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Mr. Hill then decided to more as above, and Mr. White seconded. This 
was carried, and the following members were nominated to form the committee, 
namely : — Messrs. Sowter, Hill, Long, and Porter. It was further decided that 
the committee report to the society three months after their appointment. 
It was moved by Mr. Hill that the next monthly meeting be advertised 
once in order to give notice of its occurrence. Seconded and carried. 
This terminated the proceedings. 
There has been considerable talk in pharmaceutical circles here about the 
probability of a Medical Act being passed this session. The qualified members 
of the medical profession have been taking active steps to procure one, and there 
is no doubt but that they will use ail their influence to obtain the sanction of 
the Legislature, and, considering the reported large number of unqualified men- 
who have assumed titles they have no right to, the protection of those who 
have earned their qualifications by hard work, and of the public, from such 
dishonest assumption is certainly a most desirable thing. From some remarks 
made to certain pharmacists here, it seemed at first likely that the privileges 
of chemists would be seriously curtailed if the Act became law. It was said 
that a heavy penalty was to be attached to all cases of prescribing, and the 
members of the Pharmaceutical Society were preparing to make a most deter- 
mined resistance to any clause which would interfere with the time-honoured 
custom of supplying medicine for ailments of an unimportant character, which 
usage, far from having been injurious to the public, has undoubtedly been of 
great service. But it has since transpired that the proposed Medical Act does 
not restrict chemists’ rights, and as long as it is confined to properly protecting 
the qualified and the public against the so-called “doctor,” who has no honest 
claim to that title, it will, no doubt, meet with the hearty approval of all 
pharmacists. 
The chemists, together with other business people, are feeling the depression 
of trade, which has not yet passed from this colony, and there are two or three 
businesses in the market, but not, it appears, of any note ; and we are looking 
forward to the speedy return of more prosperous times, though, whether our 
hope will be justified as quickly as we desire it is difficult to say. 
At the last monthly meeting of the Royal Society, Mr. F. S. Crawford 
exhibited some olives from the plantation at the gaol attacked by a coccus- 
named Aspidiotus nerii. He explained that this coccus was not new to Adelaide* 
having been previously found on the oleander, English ivy, and jasmine, but this- 
was the first time that it had been known to attack the olive. Mr. Crawford 
called attention to a mistake made by Mr. Yan der Byl in his evidence before 
the Victorian commission on vegetable products. On that occasion this gentle- 
man said that the coccus, which had entirely stopped the growth of oranges 
within 150 miles of Cape Town, and was called there the “ Australian bug,” 
was common on acacia hedges about Adelaide. This was wrong, as the coccus 
in question did not attack the orange, and was of quite a different species to 
the so-called “ Australian bug,” which, although it could be found in some 
gardens about Adelaide, was not a native of this part of Australia. 
An inquest on the body of Daniel M’Allum, J.P., who died under some- 
what strange circumstances on Saturday, 22nd May, was held on the following 
Monday at Terlinga station. Dr. Aug. Engelhart, of Mount Pleasant, stated 
that on the Saturday he received a note from Mrs. M‘Allum stating that her 
husband had taken an overdose of laudanum. On arrival found life quite 
extinct. The lower jaw was dropping, the pupils of the eyes fixed, and the 
lower extremities getting cold. Made inquiries, when Mrs. M‘Allum handed 
