general pathology, and a similar distinction in practical pathology ; 
and Mr. Inglis Taylor, of Melbourne, who obtained second class honours in the 
junior division of the practice of physic. 
The principal business transacted at the meeting of the Melbourne University 
Council on Monday, 31st May, was the appointment of professors for the chairs of 
chemistry and mental and moral philosophy. The first name on the list of can- 
didates selected by the committee in London for the post of professor of 
chemistry was that of Dr. Masson, a son of the professor of English literature at 
Edinburgh University, and himself a master of arts, a doctor of science, and 
fellow of the Chemical Society. Dr. Masson, who is 28 years of age, was 
eventually, on the motion of Professor Irving, unanimously elected to the post. 
The appointment of Dr. Laurie from the lectureship on mental and moral 
philosophy to the professorial chair without competition was moved by Professor 
M‘Coy, and finally carried by nine votes to six. 
Among the passengers on board the P. and O. s.s. Tasmania , , which arrived 
on the 6th June, was Mr. Alfred H. Jackson, B.Sc., F.C.S., etc., who has come 
out from England to fill the post of Director of the College of Pharmacy. Mr. 
Jackson reports a very pleasant passage, and brings with him introductions from 
Prof. Sir H. E. Roscoe, under whose guidance he has worked for many years in the 
laboratories of the Owen’s College, Manchester. Mr. Jackson left London with 
the good wishes of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and the 
