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occasion should be of a very cheerful cast, and its somewhat pathetic character 
may be judged from the following selected paragraphs : — - 
In October your Council called a meeting of the members of the society, and 
also of the chemists and druggists in general, by circular and advertisement, for the 
purpose of considering the Pharmacy Bill as printed in the Journal. At this Jive 
attended. When during the year a meeting of the chemists and druggists was held 
for a purpose affecting their pecuniary interests, then there was a full attendance. 
Your Council gladly acknowledge the cheerful aid they have received from many 
of the members, although, viewing the society as a whole, they regret the apathy 
manifested. This may arise from the circumstance that since the society’s formation 
it has succeeded in destroying unkindly elements both in and out of the trade, and 
therefore the members argue that nothing more need be done. 
But, notwithstanding this state of affairs, there is no sign of giving in on the 
part of these fathers of Victorian pharmacy, who continue as follows : — 
Your Council would faithfully remind the members of the society, and pharmacists in 
general, that pharmacy in Victoria needs much developing, and that so long as the 
present Council exists it will not relinquish this object. 
With men of this stamp to lead, success, however long deferred, was an 
ultimate certainty. 
The balance-sheet for the year showed : — Receipts (including balance from 
previous year, £29 11s. 10d.), £165 16s. lOd; disbursements, £154 17s. 8d; 
balance in hand, £10 19s. 2d. With the hope of inducing an influx of 
members, it was decided to reduce the subscription to 21s. for members, and 
10s. 6d. for associates. Messrs. Lewis, Bosisto, Johnson, and Williams the 
retiring members of council, were re-elected ; and votes of thanks to Dr. Mueller 
and other gentlemen who had rendered assistance to the society, to Mr. W. 
Johnson, editor of the Journal , and to Mr. Kruse, the hon. secretary, terminated 
the record of the society’s third year of existence. 
(To be continued .) 
NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS; 
Described by Baron Von. Mueller, K.C.M.Gr., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 
Atriplex conduplicata. 
Branchlets very thin, almost glabrous ; leaves rather small, obovate-or 
lanceolar-cuneate, entire or slightly denticulated, grey from a very thin indument ; 
staminate and pistillate flowers on the same plant ; the former in minute clusters, 
the latter often scattered, all axillary or becoming lateral ; fruiting calyx semiovate- 
deltoid in outline, sessile, membranous throughout, truncate at the base, 
expanding into two entire almost erect membranes, the latter nearly as broad as 
the seed- bearing cavity and surpassing the compressed-conical minutely bilobed 
summit ; seed smooth ; radicle bent downward. 
In the vicinity of the Darling-River and some of its tributaries; C. King, L. 
Singleton. 
An erect shrub, not tall. Leaves attaining a length of nearly one inch, of 
rather thin texture. Staminate glomerules situated at the upper part of the 
branchlets. Fruiting calyces attaining a length and width of half an inch, pale, 
glabrous, net-veined, almost dimidiated by the surrounding membrane being folded 
upwards into two halves. Cavity basal, in comparison to the expanding membrane 
small. 
Similar in habit and leaves to A. halimoides, but very different as regards 
fruit, the membranous expansion being almost vertically doubled up, and the 
seminiferous portion very small and sunk within, while the fruit-calyx of 
A. halimoides is very similar to that of the recently described Kochia spongiocarpa. 
The broad basal truncation of the fruit-calyx is quite peculiar to A. conduplicata. 
