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March, 1880. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
83 
TO LITERARY CONTENTS. 
INDEX 
PAGE 
Leader- 
Pharmacy in New Zealand 83 
The Month 83 
Meetings — 
The Pharmacy Board 84 
The Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria 84 
Scientific Summary 85 
Sandhurst 85 
PAGE 
Ballarat 86 
Notes and Abstracts 86 
Correspondence 87 
The “ Drugging of Animals Act” 87 
A Paying Hospital 87 
Rust in Wheat 88 
S ANITAS, A LATE ANTISEPTIC 88 
Miscellaneous Formula 88 
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Simple Method of Preparing a Solution 
of the Double Iodide of Bismuth and 
POTTASIUM FOR USE AS AN ALKALOIDAL 
Reagent 88 
Making Fern Pictures S9 
Remedies for Chilblains 89 
Water and Fire Proof Paper 89 
Cork, Corks, and Corkscrews 89 
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NOTICE. 
In accordance with the resolution passed at the Annual 
Meeting, a Special Meeting of the Members of the Phar- 
maceutical Society will be held at the Mutual Provident 
Buildings, Collins-street, on Friday, the 7th May, at eight 
o’clock p.m., to receive the Report of the Council in 
reference to the proposed Alteration in the Constitution 
and Laws of the Society. 
HARRY SHILLINGLAW, 
Hon. Sec. 
14th April, 1880. 
BIRTH. 
Blackett.— O n the 25th March, at 126 Gertrude-street, Fitzroy, the wife of 
C. R. Blackett of a son. 
DEATH. 
Perkins.— On the 16th March, at his residence. Piper-street, Kyneton, 
Ebenezer Perkins, aged forty-nine years. 
PHARMACY IN NEW ZEALAND. 
A movement to form a Pharmaceutical Society of New 
Zealand, inaugurated at the commencement of last year, 
has, we are glad to learn, progressed very favourably, so 
that by the end of October the number of members who 
had joined, exclusive of associates and apprentices, was 
upwards of one hundred. The head-quarters of the new 
society have been fixed at Wellington, with local com- 
mittees in Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and its 
first president is Mr. Charles D. Barraud. 
Notwithstanding the success that has been attained, a 
large number of chemists and druggists in business, 
amounting to one-third, have not yet joined the society, 
and in the prospect of an attempt being made to obtain 
a Pharmacy Act for the colony a vigorous effort is being 
made to induce these to join the common cause. 
In anticipation of the meeting of the colonial Parlia- 
ment a bill has been drafted, based on the Victoria Phar- 
macy Act, which is said to work well, and which in its 
turn was founded on the Pharmacy Acts of Great Britain. 
The main provisions would render examinations compulsory 
in New Zealand and u introduce means for systematic 
technical education. ” There are strong hopes of passing 
this bill, since the Wellington committee has been as- 
sured that it will command the cordial support of the 
Legislature as a measure calculated to afford important 
protection to the community and as being in accord with 
the views of a commission at present sitting on high- 
class education . — Pharmaceutical Journal. 
^hc Jffimih. 
The Registrar-General has recently registered a number of 
trade marks as follows : — A representation of a crucible, with 
the word “ Salamander” on it, on behalf of the Patent 
Plumbago Crucible Company, of Battersea, in England. The 
Holman Liver Pad Company, of New York, are registered as 
the proprietors of two marks in respect of surgical pads — 
viz., the word “ Holman,” and the representation of the bust 
of a man wearing a pad upon the stomach, as shown in the 
large bills posted about the city ; and the representation of a 
man seated in a chair with his feet in a bath, in respect of 
preparations to be put in baths for curative or medicinal 
purposes. 
The tenders of Messrs. Rocke, Tompsitt and Co., for the 
supply of medicines, instruments, &c., and photo-lithographic 
chemicals, to the Government of Victoria for the year 1880-81 , 
has been accepted by the Tender Board. 
At a recent meeting of the committee of the Melbourne 
Hospital the chairman stated that the resolution recently 
passed by the committee prohibiting the patients using ale and 
porter bottles for carrying their medicine had caused a very 
serious inconvenience to some of the patients, who had been 
compelled to leave the institution without their medicine in 
consequence of not having proper bottles. He considered that 
the previous resolution should be rescinded. Mr. Garton also 
was of the opinion that the patients should not be put to such 
inconvenience, as many of them could not obtain proper 
bottles, and gave notice that he would move at the next 
meeting of the committee that the previous resolution be 
rescinded. 
The following name has been added to the list of legally 
qualified medical practitioners, registered under the provisions 
of the Medical Practitioners Statute, 1865 Henry Pelham 
Gordon, Penshurst, M.R.C.S. Eng., 1866. Additional qualifica- 
tion registered — J . G. Beaney, M.D. Univ. Melb., 1879., a.e.g. 
The produce of the Murray fisheries has greatly fallen off, 
owin ^ to the lowness of the rivers. Now most of the fish is 
caug/i/ in the Moira Lakes. Leeches are caught in abundance 
in tie la kes, and a local tradesman has taken a contract to 
