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their art, thus leading the public to infer that the certificate of the Technical College 
is a qualification. Such is not the case, the Crown law officers having decided some 
time ago that no such power is vested in the Board of Technical Education ; and, 
moreover, that it would be inadvisable to confer such power on that body, the Board 
of Pharmacy being constituted the only qualifying body by Act of Parliament. No 
board of technical education, either in England or elsewhere, has the power to grant 
certificates or diplomas which entitle their holders to carry on the business of chemists 
and druggists. In conclusion, I may state that the Act of Incorporation sought for 
will simply regulate the admission of members into a private society, regulate the 
proceedings of the said society, and confer upon its members the title of pharmaceutical 
chemist. Certain insinuations regarding myself I decline to notice further.— I am, &c., 
W. T. PINHEY, 
Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
In a very sensible letter, subsequently published, Mr. R. T. Bellemey, 
pharmacist, Newtown, suggests that the principal fear actuating the writers of 
these attacks is that “any law should be passed which would protect the public 
from the imposition of uneducated, and, in many cases, unscrupulous and 
ignorant, impostors.” Having said which, however, Mr. Bellemey proceeds to 
argue that the State or Government is the proper body to lay down and enforce 
the principles and qualifications which such people (that is, chemists) should 
possess ; that the proper and only way to do this is by a law which in other 
colonies is called a Pharmacy Act, 'dealing with the qualifications of pharmacists 
and the sale and use of medicines and poisons ; and that in trying to accom- 
plish this object by means of an Incorporation Bill the Pharmaceutical Society 
is “ making a huge mistake, and a leap backward.” Whatever your opinion 
may be on this subject, you will, no doubt, heartily agree with Mr. Bellemey 
in the wish with which he concludes his letter, viz., that “the Government will 
be induced very shortly to introduce an Act similar to that which is conferring 
such benefits elsewhere.” Before passing from the subject, I may mention that 
at a recent meeting of the Technical Board, attention having been called to 
“'certain clauses of the bill affecting the certificates granted to students 
attending the pharmacy classes at the Technical College,” it was resolved — “ That 
objection be taken to the passage of the bill in its present form.” 
In the Assembly, on 27th August, the Medical Practitioners’ Bill was further 
considered in committee, and several clauses were passed. Sir Henry Parkes 
announced that he would resist the measure in every way he could unless 
Dr. Tarrant would consent to some liberal provision being made to save from 
ruin a large number of unregistered practitioners who had for years past been 
practising with acceptability to many people, especially in the country districts. 
Dr. Tarrant, however, refused to make any alterations in the principles of the 
measure, which he desired to be treated on its merits, and dealt with in this 
way only. 
At the monthly meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, on 25th 
August, among the papers read was one by Dr. Woolls, Ph.D., F.L.S., entitled 
a “ Note on Eucalyptus Leucosylon (F. v. M.)” In the Flora Australiensis, vol. 
3, two eucalypti previously regarded as distinct species (E. leucoxylon, F. v. M., 
and E. sidevoxylon, A. Cunn.) were united under the former name. Dr. Woolls 
has long thought that this step was a mistake, and in his paper he gave reasons, 
based upon the examinations of specimens of both forms, in favour of their 
specific distinctness, and of the restoration of Cunningham’s name to the red 
flowering ironbark of New South Wales, the other name being restricted to the 
white gum of Yictoria and South Australia. 
Mr. Frederick Wright gave a lecture at the Technical College Hall, Pitt- 
street, on Friday, 13th August, on “ Mercurial Poisoning,” to a large and appre- 
ciative audience. 
