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names as follows : — Mr. Bowen, president of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Australasia ; Mr. D. S. Kemp, of Bombay ; Dr. Kernot, of Bengal ; Dr. Trimen, 
of Ceylon ; and Mr. Herbert Kocke, of Melbourne. Mr. Bosisto, it was stated 
was unable to attend, as he was then at work inspecting the wine-growing district, 
of Europe. The president heartily expressed the great pleasure he had in 
welcoming the guests, to which a suitable reply was made on their behalf by 
Mr. D. S. Kemp. 
On Monday evening, the 4th October, the introductory lecture to a course 
of biology was delivered in the College of Pharmacy by Mr. M‘ Alpine. The 
hall was well filled, and Mr. C. K. Blackett presided. The lecture was entitled 
“The Boundary Line between Plant and xlnimal Life.” It was announced 
that the class would be continued on Mondays and Fridays during October 
and November. Each lecture will be fully illustrated by diagrams, fresh and 
dried specimens, and microscopic preparations where necessary. A special 
feature of the course will be Saturday afternoon excursions to places of botanical 
interest in the neighbourhood. The Victorian natural orders will be studied in 
the field, and a gentleman thoroughly conversant with the flora will be 
responsible for the naming of all specimens. Students will thus have an 
opportunity of forming a private collection, and a prize will be offered at the 
end of the session for the best collection of dried plants, to be decided by 
Baron Mueller. 
The British and Colonial Druggist , of 21st August, publishes the result of 
an interview, in which Mr. Alfred Felton (of Messrs. Felton, G-rimwade & Co.) 
communicated to our contemporary a large amount of information in regard to 
Australian pharmacy, and the general resources of the colonies, which will, no 
doubt, have been read with great interest by pharmacists throughout G-reat 
Britain. Naturally our contemporary was anxious to obtain Mr. Felton’s views 
of English as against American preparations, and was frankly told that, although 
English manufacturers command the market now, they will have to bestir them- 
selves, and use all their intelligence to thoroughly adapt their goods to the colonial 
requirements, or they will lose ground. Since leaving Melbourne, Mr. Felton has 
visited all round our Indian Empire, from Colombo to the Kyber Pass, thence 
down the Nile, through Palestine and Syria, reaching Western Europe, via Athens 
and Constantinople, by the Oriental Express route. In Ceylon he was very much 
interested in the cardamoms, which he saw being produced on the estates. It 
was also interesting, he said, to see the forests of chinchona, “ so vast that 
there is not likely to be any difficulty in the supply of the bark for some 
time to come. Indeed,” added Mr. Felton, “ had I known of the existence 
of these forests last year I should not have anticipated a rise in quinine, 
which, by-the-bye, failed to come.” 
(From our Special Correspondent.) 
Sydney, 14th October. 
The adjourned monthly meeting of the council of the Pharmaceutical Society was 
held at the society’s rooms on Thursday, 23rd September, all the members being 
present. The proposed Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference was discussed, 
and Messrs. Melhuish and Mayne, the appointed delegates, were requested to 
draw up a programme of what they intended to do at it, to be presented at the 
next monthly meeting of the society, on Tuesday, 5th October. 
At the monthly meeting on Tuesday, 5th October, the business was “ The 
Conference and so much had to be done in relation to it that the meeting 
