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THE AU STEAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
We may add that upwards of a ton of the gum has been recovered, and we 
have shipped the whole to our agents, Messrs. Horner and Sons, Aldgate, by 
whom it will probably be placed upon the London market. 
J. T. Pocock and Co. 
6 Shortmarket- street, Cape Town, C.G-.H. 
N.B. — Perhaps you will kindly hand the sample to the curator of the Museum 
(Pharmaceutical Society) for exhibition. 
[It has been suggested that “ Cabeff ” may possibly refer to the district from 
which it was obtained. — Ed. A. J. P.] 
VISIT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL 
SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN TO THE COLONIAL 
AND INDIAN EXHIBITION. 
In response to the invitation of Mr. Bosisto, the members of the Council and 
the officers of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain paid a visit to the 
Victorian Court of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition on Tuesday, 1st June, 
when they had the advantage of inspecting, under the guidance of Mr. Bosisto 
and Mr. Thompson, the secretary to the Victorian Commission, the most inte- 
resting and important of the exhibits from the colony. The party was afterwards 
entertained at luncheon by Mr. Bosisto, who, in proposing the health of the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, expressed himself in the warmest terms 
in regard to the advantages he had derived from having been a student at the 
school of the society, and the pleasure he had taken in the establishment in 
Australia of a counterpart of the institution with which his early associations 
were so pleasantly connected. His services in carrying out the legislative enact- 
ments relating to pharmacy and in providing for the scientific education of 
pharmaceutical students were spoken of by the Hon. Graham Berry, the Agent- 
General of the colony, as having been most valuable. In fact, remarked Mr. 
Berry, it may be said that in this respect Mr. Bosisto has done for the colony 
what Jacob Bell did for Great Britain. 
At a meeting of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, held 
at Bloomsbury-square on the 2nd June, the president, Mr. Carteighe, moved the fol- 
lowing resolution: — “That this Council tenders its cordial thanks to Mr. Joseph 
Bosisto, M.P., President of the Victorian Commission of the Colonial and Indian 
Exhibition, for his kindness in personally showing to the Council and its officers the 
important and most interesting objects exhibited by the colony of Victoria ; and for 
the hospitality shown by Mr. Bosisto on that occasion. This Council further desires 
to express its high appreciation of the services rendered to pharmacy and 
pharmaceutical education by the successful efforts of Mr. Bosisto in obtaining a 
Pharmacy Act for Victoria.” 
He said it was a source of great pleasure to him to propose this resolution. 
Mr. Bosisto had been good enough to invite the Council of the Society and the 
officers to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, and to show, with the most pains- 
taking care, all the interesting and beautiful objects, both of industrial application 
and of natural history, exhibited by the colony of Victoria. He had further 
entertained them in the most handsome way at luncheon, bringing to meet them 
several distinguished guests, notably a learned expert who was interested in the 
Indian department, Dr. Watte, and also one of his own colleagues in the 
Parliament of Victoria— the Honourable Graham Berry, now Agent-General of 
the colony in Great Britain. They had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Berry’s 
opinion of Mr. Bosisto, and he need not remind them that Mr. Bosisto was one 
