THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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Blonip. 
The Pharmacy Board, on the advice of counsel, have decided to appeal to the 
Full Court against the decision given by the Chief Justice in the case of G. A. 
Dimock. 
The Pharmacy Board, at its last meeting, decided to add a number of 
additional articles to the schedules of the Sale and Use of Poisons Act. The 
list appears elsewhere. 
Dr. James Teague, whilst visiting his patients in Kew on Friday, the 6th 
August, was violently assaulted without any warning by a drunken man, who 
rushed out of a public-house and struck him a severe blow on the face in 
passing. 
At the last meeting of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society, Messrs. 
C. B. Blackett and Thos. Huntsman (representing the Pharmacy Board and 
Pharmaceutical Society) were appointed the delegates for Victoria to the Inter- 
colonial Pharmaceutical Conference. 
A photometer, an appliance for measuring the power of chemical rays in 
light, has been invented by Mr. H. Sutton, A.I.E., England, who resides in 
this colony. The appliance is calculated to be of great value to photographers 
particularly, as enabling them to arrive at a correct estimate of the exposure 
their plates will require in any light. 
Shepherd B. Corder, a member of the medical profession, was brought 
before the City Court on Wednesday, the 4th August, on a charge of attempted 
suicide. Corder was staying at Finlay’s Hotel, Spencer-street. He was found 
lying on the floor of his bedroom with his pocket-knife near him smeared with 
blood. Fie was remanded for medical treatment. 
The following are the dates of the Quarterly Examinations under the Pharmacy 
Act: — Preliminary, at Melbourne, Ballarat, Sandhurst, 1st September; Examination 
for the certificate of the College of Pharmacy, 2nd and 3rd September ; Modified 
Examination, 7th September; Practical Pharmacy, 6th and 7th September. The 
examinations will commence each day at 10 o’clock a.m. 
One of the largest printing contracts on record has been entered into 
between the manufacturer of a medical nostrum and a firm of printers in 
England. The bargain is for 40,000,000 pamphlets of thirty-two pages, and 
400,000,000 pamphlets of four-page circulars — the whole to cost over £200,000. 
The work is to be done in England, Germany, and America. 
The Government have recently accepted two large contracts for the supply 
of sulphur and arsenic, the successful tenderers being — for the sulphur, Messrs. 
Bocke, Tompsitt and Co ; and for the arsenic, Messrs. Felton, Grimwade and 
Co. A contract for the supply of some 4000 drums of bisulphide of carbon 
is now before the Tender Board, and was not decided when we went to Press. 
The British and Colonial Druggist of 26th June might appropriately be 
termed the Bosisto Humber, so much of its space being devoted to our famous 
chieftain. A sketch of Mr. Bosisto’s career is appropriately associated with a full- 
page portrait, and a detailed account of the Eucalyptus Distilleries of Messrs. 
J. Bosisto and Co. is accompanied by two illustrations of the scene of the 
works. 
The premises of Messrs. Straker Bros, and Co., the printers of the British 
and Colonial Druggist , were destroyed by fire on the 9th June, the whole of the 
type, electros, and copy of the paper being consumed. The issue of the 12th 
June, however, was duly issued, although anyone having any experience of pub- 
lishing will realise how sore must have been the strain upon the staff of our 
esteemed contemporary to avoid disappointing its readers. 
