V- 3. no. 3 r ; Si -89 C 
March, 1881. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
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INDEX TO LITERARY CONTENTS. 
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Leading Article— 
The School of Pharmacy 81 
Meetings — 
The Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria 81 
The Pharmaceutical Society of New 
South Wales 82 
Sandhurst 82 
Scientific Summary 82 
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In Memoriam— 
Prosper Vincent Ramel 83 
John Steniiouse, F.R.S 83 
Fire at St. Arnaud 83 
Personalities 84 
Notes on a hitherto Undefined Species 
of Encepiialartos 84 
Correspondence 85 
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Annual Cricket Match 85 
A New Method for Examination of Coffee 86 
Dust, Rain, and Fog 86 
Vapours for Inhalation 86 
Contributions to the Examination of Wine 86 
Melbourne International Exhibition 87 
Preparation of Olive Oil 87 
Notes and Abstracts 88 
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MARRIAGES. 
Blanche — Aughtie. — On the 5th March, at the Wesleyan Parsonage, Mel- 
bourne, by the Rev. W. L. _ Binks, Thomas William, eldest son of J. F. 
Blanche, teacher, Tullamarine, to Elizabeth Laura, eldest daughter of 
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Stodd art— -Frith. — On the 9th March, at Upper Hawthorn, by the Rev. 
W. H. Fitchett, A. L. Stoddart, chemist, to Jennie, daughter of the late 
Joseph Frith, formerly of Geelong. 
THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY. 
This month will be marked in the history of pharmacy in 
this colony as one of great event — namely, by the 
establishment of the School of Pharmacy in connection 
with the Technological Museum. The Pharmaceutical 
Society not having been successful in obtaining a grant 
of land for the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable 
building, with lecture -hall, laboratories, rooms for 
museums and offices, &c., and the Board of Pharmacy 
having likewise failed to induce the senate of the 
Melbourne University to establish a chair for pharmacy, 
it was proposed by a member of the Pharmacy Board 
to try to arrange with the trustees of the Technological 
Museum, who willingly gratified the wishes of the Phar- 
macy Board. The large lecture-hall, as well as the 
laboratories and apparatus, are available ; and efficient 
and experienced lecturers will be nominated by the Phar- 
macy Board, under whose guidance, in connection with 
the scientific superintendent of the Industrial and Tech- 
nological Museum, Mr. J. Cosmo Newbery, the institute 
will be carried on. 
The courses will comprise : — 
I. Elementary Chemistry , the introductory lectures 
of which will include the principal physical forces and 
chemical philosophy, and then the study of— first, the 
non-metallic elements and their combinations, inter se; 
second, the metallic elements and their more important 
combinations. Organic chemistry will be treated in 
connection with botany and materia medica. 
II. Practical Chemistry. — In this division the students 
will go through a full course of qualitative analysis, the 
preparation of reagents, &c. 
III. Botany. — The lectures on botany will comprise 
morphology, physiology, the proximate and ultimate 
constituents of plants ; the systems of Linnaeus, Jussieu, 
and de Candolle ; descriptions of officinal plants, and the 
diagnoses of the more important natural orders will be 
illustrated by living and dried specimens. 
IV. Materia Medica and Pharmacy will be treated 
under the following heads : — 
1. Organic materia mednca — vegetable. The study of the 
officinal substances derived from the vegetable kingdom. 
2. Organic materia medica — animal. The study of the 
officinal substances derived from the animal kingdom. 
3. Mineral materia medica. The study of the chemicals 
of the British Pharmacopoeia will include the preparation 
of them practically, and the testing of their purity and 
strength volumetrically and otherwise will be carried out. 
4. Pharmacy will comprise an explanation of the 
principles and laws upon which the operations of the 
British Pharmacopoeia, dispensing, &c., are based. 
A prospectus will at once be issued, with a full synopsis 
of the course of instruction and a syllabus of subjects for 
examination, and it is to be hoped that the council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society and others will offer prizes, and 
thereby render our new institute in its aspirations and 
design in every respect identical with that of the School 
of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great 
Britain. 
Mzzimqs. 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA. 
The monthly meeting of the council was held at the rooms, No. 
4 Mutual Provident Buildings, Collins-street, on Friday, the 1st 
April, 1881. Present — Messrs. Blackett, Bowen, Gamble, 
Thomas, Swift, Huntsman, Francis, Baker, Jones, Hooper, 
Johnson, and Shillinglaw. 
The president, Mr. C. R. Blackett, in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and con- 
firmed. 
Election of Office-bearers for the Year 1881. 
President. — Mr. Blackett said the next business to be 
proceeded with was the election of office-bearers for the year. 
The first on the list was the office of president, and he felt 
great pleasure in proposing Mr. William Bowen. The motion 
was seconded by Mr. William Johnson, and carried unanimously. 
Mr. Blackett — “ I have great pleasure in informing you that 
you have been unanimously elected to the honourable position 
of president of this society.” 
Mr. Blackett then vacated the chair, which was taken by 
Mr. Bowen, who said — “ Gentlemen, allow me to thank you 
very much for the honour you have conferred on me by elect- 
ing me your president. I must ask you to join me in expres- 
sing our most cordial thanks to the gentleman who has just 
retired from this chair for the manner in which he has filled 
