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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 
April, 1882. 
Mr. Wilkie said the board only asked for a nominal penalty. 
It would be understood that the defendant must shut his shop 
at once, and not re-open it until his name appears on the 
register of the Pharmacy Board, according to the Act. 
The chairman said there appeared to be some doubt in the 
matter as to whether the defendant was cognisant of his 
offence. The fine would therefore be mitigated to £2, with 
£1 Is. costs. 
The defendant said he considered it a very unjust decision. 
He would have to go to gaol, for he could not pay. 
The chairman said two or three times lately disparaging 
remarks had been made in that court concerning the decisions 
of the Bench. He had tolerated them hitherto, but he would 
do so no longer. If the defendant, or any one else, did not 
conduct themselves properly in this court, they would be 
committed for contempt. 
Defendant— And Bromfield on the bench too. What right 
has he there ? 
The chairman said another remark of that kind would get 
him quartered in gaol. 
The defendant having become silent, the chairman completed 
the order, recording that distress would follow in default of 
payment of the fine, and in default of distress, one month’s 
imprisonment. 
DEATH OF MR. CHAS. KERNOT, M.L.A. 
We regret to announce the death of Mr. Chas. Kernot, one of 
the Parliamentary representatives for Geelong, who died at 
his residence, in Aphrasia-street, Newtown, on the 26th 
March. His death was not unexpected — he had been ailing 
for more than twelve months. The deceased gentleman, who 
was sixty-two years of age, was born at Rochefort, Essex, 
England, where he carried on business as a chemist prior to 
leaving for Australia. Mr. Kernot came direct to Victoria 
about February, 1851, in the ship “ Duke of Wellington,” one 
of the vessels chartered by Dr. Lang to bring to these shores 
a desirable class of colonists. After stopping in Melbourne 
for a few weeks, he came to Geelong, which has been his home 
ever since. He first lived in Gheringhap-street, and then 
started in business as a chemist in one of the shops just above 
that occupied by Mr. Pardey, the chemist, in Moorabool-street. 
Being also a practical printer, he combined with his business 
that of a printer and stationer, in which occupations he 
succeeded in three years in accumulating considerable 
wealth, which enabled him to remove to premises at the 
top of Moorabool-street, and where he confined himself to 
chemistry. In 1859 his prosperity induced him to erect a 
comfortable residence in Aphrasia-street, Newtown, at which 
place he resided up to the time of his death. He was, 
in 1859 and up to February, 1865, in partnership with his 
brother, Mr. W. H. Kernot, as chemists and druggists ; 
but at the latter date he retired altogether from active 
business. From the time of his arrival in Geelong he took 
a deep interest in everything affecting the general public. 
He was one of the directors of the old Geelong and Mel- 
bourne Railway Company, in which capacity he proved him- 
self a very energetic member. To show that he was not nar- 
rovv-minded in his views, it may be stated that he was the first 
to join in the agitation for Sunday trains when the line was 
under the company’s management. Even in January, 1860, 
when it was proposed to resume the Sunday communication 
between Geelong and Melbourne, he spoke in support of the 
movement ; but, at his suggestion, the consideration of the 
subject was allowed to lapse, as the railway line was about to 
pass into the hands of the Government. He was the convener 
of the first meeting of the Geelong Gas Company, in which he 
retained a very large interest up to the time of his death. 
The deceased was also for many years a very active member 
of the directory of the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Manufac- 
turing Company. He proved himself a valuable member of 
the' Hospital Committee of Management. In municipal 
matters he was equally energetic, and on the 15th November, 
1859, he was elected one of the representatives for the Bar won 
Ward in the Geelong Town Council. He was raised, on the 
9th August, 1861, to the office of alderman for Thomson Ward, 
and on the 9th October, 1864, he became mayor-elect, and 
took his seat in the mayoraLchair on the 9th November of the 
same year. At the time of his death Mr. Kernot was a Par- 
liamentary representative for Geelong. He entered Parlia- 
ment about the 13th March, 1868, as a member for East 
Geelong, when the Darling grant question agitated the 
country. After remaining in Parliament as an unpaid member 
for three years he sought re-election ; but was defeated by the 
late Mr. J. M. Garratt. He was afterwards elected to fill the 
vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Richardson. In May, 
1877, he was re-elected ; but in February, 1880, he was 
defeated for Geelong by Mr. Chas. Andrews, whom he beat in 
the election which took place in July of the same year, and 
remained a member of Parliament up to the time of his death. 
