Jan. 1, 1887. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
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directly at these societies, and the legislature has seen fit to 
impose these extra conditions. 
In reply to observations of the court Dr. Madden said that 
•Goold was not a registered chemist carrying on business, but 
the Society itself was carrying on the business. 
Mr. Justice Kerferd : But was not the medicine dispensed 
by a registered chemist at a certain place ? Who gets the 
profits ? 
Dr. Madden : The company. 
Mr. Hodges (for the defendants) : You must not say that 
It is not shown anywhere in the case that the profits go to the 
Society. 
Dr. Madden: As that point is raised it is shown that the 
dispensing was done at a department of the Society’s business; 
it is true Goold’s name appears, but it is nevertheless their 
business. 
Mr. Justice Kerferd : At hotels I have had cards given 
me, “Mr. So and So attends twice a month to extract teeth.” 
Does that mean that the extraction is the landlord’s work? 
Dr. Madden : No, certainly not, unless the dentist is 
served up with the chops. 
Mr. Justice Williams : Is there any reasonable ground for 
doubting that the Society gets the profits ? 
Mr. Hodges : I don’t know, I only know what was said in 
the case. 
Dr. Madden : Nothing of the kind was said at the trial. 
The only objection then to the action was that the public was 
sufficiently protected. 
Mr. Justice Holyrod: It might make a good deal of differ- 
ence if a company were to let or hand over a department of 
its business to a qualified chemist. 
Mr. Justice Williams : I know it is done. In some English 
hotels a barber is allowed the use of one or two rooms, some- 
times rent free, so that the customers of the hotel may find the 
additional attraction and convenience of having everything 
on the premises. In the same way the Society might allow a 
registered person to carry on the business of a pharmaceutical 
chemist there. 
Mr. Hodges : I do not know if there is any ground for such 
a surmise. The Society would certainly prefer the question 
to be settled on the facts as they actually are, not as they 
appear on the statement of the case. 
Dr. Madden : Such an arrangement might be carried out, 
provided the tradesman were carrying on his own business; but 
it would have to be j^roved that such really was the case. 
But here the label on the bottle shows that the medicine was 
dispensed at the Equitable Society’s Pharmacy, not at Goold’s. 
Mr. Justice Williams : I am inclined to think that is 
sufficient. 
This closed the argument for the appellant. 
Mr. Hodges said : The plaintiffs here have to prove a case 
on which the justices were bound to convict, not one on which 
they might convict. The justices found that the evidence 
before them did not satisfy them. The mere fact that the 
Society have on their advertisements an announcement that 
they have a place where prescriptions can be made up, does 
not prove that they were carrying on the business of a chemist. 
The law meant and intended that the person carrying on the 
business should be free from interference and that he was inde- 
pendent of the control of anyone else. The plaintiffs ought 
to have shown that the Society exercised some control and that 
is not shown. They have not shown that the defendants have 
been guilty of any breach of the law. All that is proved is 
that there is some portion of their premises where they allow 
drugs to be dispensed 
Mr. Justice Williams : Is it not rather more than that? 
That there is a portion of their premises where they dispense 
drugs through the instrumentality of Goold. The only evi- 
dence we have points to that conclusion. 
Mr. Hodges : Goold is registered as carrying on business at 
the place. 
Mr. Justice Williams : Registered as residing at No. 89 
Collins -street east, at the defendant’s place of business. 
Mr. Hodges : But that means only that No. 89 is the 
defendant’s place of business ; there might be many other 
businesses there as is the case in many other buildings. 
Dr. Madden in reply said there is one word in the statement 
of the case which seems to settle the point. “He had received 
a letter from the defendant calling attention to the defen- 
dant’s dispenser being registered, &c.” There was no pretence 
that he was anything but their dispenser. 
Mr. Justice Williams: It appears to us all that this 
pharmaceutical business was carried on by the defendants 
through the instrumentality of Goold, and that being so the 
justices should have convicted. The appeal is allowed, and 
the case must be remitted to the justices with the opinion of 
the court that their determination was erroneous. 
NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 
By Baron Von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D,, F.R.S. 
Candollea Teppeeiana. 
