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March, 1882. 7 THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 81 
INDEX TO LITERARY CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Leading Article— Pharmaceutical Education 
and Pharmaceutical Examination 81 
The Month 82 
Meetings— The Annual Meeting of the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria 83 
Sydney 84 
New Zealand— Pharmacy in New Zealand 84 
PAGE 
Notes on a hitherto undefined Species of 
Cycas 84 
Notes of the Year 1881 85 
Analysis of a Sample of Water 86 
Pharmacy Board Examinations 86 
Examination for the Certificate of the 
School of Pharmacy 86 
PAGE 
The Pharmacy Board of Victoria 86 
The Sale of Poisons in Open Surgeries . . 87 
Correspondence 87 
Reminiscences of a Pharmacist 87 
Notes and Abstracts 88 
Some Remarks upon Modern Pharmaceuti- 
cal Study 88 
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BIRTHS. 
M'Burney.— On the 7th March, at 2 Warwick-terrace, Drummond-street* 
Carlton, the wife of H. G. M‘Burney of a son. 
Pulling. — O n the 27th February, at Waterton, Albert-street, Windsor, the 
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PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION AND PHARMA- 
CEUTICAL EXAMINATION. 
Recently Professor Attfield read an excellent paper on 
“ The Relation to each other of Education and Examina- 
tion, Especially with Regard to Pharmacy,” before the 
Manchester Chemists’ and Druggists’ Association. It is 
unnecessary to say that this paper is characterised by its 
author’s eminently clear and practical sense. In England 
it would seem that the leaders of pharmacy are fully alive 
to the urgent necessity of an amendment of the Pharmacy 
Act, but in the present state of affairs in the Imperial 
Parliament it is probable that some time will be required 
to get the attention of the Government. There are 
several of the proposed amendments of the English 
Pharmacy Act which, fortunately for us, we have antici- 
pated. In England, for instance, there is a generally 
expressed opinion that the preliminary examination ought 
to be passed before apprenticeship — a most important and 
desirable arrangement, and one which we may congratu- 
late ourselves upon having settled. In the mother-country 
the set of opinion is also in the direction of so altering 
the law that pharmaceutical students should be compelled 
to attend a definite course of lectures in recognised schools 
of pharmacy before presenting themselves for examina- 
tion. The Pharmacy Act of 1868 prescribed no limitations 
as to where the candidates should acquire the knowledge 
necessary to pass. Under our own Act the candidate for the 
higher examination must produce certificates of having 
attended lectures in materia medica , medical botany, and 
chemistry, and passed examinations either at the 
Melbourne University or some school or college of 
pharmacy recognised by the Board of Pharmacy. So in 
this respect — i.e., requiring from candidates a certificate 
of having completed a curriculum at some recognised 
school of pharmacy — we are in advance of our brethren at 
home. However, we must seriously consider whether our 
educational arrangements are up to the proper standard. 
The provisions of the law are sufficient ; but the responsi- 
bility of seeing that any school or college of pharmacy 
now or to be recognised by the Board of Pharmacy 
is under able and efficient teaching, rests upon the 
Pharmaceutical Society, as representing the interests 
of pharmacy and the training in sound knowledge 
of the youths who are destined to follow us in the 
practice of our responsible calling. If our readers 
have read the interesting series of papers on modern 
pharmaceutical study by Mr. Moller, which we have 
reprinted recently in our columns, or have fol- 
lowed the debate on pharmaceutical education at the 
congress which lately met in London, they will have 
noticed that in all the European states evidence is 
required that the candidate has gone through a defined 
educational course ; and this curriculum is so complete 
that the continental pharmacist is now a much more 
accomplished scientific man than his English confrere . 
As M. Petit said at the Intenational Pharmaceutical Con- 
