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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
stupefaction ; others again begin their corroboree ; and the different effects on 
different aboriginals are just as apparent as the very different effects alcoholic 
liquors have on others of the genus homo. On completion of the chewing and 
passing round business it generally finds its way back to the original preparer, 
who disposes of it by sticking it behind his ear for future consumption. The 
pitcherie is an extensive article of trade among the blacks, the happy possessors 
being able to obtain in exchange for it any article dear to the aboriginal heart 
from their less fortunate black brethren, and I am informed on good authority 
that it finds its way to the tribes on the Diamantina on the one side and to the 
Gregory River natives on the other side of the circumscribed area wherein it is 
obtained/’ 
We regret to announce that Mr. Frank Taylor, the registrar of the Queensland 
Pharmacy Board, is laid up with typhoid fever, evidently aggravated by the 
worry and trouble of the late examinations. 
At Maryborough recently a boy named Perry, who had been suffering from 
lock-jaw, was reported on 18th June to have obtained great relief, and, in fact, 
to be recovering, by means of injected morphia. The results proved to be 
only temporary, however, for the little sufferer died on 24th June in fearful 
agony. 
The Pharmacy Board have made the following regulation : — “ The Pharmaceu- 
tical Society of New South Wales, and the Pharmacy Boards of the colonies of 
New Zealand and Victoria, will respectively be provisionally recognised by the 
Pharmacy Board of Queensland as Boards of Pharmacy under the Act until the 
1st day of May, 1887, so that persons holding certificates from those authorities 
may be provisionally registered in Queensland ; but such registration will not 
have effect after that date unless other regulations are made in the mean- 
time.” 
Mr. Taylor (Berkley, Taylor and Co.) has returned from the north. He 
gives but a poor account of the condition of business all along the coast. 
We republish from the Brisbane Courier , of the 26th June, the following 
letter : — 
PHARMACY BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 
Sir, — It is, I think, hardly proper that such special subjects as the above 
examinations should be discussed in the public papers, but it seems to be 
unavoidable. 
The letter of “An Unsuccessful Candidate” in a late issue of the Courier , 
and the statements of some other unsuccessful ones, would seem to indicate 
that the examination was exceptionally difficult, and the viva voce questions 
unduly severe. In justice to myself and other examiners I cannot let this pass 
without protest. The writer of the letter seems to feel it a grievance that the 
ground covered was so extensive, saying that he asked one of the examiners 
and was told that the examination would be solely on the Pharmacopoeia. I 
feel sure he is mistaken about any examiner telling him so. Possibly some 
member of the board might have done this ; that 1 do not know. 
The fact is that it does not rest with us to examine in whatever we choose. 
The Pharmacy Act distinctly states that we shall examine in botany, chemistry, 
materia medica, pharmacy, and practical dispensing. It seems to have been an 
especial grievance that there should have been an examination in botany, but 
we were obliged to do so, and, as regards the questions in that subject, I can 
only say that anyone who had read even the most elementary shilling book on 
botany would have been enabled to pass easily. Indeed, the questions were 