REMARKS ON A NEW CASUARINA. 
By Baron Ferd. yon Mueller, M. & Ph.D., K.C.M.G., 
F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 
The order of Casuarineae is only a small one, restricted to one 
genus and comparatively few species. Bordering, as it does, 
alike on the Conifers and on the subordinal groups, which 
constitute the complex of Amentacem, it has great morpho- 
logic interest. Paleontologically forms of Casuarina are 
known from the tertiaries of Britain, pointing to the existence 
of this kind of tree in Europe prior to the glacier epoch. 
Utilitarian considerations lead us to value our Australian 
species for superior fuel, especially as their growth can be 
effected even in arid waterless wastes. Potash is yielded by 
them in fair percentage ; cattle like to browse on the foliage, 
and are occasionally sustained on it in times of severe drought, 
the acidulous taste of the branchlets being evidently pleasant 
to pastoral animals ; the organic acid, thus obvious, could by 
simple chemical means readily be isolated, and possibly be 
turned to special applications ; the remarkable structure of 
the wood and even the trachenchyma of the seedshell of the 
fruitlets, interests the anatomist ; while I have shown already 
at the International Exhibition of 1867, that the foliage of 
Casuarinse can easily be converted into pulp for paper-mills. 
As any addition therefore to our knowledge of the specific 
forms of this genus is of more than ordinary interest, the ac- 
count of a new species will be acceptable. It was obtained by 
Mr. F. M. Bailey, of Brisbane, and has been named by us 
Casuarina inophloia , F. v. M. and Bailey. 
Arborescent ; aged bark disintegrating into long narrow 
somewhat fibrous particles ; branchlets very thin, slightly 
streaked, not prominently angular, almost imperceptibly 
downy ; whorls of rudimentary leaves bearing 7-9 semi- 
lanceolar acute teeth ; fruit-amenta cylindrical-ovate, or some- 
times shortened to an almost globular form, constantly de- 
pressed at the summit ; axis densely beset with straight pale- 
brown hair ; bracts obliterated ; bracteolar valves of the 
fruitlets rather small, semi-ovate, nearly blunt, short-exserted, 
enlarged by a very thick dorsal rather angular appendage of 
vertical slight cleavage, and of nearly as much protrusion as 
that of the valves themselves j appendages and valves very 
slightly downy ; nutlets (when young) pale, the terminating 
membrane (then) about as long as the nucleus. 
In the southern portions of Queensland, near Roma, F. M. 
Bailey ; near Toowoomba, C. Hartmann. 
This species is nearest allied to the common southern C. 
distyla, especially to that variety which, on account of its 
slender branchlets and small bracteolar valves, was formerly 
distinguished as C. paludosa. Our new species is however of 
taller growth, the bark is less solid, the branchlets are neither 
prominently streaked nor conspicuously furrowed, the fruit 
axis is very hairy, the bract under each fruitlet is not dis- 
tinctly developed, the dorsal protuberance of the bracteolar 
valves is comparatively much thicker and by partial incision 
somewhat doubled. Furthermore, the fruitlets below their 
membraneous appendage are in age probably not almost 
black. The flowers of either sex (not yet seen) may also be 
different. From G. corniculata the species now described is 
already separated by wanting distinct bracts and by the 
dorsal appendage of the bracteoles not being long and sharply 
pointed. But there can be no doubt, that our new plant is 
identical with the one, which Dr. Leichardt passingly men- 
tions under the name of C. villosa, in the diary of his famous 
journey overland to Port Essington, p. 49 (1847), as occurring 
on Robinson’s Creek, at Expedition Range. Still, Mr. Bailey 
justly observes, that this appellation is misleading, the bark, 
though very fibrous, not being villous in the accepted scientific 
sense of that term. It is remarkable that this tree should 
have escaped notice since Leichardt’s time— a fact demonstrat- 
ing how much yet needs to be done for the further investiga- 
tion of the Australian flora, even in long-settled districts, for 
which researches pharmaceutical gentlemen more especially 
should render every local aid. 
