November, 1880. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
49 
INDEX TO LITERARY CONTENTS. 
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Leading Article— 
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The Annual Dinner m 
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Costless Ventilation 54 
The Month 50 
Social Science Congress 53 
Correspondence 54 
Notes and Abstracts * * ’ 55 
Notes on Nitrite ok Amyl ^5 
Meetings — 
The Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria 50 
Tiie Pharmacy Board of Victoria 50 
University of Melbourne 53 
The Pharmacy Board Examinations 53 
Ballarat 53 
Melbourne International Exhibition 56 
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BIRTHS. 
Fullwood.— On the 19th November, at Barldy and Canning streets, 
Carlton, the wife of R. Jackson Fullwood, chemist, of a daughter 
Thompson -On the 25th November, at 122 Bourke-street East, the wife of 
J. D. Thompson of a daughter. 
MARRIAGES. 
Simpson— James. —On the 24th November, at the residence of the bride’s 
parents, Gore-street, Fitzroy, by the Rev. W. L. Binks, David Arthur 
youngest son of John Simpson, of Carlton, to Sara, only daughter of 
Joseph James, of Fitzroy. ° 
Hogartii— Don.— On the 25th November, at the residence of the bride’s 
parente by the Rev Andrew Hardie, William Peel, eldest son of the late 
Mr. William Hogarth, of Connell, Hogarth and Co., merchants, Mel- 
bourne, to Marion Katarme (Minnie), eldest daughter of Mr. J. W Don 
Richmond. » 
R< r^ m^ P T n f ^° n f thG f 2 w h ^ember, by special licence, at St. John’s 
Church, Latrobe-street West, Melbourne, by the Rev, Canon Chase 
assisted by the Rev Walter W. Mantell, of Essendon, Walter M. Rowley, 
chemist, of 8 Bourke-street East, Melbourne, second son of the late 
George William Rowley, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, to 
Florence Ada Pyne eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Pyne, of West Mel- 
sMre?En g gfand Ug 6r ° f ^ ^ George ***** ^Bristol, Gloucester- 
DEATH. 
Hackett— On the 1st December, at 203 Bourke-street East, Thomas 
Masteis, second son of Thomas Hackett, aged sixteen years. 
ADDRESS TO STUDENTS. 
The Chemical News of 17th September has the following 
excellent address to students. The observations, both 
to those who are about to commence their studies and 
also to examiners, are so admirable that we feel confident 
that the article will be read with profit and pleasure. As 
the writer says, ‘ 4 Examinations are only a means, real 
or supposed, to a certain end, and not the end itself.” Our 
youths must be taught and impressed with the idea that 
they must study “ to know” as well as “pass,” or the 
result will be disastrous, and end in intellectual debase- 
ment and futility. We therefore venture to think that 
this timely and judicious advice may have a salutary 
effect: — 
“The duty or the policy — and the two are here iden- 
tical — of a man entering upon any course of serious study 
is not as simple as was the case in former days. We 
refer not merely to the vastly increased extent of every 
science, to the enhanced accuracy now expected in all 
investigations, or to the rapid progress made in every 
department, which frequently compels us to revise before 
the end of the year views which we had adopted at its 
beginning. There is another and a more perplexing dif- 
ficulty. Formerly, and even at present in some countries, 
the student had to keep in view one paramount object 
only. To whatever science he had devoted himself he 
had to make himself thoroughly master of its principles 
and its methods. The purpose of study was not so much 
to acquire a mere summary of what had already been 
discovered by others, as to become capable of continuing 
their work and of adding to the stores of truth which they 
had accumulated. The power of effecting such continua- 
tions and of making such additions is surely the best, the 
all-sufficient proof that the student’s time has not been 
misspent. 
“But in higher education, as conducted in modern 
England, this unity pf purpose no longer exists, and this 
test of proficiency is no longer accepted. The student 
is required not merely to make himself, if possible, 
thoroughly acquainted with his subject, but to satisfy 
certain official persons that he has obtained such an 
acquaintance. If he does not succeed in the latter object 
his actual proficiency in the science in question will be of 
no avail. And if a due knowledge of such science be a 
part of the preparation required for some professional 
career, his time will have been in one sense wasted. Hence 
this latter object assumes the preponderance — the shadow 
outweighs the substance— and, in the never-to-be-forgotten 
words of Professor Huxley, we study in these days not to 
know but to ‘pass,’ the consequence being that we pass 
and don’t know. The difficulty, then, placed before the 
British student is how to combine the two purposes ; how, 
whilst qualifying himself to take a good position at an 
examination, he may at the same time become fitted for a 
career of research hereafter. We cannot, unfortunately, 
give any neat formula or recipe for compassing this object, 
but there are some considerations which may profitably 
be kept in mind. Let it be remembered that examina- 
tions are only a means, real or supposed, towards a 
certain end— not the end itself. When a man has got so 
far as to define, even in his secret thoughts, science as a 
mere something to be examined in, he is intellectually 
dead. In conjunction with this caution we must make a 
demand upon the moral nature of the student. We must 
exhort him, at whatever cost of time and labour, to eschew 
cram, including under the term all the tricks and dodges 
by which a really undisciplined mind is made to put on 'a 
