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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST OF AUSTEALASIA. 
Doivours to Ijbiuiiuidsis. 
“ We have not wings, we cannot soar , 
But we have feet to scale and climb * 
By sloiv degrees." — Loxgfello'U’. 
We are glad to learn Mr. John Rutherford Hill has been 
ohered the post of secretary to the Pharmaceutical Society for 
Scotland, in room of Mr. Peter McEwan, who has resigned in 
consequence of his appointment to the editorial staff of the 
Chemist caul Druggist, in London. Mr. Hill was on the short 
list for the above position in the autumn of 1881, at which 
time Mr. McEwan was the successful candidate. The pro- 
verb “ Everything comes to him that waits” has proved true 
in this instance, at any rate. 
We learn that a testimonial is being got up in Scotland for 
Mr. MacEwan expressive of the appreciation in which that 
gentleman’s services have been held during the four years he has 
occupied the office of secretary to the Pharmaceutical Society 
in Scotland. 
Mr. Josei^h Bosisto, the well known Melbourne pharmacist, 
and who lias been member of the Legislative Assembly of 
Victoria for thirty years, has been returned to Parliament at 
the /ecent .elections to represent his old constituency — Rich- 
mond. Mr. Bosisto stood at the head of the poll. 
gistinttions to iJbysrir'uuvs unb ^dentists. 
“ Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, 
2’o scorn delights and live laborious days ." — Milton. 
Royal favours have been richly bestowed lately upon English 
members of the medical xirofessions. The new recipients of 
the honour of knighthood are Dr. William Roberts, of Owen’s 
College; Dr. Crighton Browne ; Dr. James Sawyer, the well- 
known physician in Birmingham ; and Mr. Dalby, aural sur- 
geon to St. George’s Hospital. We heartily congratulate these 
men on the well-deserved distinctions gained from the hands 
of our gracious Sovereign. 
Royal Society’s Medal. — We observe with pleasure that 
Dr. Ray Lankester, Professor of Comparative Anatomy in 
University College, London, has been presented with the 
Royal medal of the Royal Society for his valuable contribu- 
butions to biological investigation. 
Victorian University, Manchester. — The following ap- 
pointments have recently been made : — To the Brackenbury 
Professorship of Physiology, William Stirling, M.D., D.Sc., 
Regius Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the Univer- 
sity of Aberdeen ; to the Lectureship in Medical Jurisprudence, 
John Dixon Mann, M.D., M.R.C.P. 
The Prize of One Hundred Guineas offered by the Pre- 
sident and Council of the British Medical Temperance Asso- 
ciation for the best essay by a medical student on “The 
Physical and Moral Advantages of Total Abstinence from 
Intoxicating Liquors,” was presented to the successful com- 
petitor, Mr. H. A. W. Coryn, on Friday, January 22nd, by the 
President, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., at the rooms of the 
Medical Society of London. 
Mons. Paul Bert, the French physiologist, has been ap- 
pointed by the French Government to be Resident in Annam 
and Tonquiii. He will not leave Paris so soon as expected, 
owing to the delay caused by the organisation of the scientific 
part of his mission. We believe that M. Bert’s wife’s father 
was a chemist and druggist in the little town of Keith, Banff- 
shire Scotland. 
We learn that his Majesty the King of Italy has graciously 
conferred the Cross of the Crown of Italy upon Mr. John 
Montague Bateman, Pharmacien on the establishment- of the 
ex-Khedive, Ismail Pacha, at Naples. 
The honour of knighthood was conferred upon Prof. Robert 
Stawell Ball, L.L.D., Astronomer-Royal for Ireland, at the 
levee of the Lord-Lieutenant, on January 25. 
Professor A. Ogston has received a military medal for his 
work in the Soudan campaign. The medal bears the Soudan 
clasp. 
Dr. Hughlings Jackson has been elected a corresiionding 
member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Belgium. 