Perennial, divided from the base into few or many short 
glabrous simple branches ; leaves in a dense tuft at the root, 
and also one on the summit of the branches, short, narrow 
linear fine-pointed, two-furrowed beneath, imperfectly ser- 
rulate-ciliated, the lowest leaves of th e terminal tufts descend- 
ing with a blunt pale free and tumid base ; peduncles thinly 
filiform, glandular-hairy ; racemes, simple, with few or 
several flowers ; bracts narrow, pointed, nearly as long as the 
flowering pedicel, longer than the bracteoles ; calyces about as 
long as the corolla, exceeding in length the pedicel and as 
well as the latter subtle glandular-hairy ; the lower lobes 
narrow semi-lanceolar, disconnected, the two upper lobes con- 
nate to near the summit and rather blunt ; corolla red, out- 
side towards the base glandular-hairy ; its lobes almost ovate ; 
appendage at the fauces narrowly clavate-lobed ; iabellum 
pointed ; fruit almost ellipsoid, at the base attenuated. 
On Mount Taylor in Kangaroo-Island ; Otto Tepper. Root 
fascicular-fibrous ; leaves one-third to two-third inch long, 
very narrow, almost fiat, the median line beneath prominen, 
and comparatively broad. Peduncle as long as the inflorescenct 
or longer, generally one only from each upper tuft of leaves. 
Flowering calyx about quarter inch long. Lobes of the calyx 
about half as long as the tube. Corolla from rosy-red drying 
blueish, its lobes entire. Gynostemium not much extending 
beyond the corolla. Fruit about one-third inch long. 
Candollea or Stylidium Tepperi approaches in its affinity 
nearest to C. ,spinulosa, which is however less proliferous, 
has usually longer leaves, not all collected into tufts, has the 
pedicels, particularly the lower ones, much more elongated, the 
corolla-lobes mostly longer and not of an equally red tinge, 
and the upper calyx-lobes not highly connate. 
The following are unrecorded localities and characteristics 
of Candollea : — C. crossocephala ; Blackwood-lliver, Mrs. 
McHard. C. serrulata ; Trinity Bay, Fitzalan. C. linearis ; 
Fraser’s Island, W. Hill. C. elongata ; Port Gregory, F. V. 
M. Septum very narrow. Seeds ovate, on very short funicles, 
few in each cell maturing ; testa brown, somewhat rough ; em- 
bryo globular, many times shorter than the albumen, next to 
the hilum. C. juncea ; Gordon-River, where it produces a 
pale lilac corolla with cuneate-ovatefringy-incised lobes, their 
yellow base being red-dotted, Iabellum pointed. C. calcarata ; 
Port Darwin, a very tall variety ; Holtze; Yorke's Peninsula, 
Tepper ; Smythe’s Creek, Collyer. C. perpusilla ; Geelong, 
J. Br. Wilson ; Port Phillip, C. French. C. debilis ; Man- 
ning’s River, Betche. C. diuroides ; Serpentine-River, F. V. 
M. C. despecta ; Murray-and Edwards-River, F. V. M. C. 
alsinoides ; Dampier’s Archii^elagus, Gazelle-Expedition, 
Yule-River, Hon. J. Forrest. C.pulchella ; Serpentine-River, 
F. V. M. C. canaliculata ; Serpentine River, corolla yellow, 
F. V. M. C. eglandulosa ; Namoi River, Betche. 
Sandy : “I want a cake o’ soap, Mr. M’Intosh.” Chemist * 
“I canna let ye ha a cake o’ soap on the Sawbath Day* 
Sandy.” Sandy : “ But ye sel’d thatlassie peppermint drops.” 
Chemist: “ Ay, ye can sook peppermints in the kirk, but ye 
canna wash yersel’ there.” 
Rule-of-Theee Physicking. — A man living in the country, 
far from any physician, was taken suddenly ill. His family 
in great alarm, not knowing what else to do, sent for a neigh- 
bour who had a reputation for doctoring cows. “ Can’t you 
give father something to help him?” asked one of the sons. 
“ Waal, I don’t know nothin’ about doctorin’ people.” “ You 
know more than we do, for you can doctor cows. What do 
you give them when they’re sick?” “Waal, I allers gives 
cows salts — Epsom salts. You might try that on him.” 
“ How much shall I give him ?” “ Waal, I give cows just a 
pound. I suppose a man is a quarter as big as a cow — give 
him a quarter of a pound !” 
