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April, 1880. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
91 
INDEX TO LITERARY CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
The Month 91 
Meeting — 
The Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria 92 
Scientific Summary 93 
Lectures, &c 93 
PAGE 
Ballarat 94 
My First Aquarium 95 
Legal and Magisterial 95 
Prosecution of an Unregistered Chemist 96 
Notes and Abstracts 96 
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Correspondence 97 
Manufacture of Olive Oil in Southern 
France 93 
Selling Poison to Children . . ” 98 
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DEATHS. 
Jessop.— O n the 15th August, 1877, at his father’s residence, 57 Wellington- 
road, Rhyl, North Wales, Edmond James Jessop (formerly chemist, 
Prahran), aged twenty-five years, of phthisis. 
Longstaff.— On the 4th May, at Victoria-street, Ballarat, Joseph Long- 
staff, aged forty-five years. 
Proctor.— O n 21st April, at the Ballarat Hospital, John Cameron 
Proctor, aged fifty-five. 
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posed to have been drowned in the Yarra in 1875. He did 
not meet with that fate, however, but went clandestinely to 
the old country, where he died at his father’s residence, in 
North Wales, in 1877. His widow, who resides in Melbourne, 
did not receive intelligence of the death until the last English 
mail came in. 
The half-yearly meeting of the Australian Health Society 
was held at the Town Hall on the 21st April, the Mayor of 
Melbourne being in the chair. Among those present there were 
seven members of the medical profession. The mayor, in his 
introductory remarks, referred to the services the society had 
rendered to the community in the way of spreading a know- 
ledge of the laws of health. There was no report presented, 
this meeting being only intended to bring the members 
together, and to draw attention to the society and its opera- 
tions, and to afford an opportunity for submitting some 
questions for discussion. A paper was read by Mr. Thomas 
Brodribb on * ‘Trained Nurses,” in which he insisted specially 
on the need of a better class of nurses, and on the desirability 
of providing some means for the systematic training of those 
wishing to follow nursing as a profession. Several of those 
present, including medical men, spoke of the great want 
of good nurses in Melbourne, * Mrs. J. Webster then read 
a paper on ** The Smoke Nuisance in Melbourne, 5 ’ and in- 
sisted on action being taken before the citizens became so 
much accustomed to the annoyance that they would cease to 
recognise it, and before vested interests became powerful. 
Votes of thanks to those who had prepared papers, and to the 
mayor for taking the chair, closed the proceedings, the chair- 
man expressing the opinion that no society or institution in 
the city did more genuine work in proportion to its means 
than the Australian Health Society. 
The Governor-in- Council has appointed Mr. Bosisto, M.P., and 
Mr. C. R. Blackett as members of the commission for promot- 
ing technological and industrial education. The Hon. F. S. 
Dobson, LL.D., M.L.C., and Mr. W. C. Kernot, M.A., of the 
Melbourne University, have also been appointed. 
Mr. Joseph Bosisto, M.L.A., has been appointed a member 
of the council of the Ballarat School of Mines, vice Sir C. 
Gavan Duffy, resigned. 
At the meeting of the Victorian branch of the British 
Medical Association, held on the 1 6th April, a lengthy discus- 
sion took place with respect to the advisability of establishing 
paying hospitals in Melbourne. The chairman, Mr. Gillbee, 
strongly urged the desirability of providing such institutions, 
«,nd mentioned that a company was in course of formation 
which will carry out the project. Plans of a large hospital 
suitable for the purpose were submitted, and after a short dis- 
cussion the meeting unanimously passed a motion in favour of 
the project in question, which will probably be brought before 
the public in a more tangible form shortly. 
From the Argus of the 15th April we extract the following : 
— “ The announcement in our advertising columns of the 
death of Edmond James Jessop, formerly chemist, of Prahran, 
is one to which peculiar interest attaches. Jessop was sup- 
The Microscopical Society of Victoria held its monthly 
meeting on the 29th April. There was a fair attendance of 
members, and Mr. E. Bage was proposed as a new member. 
The president, Mr. T. S. Ralph, read translations of three 
interesting papers from the transactions of the Belgian Micro- 
scopical Society— viz., “ On Staining with Picric Acid,” “ On 
Preserving Infusoria by Means of Osmic Acid,” and “ On the 
Thallus of Diatoms.” The latter occasioned considerable dis- 
cussion, during which several points were raised of interest to 
microscopists. Mr. J. R. Y. Goldstein described and figured 
a new genus in the class Polyzoa, and named it Stirpsaria, in 
the family Bicellariadae ; also two new species of Serialaria— 
viz., S. immensa and S. intermedia. A collection of diatoma- 
ceous deposits, being a donation from Dr. Hector, of New 
Zealand, was then distributed amongst the members, and a 
pleasant conversazione terminated the proceedings. 
The general public is, perhaps, more interested than it has 
yet realised in the decision given recently by the Court of 
Appeal in the action brought by the Pharmaceutical Society 
of Great Britain against the London and Provincial Supply 
Association. The suit was instituted in order to try the right 
of the defendant company to keep a store for the sale of drugs, 
in spite of its not being registered for that purpose, as required 
by the statute known as the Pharmacy Act. The court has 
decided— subject, of course, to an appeal to the House of 
