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flames before mucb injury to the person is inflicted. If no 
help be at hand, the person enveloped in flames should roll on 
the floor, so as to smother the combustion, instead of rushing 
into the open air, making a wind by the motion that will fan 
even a smouldering fabric into flame, unless some non-com- 
bustible be used in its dressing. 
OXFORD FELLOWSHIPS. 
We observe with considerable satisfaction that two of the 
colleges in Oxford are offering Fellowships in pure science. 
Merton College offers a Fellowship in physics, while Lincoln 
College offers one in biology. In addition to these there is 
at present a vacant Fellowship in medicine at Pembroke 
College. 
The more widely such privileges are extended, the better for 
the progress and dignity of Oxford University, as well as its 
graduates. 
ROYAL GARDENS AT KEW. 
It is officially announced that Mr. Thistleton Dyer, C.M.G., 
F.E.S., has been made director of the Kew Gardens. Lord 
Iddesleigh has also filled the vacancy of assistant-director 
created by the promotion of Mr. Dyer, by the selection of Mr. 
D. Morris, F.G.S., who has for some time been director of the 
public gardens in Jamaica. Mr. Morris has been an energetic 
promoter of the work of acclimatization of plants, and will, 
we have no doubt, efficiently transact the duties devolving 
upon him in his new and responsible position. 
TRANSLATION OF BISHOP MOORHOUSE. 
Though not, perhaps, of special interest to pharmacists, we 
cannot refrain from animadverting to the loss the colony has 
sustained by the recent departure of Dr. Moorhouse, Lord- 
Bishop of Melbourne, who has been translated to the See of 
Manchester ; but his name has been on everyone’s lips for a 
few weeks past, and the outbursts of sympathy and regret 
from every quarter of Australia — from churchmen and Pres- 
byterians ; from high and low, and rich and poor alike, tes- 
tify to the universal esteem in which that cultured and broad- 
viewed prelate has been held. 
Not only in his clerical capacity has he endeared himself to 
the people of Victoria, but in the keen interest he has ever 
taken in other matters of importance to the colony. For in- 
stance, he was a strong advocate of the policy of irrigation to 
fertilise the dry districts of Victoria. He was wont to say in 
his sermons that instead of trusting to prayers alone for plen- 
itude of rain, the inhabitants should “use the means, and 
God would give the blessing ; ” and that the Government 
should establish a complete system of irrigating the arid 
plains. Thus he upheld the grand doctrine — “Heaven helps 
those who help themselves.” 
Dr. Moorhouse will be much missed in the University 
Council, of which he was Lord Chancellor. In the language 
of Shakespeare, 
“ He was a scliolar, and a ripe good one, 
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading ; ” 
and it is such men that are needed to maintain the dignity of 
our Universities. As a preacher and public speaker he is, to 
use the words of Wordsworth, “ Surpassed by few in power of 
mind and eloquent discourse.” 
His farewell addresses at the Town Hall to . crowded gather- 
ings thrilled the hearts of all who heard him. The testimonial 
raised to him amounted to £1,250, and the fund is still open. 
Such enthusiastic and generous response to the appeal made 
for subscriptions afforded ample testimony of the suitableness 
of Longfellow’s lines to the opinions of Victorians in refer- 
ence to Bishop Moorhouse — 
“ We all love liim from the bottom of our hearts.” 
But Dr. Moorhouse fully reciprocates these sentiments, for 
in one of his latest speeches he said that “ he should ever 
remember the happy days spent in the colony of Victoria, 
which, he believed, had a bright future before it.” It is a pity 
that he cannot now be present to open our new cathedral, 
which he thought would be the “grandest fane in the Southern 
Hemisphere.” Yet it is satisfactory to know that a cordial 
welcome awaits him on the other side of the globe. 
THE INTERCOLONIAL PHARMACEUTICAL 
CONFERENCE. 
The question of an Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference 
has again been raised. Last June the proposals for such a 
conference emanated from the Pharmaceutical Society of New 
South Wales, who made strenuous efforts to establish such a 
conference, deeming it calculated to promote reciprocity of 
friendly feeling, as well as interchange of opinions in reference 
to subjects of pharmaceutical interest. 
In our last number we published a communication from 
one of our correspondents, and a circular issued to various 
pharmaceutical bodies (anent this conference), by Mr. Pinhey. 
These letters plainly set forth particulars of the courteous 
overtures made by that Society to the societies of the 
neighbouring colonies, together with the gist of the replies 
made to the invitations extended. These replies clearly 
showed a general indifference in respect to the proposed 
conference. 
Now, it seems strange that a few months afterwards, the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria, or, as it is now termed 
(with what justification some of our readers desire to know), 
the “Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia,” should take in 
hand to renew the scheme. 
In the annual report of the last-named Society, it is stated 
that the “ council had been anxiously looking foncard for some 
years to such a meeting, and at once expressed its entire 
ai^proval of the objects, forwarding the subjects to be sub- 
mitted to the conference from Victoria.” 
The Victorian Society’s council go on to say that as “no 
information could be obtained on the subjects to be dealt with, 
they regretted to state the matter lapsed.” 
Now, this appears to be a rather unreasonable excuse, 
seeing that in the circular issued to the various societies of 
Australasia by Mr. Pinhey, each Society addressed, is distinctly 
invited to state what subjects they would like discussed. Vic- 
toria did not comply with this condition, while other colonies 
invited to send delegates, either declined to be represented or 
expressed unwillingness to comply with the invitation. 
In the face of all this, the council of the Victorian Society 
{vide last official report) call attention to a proposed Interco- 
