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By advertisement the Lands Department have invited tenders for a supply 
of arsenic, cotton waste, and phosjDliorus, to he used for the purpose of rabbit 
extirpation. 
Me. It. B. Dixon, who visited the Australasian colonies last year as the 
representative of Messrs. S. Maw, Son and Thompson, has just returned to 
England after a tour through India for that firm. 
Me. F. M. Pitchee, late with Messrs. Burgoyne, Burbidges, Cyriax and 
Farries, has recently arrived in the John Elder , under engagement to Messrs. 
Felton, Grim wade and Co., of Melbourne, to take charge of their laboratory. 
Messes. Heney Davy and Co., of Elizabeth-street, Melbourne, have removed 
the wholesale portion of their business to new premises at Ho. 34 Lonsdale- 
street west, Melbourne, where, in future, this branch of their business will be 
conducted. 
The pharmacy of Mr. G. T. Le Couteur, at Piper- street, Kyneton, has been 
sold to Mr. E. T. Church, through Messrs. Felton, Grim wade and Co., who 
have also concluded the sale of the business of Mr. T. O. Dunstone, at High- 
street, St. Hilda, to Mr. A. Andrews, of Beaufort. 
Messes. Kilnee Beos., of King's Cross, London, writing under date of the 
14th May, desire us to mention that, anticipating that a number of their foreign 
customers will be visiting the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, they have provided 
accommodation for their correspondence at their offices, King's Cross. 
A few copies of the Chemists and Druggists Diary for 1886 can be 
obtained gratis on application to Mr. Shillinglaw, at the College of Pharmacy, 
Swanst on- street. Preparations are now being made to issue, next year, a diary 
specially adapted to Australasian pharmacists, in connection with the Austra- 
lasian Journal of Pharmacy, and which will be supplied gratis to all subscribers 
to that 'journal, and to the members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Austra- 
lasia in New South Wales, Victoria, Hew Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, 
Tasmania, Western Australia, and Fiji. 
Select Extea Teopical Plants," by Baron Sir F. Von Mueller, from the Govern- 
ment of Victoria. 
Course of study, lectures, &c., at the Canterbury College School of Arts, 
Christchurch, Hew Zealand. 
Journal de Medecine de Paris. 
The British and Colonial Druggist, the Pharmaceutical Journal, the 
Victorian Naturalist, the American Druggist, the Provincial Medical Journal, 
the British Medical Journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, 
the American Journal of Pharmacy, the Australian Medical Journal, the 
Therapeutic Gazette , the Australasian Medical Gazette, the Medical Press, the 
Midland Medical Miscellany, the Analyst, the Pharmaceutical Record. 
Obituaey. — The death is announced of Mr. Peter Williamson, one of the 
founders of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, in his 91st year. He was 
secretary at the meeting held on 23rd February, 1821, when the organisation 
of a College of Apothecaries was resolved upon, and he presided over the 
meeting held on 23rd February, 1871, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of 
its foundation. The deceased occupied many other positions of honour and trust. 
