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In the last number of the Australian Medical Journal Dr. 
Maloney contributes an interesting paper on the therapeutics 
of tea-drinking. 
The annual dinner of the Pharmaceutical Society, to be held 
at Clement’s Hotel on the 18th November, promises to be well 
attended by both town and country members ; there are, also, 
several visitors from England and the neighbouring colonies 
who are likely to be present. 
Apropos of Dr. Embling’s paper, read before the Social 
Science Congress, we may quote the following suggestions of 
Dr. Beyrauds. He says that a practical test by which real 
death may be recognised is the application of the cautery to 
the supposed corpse. If the eschar does not show itself, the 
subject is dead ; if it be yellow and transparent, the subject 
is dead ; if it be black or reddish-brown, the subject is 
living. 
A vacancy has occurred in the Pharmacy Board of Victoria 
by the resignation of Mr. R. F. Kennedy. The announcement 
of the returning officer in reference to the election to fill the 
vacancy appears in the advertising portion of this issue. We 
are, at the same time, requested to draw special attention to 
the time when the ballot-papers must be returned. At the last 
election a number of votes were informal in consequence of the 
papers not being received before four o’clock on the afternoon 
of the day preceding the election. 
We have received from Messrs. C. H. Grondona and Co. a 
sample of Schlobach’s eucalyptus tobacco. This is a new pre- 
paration, and it is stated that instead of being injurious to 
smokers it is beneficial, besides which, it emits a fragrance 
altogether unknown to ordinary tobacco, and is of great value 
as a disinfectant, especially where such epidemics as measles, 
fevers, &c., are prevalent, and in sick-rooms and all un- 
healthy localities. It also affords relief in cases of asthma, 
and all diseases of the chest. It is prepared solely in Mel- 
bourne. 
The circumlocution office and the Tite Barnacle family are 
admirably represented at our Melbourne University, where 
it is quite a crime “ to want to know, you know.” During the 
examination of the registrar of the University before the 
select committee at present sitting on the bill it came out in 
evidence that some three years ago the faculty of medicine had 
decided that it was desirable pharmaceutical education 
should be recognised and taught at the Melbourne University, 
and that an examiner in pharmacy should be appointed. This 
determination of the faculty of medicine to introduce persons 
connected with trade into the Melbourne University appears to 
have quite upset the Tite Barnacle mind, and, in consequence, 
we find every opposition and obstruction offered to the recom- 
mendation of the faculty of medicine. After the lapse of a 
year the matter was referred to the senate, and from thence 
to the council, who referred it back to the faculty of medicine, 
who referred it to the council, who reversed the decision pre- 
viously arrived at, and after two years’ departmental routine it 
was finally wiped out from the business paper. The greatest 
joke of all this appears in the fact that the Pharmacy Board, 
who were the persons most interested, were kept quite in the 
dark as to what was going on, and are not, as Sir Joseph 
Porter, K.C.B., remarks, even now “officially” informed of 
the fact. 
We are very much gratified to read that Dr. Attfield, F.R.S., 
so long the able and respected Professor of Chemistry to the 
Pharmaceutical Society, has received an address and a hand- 
October, 1880. 
some present of books (about five hundred volumes). No one 
who knows the Professor but will endorse every word said by 
Mr. Schact, upon whom devolved the duty of making the 
presentation on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Conference. 
From the remarks made by the President we cannot forbear 
quoting the following: — “For many years I have had the 
pleasure of an intimate acquaintance with our friend, and 
charging my memory to strict accuracy, I can trace through- 
out all my knowledge of him nothing but one steady, constant 
effort to lead a good and useful life. As to its goodness, this 
is not, perhaps, the place to speak, and I will not dilate upon it 
further than to say that I believe that side of his character to 
be the mainspring of the other. It may not be inappropriate, 
perhaps, to say just a word or two on the point of Professor 
Attfield’s usefulness in his public life, which is, indeed, the 
cause of what we are now doing, and explains the enthusiasm 
with which the project has been received. Broadly speaking, 
it occurs to me that the usefulness of our friend’s life has con- 
sisted in this, that he first of all achieved a high and dis- 
tinguished position for himself, and from that moment he has 
endeavoured to hold up both for our admiration and achieve- 
ment that higher life of mental culture which is so plainly 
open to us in the very nature of our calling, but which we are 
very prone to forget in the experiences of business. It seems 
to me it has been in that constant protest against pharmacists 
sinking into anything like perfunctory drudges, and in his 
recommendation of the only genuine remedy for that, viz., 
that each man should do something, or at least try to do some- 
thing, for the general good, that the main influence of Professor 
Attfield has rested.” 
Electing. 
THE PHARMACY BOARD OF VICTORIA. 
The monthly meeting of the board was held on the 13th 
October. Present— Messrs. Bosisto, Brind, Power, Lewis, 
Holds worth, and Kruse. 
The President (Mr. J. Bosisto, M.P.)in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and con- 
firmed. 
Applications for Registration. — The following persons 
were registered Henry James Massey, Emerald Hill ; James 
Edward Gribble, Castlemaine, and William Gray, East Mel- 
bourne. These three passed the modified examination. 
Robert Soppet, St. Kilda, certificate Pharmaceutical Society of 
Great Britain ; John Davidson, Stanthorpe, Queensland, in 
business before passing of Act ; William Paul Green, 
Geelong ; and Robert Dalziell Murray, Sandhurst Hospital, 
were restored to the Register. 
Apprentices Indentures Registered.— John Kennedy Peter- 
son and William Alexander Taylor, both of Stawell. 
Name Erased from the Register —A. certificate of death of 
Theodore W. Jones, late of Warrnambool, was received, and his 
name erased from the Register. 
School of Pharmacy . — Mr. Bowen’s motion on this subject 
was postponed until the next meeting, when the nature of the 
report of the Select Committee on the University Bill will be 
known. 
The Major Examination. — The first practical pharmacy ex- 
amination under the major examination was fixed to be held 
in the presence of the whole Board on the 3rd December, 1880. 
Resignation of Mr. R. F. Kennedy .—Mr. Kennedy for- 
warded his resignation as a member of the Board, which, on 
the motion of Mr. Lewis, was accepted with regret. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
