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possessed by the Society was not made greater use of. On application to the 
secretary any of the books contained in the library could be obtained; and, as 
many of them were very expensive works, and might not otherwise be within 
the reach of students, it struck him as being rather an unfavourable sign that 
the applications for books were so few. He trusted, however, that this reproach 
might soon be removed, and that the rising generation of pharmacists would not 
content themselves with the bare amount of study necessary to enable them to 
pass their examinations, but would show themselves in every way worthy of the 
name of students. A materia medica museum was now in course of formation, 
and would, when completed, as he trusted it would be in the course of next 
month, be at least as perfect as any in the colonies. A sum of money had also 
been voted by the council towards the formation of a pharmaceutical laboratory, 
and the chief requisites had already been purchased, so that they might look 
forward at a very early date to being able to receive practical instruction in 
pharmacy and chemistry. Mr. Quayle added that he saw no reason why, with 
such an extensive and unexplored field as the flora of these colonies afforded, 
they should not produce worthy successors to Herepath, Squire, and other men 
distinguished in the domain of pharmacy and materia medica. Mr. Quayle gave 
his second lecture on the following Thursday evening, and the third on 7th inst 
The attendance of students, members of the Society, and visitors was large 
upon each occasion. Mr. Quayle’ s advocacy of the necessity for practical 
instruction in pharmacy and pharmaceutical processes appeared to meet with the 
cordial approval of his hearers, and the lecturer was accorded hearty votes of 
thanks at the conclusion of each address. 
A magisterial inquiry was held at Adamstown recently in connection with 
the sudden death of a young girl named Mary Ann Carnley. It appears that 
she returned from the Sunday-school, apparently in good health and spirits, 
and, going to her room, called her two sisters, and said, “ Good-bye, Martha 
and Harriet, I’m going to heaven.” She then asked to have her boots taken 
off, and this was hardly done before she gave a loud scream, and expired. 
Medical aid was sent for, but on arrival it was found that life was extinct. 
An empty bottle of pain-killer was found in the room. Dr. J. B. Hash, acting- 
coroner, after hearing the evidence of the mother and sister of the deceased, 
and that of Dr. Hedley, who made a 'post-mortem examination, came to the 
conclusion that deceased had died from the effects of some muriatic poison, 
which had probably been administered by herself. 
Intelligence has been received in Sydney of the death of Henry Jeanneret, 
M.D., at his residence, Cheltenham, England. Dr. Jeanneret was one of the 
early colonists, having arrived in 1828 in Sydney, where he for some years practised 
his profession ; but he afterwards entered the service of the Crown, and was 
appointed to various Tasmanian penal settlements, and lastly to the command 
of the civil, military, and aboriginal establishments on Flinders Island, where 
he remained until the dissolution of the settlement in 1849, when he returned 
to England. 
Dr. Lowes, who was for eighteen months one of the resident medical officers 
of the Sydney Hospital, which position he was compelled to resign about two 
months ago on account of failing health, died in that institution on 20th June, 
greatly regretted by everyone with whom his position had brought him in con- 
tact. 
A strangely-deformed infant has been born alive in Newcastle. Dr. Treloar 
says that it las a foot on the left arm, the right arm being contracted and 
reflected over the shoulder, and the hand having two fingers deformed. The legs 
are shaped naturally, but one foot has eight toes, which are webbed together, and 
the other foot has five webbed toes. 
