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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST OF AUSTKALASIA. 
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^roxeeblngs flf' Societies. 
^‘Report me and my cause aright.*' Hamlet. 
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Jntrotiiict0r3J. 
OUBSELVES. 
Mr. Froupe in his fine book on “ Oceana”J[says of Aus- 
tralia It is a natural and healthy branch from the parent 
oak, left to grow as nature prompts it, and bearing its leaves 
and acorns at its own impulse. No bands or ligaments impede 
the action of the vital force. The parent tree does not say to 
it, you shall grow in this shape, and not in that, hut leaves it 
to choose its own. Thus it spreads and enlarges its girth, 
and roots itself each year more firmly in the stem from which 
it has sprung.” 
If we may venture to use the same simile to literature 
instead of countries, we heartily adopt the above words in a 
prophetic sense with regard to the “ organ” we launched forth 
three months ago to represent the drug trade in the seven 
Australasian colonies. 
PHARMACY BOARD OK VICTORIA. 
The following are the candidates who passed aVt^e quarterly 
examinations of the Pharmacy Board of Victoria 
Preliminary Examination, 1st March. — C. M. Harridge, East 
Melbourne ; Walter R. Anderson, Windsor ; F. G. Corinaldi, 
Prahran ; Sydney Ewing, Fitzroy; and J. J. Bowen, Sand^ 
hurst. Eight candidates presented themselves for this e%r 
amination. 
Elementary and Practical Chemistry, 2nd and 3rd March.-^ 
F. H. M’Knight, West Melbourne; Alfred GamsoiL Ararat; 
W. Thursfield, Ballarat ; J. J. Bill, Brunswick ; Janies 
Breton, Prahran ; F. Cathcart, Ballarat ; and E. L. Fisher, 
Melbourne. 
Materia Medica and Botany, 2nd and 3rd March. — Claud 
N, Hall, Fitzroy; John Gafi’ney, Ballarat; C. A. Graves, 
Richmond; Henry De Beare, Beaufort ; and Hector E. Hall, 
Fitzroy. AH the candidates who presented themselves for 
this examination passed. 
Modified Examination, ^2nd March. — Arthur M, Darken, 
Melbourne. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA. 
(Special Report.) 
The annual meeting of the above society was held on the 
10th March at the College of Pharmacy, Swanston-street, 
Melbourne, at 8 p.m. Mr. Bowen, President, in the chair. 
Business. 
1. To elect four members of council and two auditors. 
2. To receive the annual report and balance sheet. 
3. The presentation of the Society’s gold medal, and the 
President’s prizes to Mr. Paul Ward Farmer. 
4. To transact any other business that might be brought 
forward. 
The election for four members of council resulted in the 
return of Messrs. Tompsitt, Bowen, Francis and Nelson, the 
polling being as follows : — Tompsitt 157, Bowen 111, Francis 
114, Nelson 95, Dalton 92, Jones 75. The retiring auditors, 
Messrs. Atkin and Hodgkiss were re-elected. The auditors 
were elected for the ensuing year. 
The annual report and balance sheet was approved and 
adopted upon the motion of Mr. Strutt, seconded by Mr. Potts, 
a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Queensland, who 
had recently arrived from that colony, and who stated in the 
course of his remarks that pharmacists in Queensland were 
greatly pleased with the action of several members of the 
Pharmacy Board of Victoria for their exertions in advancing 
the cause of Pharmacy in Australasia. That the Pharmaceutical 
Society of Australasia was much looked up to in Queensland, 
mentioning particularly that the services of Messrs. Blackett, 
Bowen and Bosisto, in raising the Pharmaceutical Society to 
its present high status, were well known and appreciated in 
Queensland. 
The President, in his reply, stated that he was gratified to 
hear that the Queensland Society had no petty jealousy of the 
Australasian Society, as he had been under the impression 
that the Queensland Society had refused to recognise the 
qualifications of a Victorian Pharmaceutical chemist. 
Mr, Botts explained that it was the Medical Board of Queens- 
land, before the advent of the Queensland Pharmaceutical 
Society who had been guilty of that error in judgment. 
Mr. Blackett then read a paper on The Preparation of 
Ipecacuanha Wine, by the new Pharmacopoeial process, men- 
tioning that though the characteristic odour of the old Vin. 
Ipecac, was not at first apparent in the new product, yet it 
developed on keeping, and he summed up in favor of the 
greater activity of the new preparation, but stating that the 
Vin. Album of the U. S. P. was preferable to sherry for its 
manufacture as it contained little or no tannin. 
He stated that sherry was recognised by the new Phar- 
macopceia as the best wine for Vinum Ipecac., whereas he 
thought the white wine should have been officially recognised 
as the best medium, as from the excess of acid which some 
Colonial wines contained, they retained the emetine which was 
the active principle of Ipecac wine. This raised a slight dis- 
cussion upon the advisability of using Colonial wine, in con- 
sequence of the amount of sediment found in them ; but Mr. 
Blackett disposed of this objection by stating that the sediment 
