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conducting their investigations. It was complained that much needless litigation 
was the result of the present Act and its administration. The hill would 
moderate the power of the Patent Office, and provide for an appeal against its 
decisions to a judge, and would lessen the cost to the patentees. The motion 
was agreed to. 
Mr. S. J. Parke has purchased the business recently carried on by the late 
Mr. L. B. Bush, Summer Hills, Sydney. Mr. Parke has had experience 
extending over ten years in the leading pharmacies of Sydney, including those 
of Messrs. F. Senior and J. S. Abraham and Mr. H. Sadler. 
Among the patents worthy of notice granted during the past month was 
one for an improved method of tapping vessels containing liquids, granted to 
D. M‘Gregor, of Moss Vale. It is especially intended for kerosene tins, oil 
drums, and chemists* vessels. 
The old established business of Mr. Mitchell in King-street has just changed 
hands, his successor being Mr. Rignold, late of Bega. 
Mr. Walter Jones has opened a pharmacy in George-street West. 
Mr. R. Matthews has removed to Junee Junction, where he has started a 
new business. 
Mr. Cosmo Newberry has been on a visit to Sydney on a mission from the 
Central Board of Health, Melbourne. 
Mr. F. Wright delivered two very instructive lectures at the Technical 
College Hall, Sydney, during the past month on “ Corrosive Poisons.’* 
Mr. A. J. Watt, chemist, of George-street, Sydney, has resigned his posi- 
tions as member of the Pharmaceutical Council and of the Pharmacy Board of 
New South Wales. 
The firm of Lane, Tiffany and Co., of No. 6 Bligh-street, Sydney, has been 
dissolved by mutual consent, and the business will in future be carried on by 
Mr. W. H. H. Lane, under the style of W. H. H. Lane and Co. 
Mr. Edwin Quayle, who, we are pleased to learn, has been elected a 
member of the Royal Society of New South Wales, still continues his weekly 
lectures on pharmacy, materia medica, and chemistry at the Pharmaceutical 
Society’s rooms, and great interest appears to be manifested by those attending 
them. The society has also granted the free use of its library to the students 
attending these lectures and the usual classes. This is very encouraging, and 
should certainly be an additional incentive to work and progress on the part 
of the students, to whom, moreover, these lectures and classes are also free. The 
fourth lecture of the course was delivered by Mr. Quayle on Thursday evening, 
the 15th July, the subject being “ Dispensing.” The lecturer fully explained the 
numerous precautions to be observed, and the various points to be attended to, 
in the dispensing of the different forms of magistral formulas, practically illus- 
trating the manner in which it is most desirable that drugs should be dispensed. 
The utmost care and exactness in the weighing of solids and the measurement 
of fluids was insisted upon, the lecturer pointing out in this connection that 
the scales should be accurate, and kept perfectly clean, and that the measure- 
glasses should be similarly graduated on both sides. In measuring liquids the 
glass should be so held that the liquid is on a level with the eye, and the general 
surface of the liquid is to be brought up to the graduation indicating the 
quantity required. The long, narrow, finely-graduated and partially- enamelled 
measure-glasses were alluded to as a considerable improvement on the common 
form of measure-glasses, more especially for the measurement of minims ; and 
it was also shown that the expressions “ drops” and “ minims” should not be 
understood to be synonymous, since a fluid drachm of distilled water is 
equivalent to about 45 drops, whereas a fluid drachm of the tincture of opium 