We are glad to state Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, F.R.S., who 
has been Professor of Chemistry in Victoria University for 29 
years, was at the last general elections in England returned as 
the Liberal member for the city of Manchester. Like Sir Lyon 
Playfair, who was formerly Professor of Chemistry in Edin- 
burgh University, he will be a fitting representative of chemical 
science in the British Parliament. He was knighted not long ago 
for the services he rendered as member of the recent Govern- 
ment Commission on Technical Education in England. 
Mr. Oakley Coles, the well known dentist and lecturer on 
subjects of dentistry at the National Dental Hospital, Portland- 
street, London, has retired from that profession to which he 
has given a powerful impetus in the way of elevating its tone. 
An influential committee has been formed, with Sir Edwin 
Saunders as chairman, to arrange for the x>i’esentation of a 
testimonial to Mr. Coles in recognition of the esteem in which 
he has been held by friends and colleagues alike. 
Dr.,. Bradley, of Sheffield, who has in the opinion of the 
medical faculty suffered wrong imprisonment for alleged mis- 
conduct in some consultation case, and is consequently a 
martyr, ‘recently received a handsome presentation, as a kind 
of solatium for his sufferings, from his sjunpathetic brethren. 
The sum presented was four hundred guineas, and represented 
no less than -806 subscribers. 
It was resolved at a meeting of the Senate of the University 
of Dublin to confer the degree of Medicince Doctor (Honoris 
Caus^) upon Daniel J. Cunningham, Professor of Anatomy in 
that university. 
We understand that Professor Filehne, of Erlangen, has been 
nominated Professor of Pharmacology at Breslau, while the 
clinical chair at the University of Erlangen has been appor- 
tioned between Professors Striimpell and Penzoldt. 
Count Magavli, Doctor of Medicine and oculist to the 
Imperial Court, has been appointed a member of the Medical 
Council of the Russian Empire. Dr. A. J. Danielevski, for- 
merly of Kazan, has been appointed Professor of Physiological 
Chemistry in the University of Kharkoff. 
The first class of the Order of St. Ann has been given to 
Dr. D. E. von Wahl, Professor of Surgery in Dorpat, also the 
third class of the Order of St. Vladimir has been conferred on 
Prof. Lazarevich, the well-known obstetrician of Kharkoff. 
Dr. Don Francisco Vinals has been unanimously elected by 
the Senate of the Faculty of Medicine of Madrid as Clinical 
Professor in the University of that capital. 
The Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, third class, has been 
conferred on Dr. Bergmann, Professor of Surgery in Berlin. 
By a recent mail the news has come to hand, that Dr. F. 0* 
Hodson, of Walgett, New South Wales, has had the honour 
conferred on him of being elected a Member of the Committee 
of the Imperial Federation League, London, together with 
such prominent men as the Right Honorable Sir Lyon Play- 
fair, the Marquis of Normanby, Prof. Humphrey, the Duke of 
Manchester, and the Earl of Wemyss. 
statue to CLAUDE BERNARD. 
A statue, erected to the memory of Claude Bernard, the 
eminent physiologist, was unveiled in February last, in the 
presence of the Minister of Public Instruction, delegates from 
the Institute and University of France, amongst whom were 
also iiresent MM, Paul Bert, Pasteur, Renan, and other scien- 
tific and literary men. The statue is of bronze, representing 
Claude Bernard in a pensive mood, as he was often seen in his 
laboratory, while he was meditating over a new problem from 
which he had not yet formed any positive deductions. On one 
side of the pedestal is inscribed his name, with the statement 
that the monument was erected by his colleagues, his friends, 
and his disciples. Over the different emblems on the other 
parts of the pedestal are to be seen the names of the principal 
discoveries which will for ever be associated with the name of 
Claude Bernard ; glycogeny, diabetes, vaso-motor nerves, 
digestive liquids, experimental medicine, general physiology, 
unity of life, determinism, &c. Several S2:>eeches were made 
at the ceremony, including one from M. Paul Bert, one of 
Bernard’s pupils, who paid a just tribute to the memory of 
his former master and friend. The statue is placed at the 
head of the staircase leading to the College of France. 
