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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
The November number of the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy will contain 
a special report of the Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference, with, if possible, 
portraits of all the delegates. It will be sent, as a memento, to every pharmacist in 
the Australasian colonies, and some thousands of copies will be sent to all parts of 
the world. The number will offer the best means to advertisers of reaching the 
whole of the drug trade in Australasia that has, perhaps, ever occurred. 
The first lady surgeon qualified in Great Britain has been invested with 
the letters testimonial of the Irish College of Surgeons under the new powers 
granted to it by its charter of 1885. The lady is Mrs. Mary Emily Dowson, 
wife of a gentleman who is practising as an engineer in London. She obtained 
her education at the London School of Medicine for Females, and produced all 
the evidences for study required by the London College of Surgeons, besides 
her diploma of L.K.Q.C.P.I., which she had already obtained. 
Letters patent have been granted by the Attorney-General to Mr. H. J. G. 
Cattanach, of Sydney, for an improved [method of preparing a deodorant and 
disinfectant, the deodorant being prepared from an admixture of sulphate of 
iron, peroxide of manganese, and oil of eucalyptus of stated quantities boiled 
with water, thus forming a liquid which has no disinfecting properties, but, by 
the method of adding certain quantities of caustic soda and oxide of manganese 
to such mixture, a fluid is produced which forms the improved deodorant and 
disinfectant. 
We are pleased to state that we have made an exceptionally good arrangement 
for the distribution of this journal throughout the colony of New South Wales, 
where, we are glad to find, it is much esteemed for its straightforward and indepen- 
dent principles. It is the aim of the conductors of the Australasian Journal of 
Pharmacy that it should be an entirely independent journal, open to all, “ impartial 
and neutral,” its objects the elevation and advancement of pharmacy and the 
kindred arts, and it is exceedingly gratifying to us to find this is fully recognised 
by the large measure of support received from our friends in New South Wales. 
At the last committee meeting of the Sandhurst Juvenile and Industrial 
Exhibition Mr. R. Bloomfield Rees, of Eaglehawk, brought forward a suggestion 
that would be of great benefit, and which would stimulate the study of botany 
throughout the district. He suggested that there should be a herbarium in the 
exhibition, and the botanical and common names of the various plants affixed to 
them. He had seen such things in England and France, but in this colony 
visitors to the parks and gardens were sometimes at a loss to know what was the 
nature of the specimens they were looking at. Mr. Rees offered to donate £'5 5s. 
to be devoted to a prize for the best herbarium in the exhibition. The offer was 
accepted with thanks. 
THE DENTAL REGISTRATION ACT. 
A meeting of the Odontological and Pharmaceutical Societies was held at the College 
of Pharmacy on 25th July to consider the proposed Dental Act introduced into 
Parliament by Dr. Rose. There were present Messrs. J. Cumming, Townsend 
Thomson, and Iliffe from the Odontological Society, and Messrs. Francis, Huntsman, 
Tompsitt, and Shillinglaw from the Pharmaceutical Society. On the motion of 
Mr. Tompsitt, Mr. J. Cumming (president of the Odontological Society) took the 
chair. The clauses of the bill were read by the chairman, and discussed by the 
gentlemen present. The following is the clause agreed to, which provides for 
the registration of persons practising dentistry in conjunction with pharmacy 
before the passing of the Act, and which will entitle them to register as dentists : 
— “Any person who is, at the passing of this Act, bona fide engaged in any 
