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colonies but Queensland, and the balance of the increase 
over the price in England is due to freight and duty and other 
expenses. 
The cases hold thirteen weekly issues, corresponding 
to half a volume. Orders will be tilled in rotation. 
The New South Wales Commission will receive 
The applications for space till March 31, the Vic- 
Adelaide torian Commission till March 1. The latter 
Exhibition. Commission will visit Geelong and Ballarat on 
Feb. 2, Castlemaine and Sandhurst the follow- 
ing week, and other districts later. 
A good start has been made during the 
The Centennial month. The Eoyal Commission has been 
International appointed under the Presidency of the 
Exhibition. Chief Justice, Mr. Higinbotham, with 
special provision for expenditure. Mr. 
G. T. A. Lavater, accountant for the Victorian Railway 
Department, has been appointed secretary at a salary of 
£1250 a year. The Commission consists of men of great 
influence and experience. A room at the Melbourne Town 
Hall has been placed at the disposal of the Commission 
as a city office, but the chief offices will be at the Exhibition 
'building. 
The Sydney Intercolonial or Imperial Exhibition 
Date, will be opened in January 1888, the Paris Inter- 
national Exposition on May 5, 1889, so the 
Melbourne International has been fixed for August 1888, 
closing on January 31st, 1889. 
At a meeting of the Commission on January 25, 
Scope it was resolved that the exhibition should be a 
AND Plans, live one, and that inventors and others should 
be invited to show the process of making as well 
as the finished articles. 
Also that spaces be not charged for, and that power be 
reserved to the Commissioners to reduce the space allotted tc 
any exhibitor. 
That motive power be granted to exhibitors free, but that 
power be reserved to the Commissioners to reduce amoun 
asked for, or a charge for a certain amount if they consider 
the same necessary. 
It is to be open at night, and close estimates of the 
•expense by Hon. W. M. K. Vale show that the expense will be 
nearer £100,000 than the £25,000 alloted by Government. 
Quite a little colony of Australians have been elected 
F.C.S. Fellows of the Chemical Society of London during 
the past month. Among them are Mr. C. R. 
Blackett, Mr. J. B. L. Mackay, Mr. Edward Lloyd Marks, all 
of Melbourne; Hr. Edwin Quayle, and Mr. H. A. Bruce 
Leipner, of Sydney. 
To the long list of sources of musk must 
Musk Scented be added a kind of gnat, order Hemiptera, 
Gnats. class Reduvid®, genus Amulius, Stol which 
is so common in the bush at times as 
to fill the air with a musky odour. The source of 
the odour has hitherto been an enigma, but has at last been 
traced by Mr. A. Aider, ofCaloundra, Queensland, and the 
insects classed by Mr. Tryon of the Brisbane Museum. 
A writer in Mature points out that positive 
The Botfly proof has been given showing that the annual 
AND loss from warbles on cattle, from the botfly, 
Ox Warbles, largely exceeds two to three million pounds 
sterling, in the United Kingdom alone. As 
these swellings are called “health lumps” or “thriving 
bumps” by many stock owners, chemists may make them- 
selves useful by pointing out that each warble has a large mig- 
got lui der it, feeding on the juices of the hide or flesh. Get 
stock owners to examine their beasts or the hides immediately 
after removal. They will be surprised at the number of 
warbles, and will readily estimate the injury they must cause. 
The Report of the Royal Agricultural Society on the subject, 
states that mercurial ointment or carbolised oil, applied by a 
careful man, are efficacious remedies. M‘DougaH’s prepara- 
tion is safe in all hands, destroys the maggots and can be used 
later on as a wash, to prevent the attacks of the flies. A 
pamphlet issued by J. C. Jack, Grange publishing -works, 
Edinburgh, gives full details of the history, life, prevention, 
and losses caused by this pest. 
In consequence of the great number of 
The Chemists new subscribers to our journals both at 
and home and in the colonies, we shall be 
Druggists’ Diary quite unable to supply the Diary for the 
1887. current year. Had the increase in our 
subscription list assumed ordinary pro- 
portions our cablegram would have ensured a further supply 
Our home office sent us a hundred and fifty copies in addi- 
tion to the number mentioned in the latest advices they 
had received, as to the number of our subscribers, but these 
have all been absorbed, and we are unable tp supply copies 
of the Diary to new subscribers. The Treatise on The Art 
of Pharmacy has, however, been reprinted. A supply of 
these will reach us by an early mail, and a copy will be pre- 
sented to all whose subscriptions commenced in January, 
who will also be entitled to “The Chemists and 
Druggists’ Diary, 1888.” 
NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN PLANTS. 
By Baron Von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. & Ph.D., F.R.S. 
{Continued.) 
Templetonia Battii. 
Glabrous; branchletsrigid, very spreading, cylindrical, spin- 
escent ; leaves none ; flowers solitary or two together, very 
small, nearly sessile ; bractlets much connate, very short, 
rounded-blunt ; lower lobe of the calyx lanceolar-semiovate 
the four other lobes deltoid and shorter, the two uppermost 
the smallest but distinct, all slightly ciliated ; upper petal 
about twice as long as the calyx, almost renate, somewhat ex- 
ceeding the others ; anthers roundish and ovate ; style thick, 
very short ; fruit almost elliptical, slightly pointed, not stipi- 
tate ; valves rather convex ; seeds ripening one or two, dark- 
greenish ; strophiole pale, fringed. 
Near Eucla ; D. Batt. 
This species differs from T. egena principally in its short 
pungent and divergent, also less furrowed branchlets, in 
not silicate and somewhat smaller flowers, in the upper 
petal being comparatively broader, in shorter less 
slender style, in rather smaller less oblique fruits 
and in seeds of much less size, the strophiole however 
being quite as large, with longer lobes. As regards carpologic 
characteristics our new species comes nearer to T. sulcata ; 
but the ovary is often six-ovulate, and the strophiole deeply 
cleft into narrow lobes. Irrespective of this the branchlets 
are less elongated and not broadly compressed, by which means 
the aspect of the plant becomes very different. 
T. egena was gathered during Mr. Lindsay’s last survey- 
expedition by Lieutenant Dittrich on the Alberga ; on the 
Upper Ashburton-river, by the Chevalier Ernest Giles ; on 
the Finke River, by Rev. H. Kempe ; on the Lachlan River, 
by F. V. Mueller. In habit it resembles Comesperma scoparium. 
T. aculeata was found on the Flinders-Ranges by Professor 
Tate ; between the Lachlan and Darling-rivers by Mr. G. Day. 
T. Muelleri was collected between the Loddon and Cam- 
paspe by Mr. Nancarrow ; at Kingdon-Ponds by Miss H. 
Carter; on the Macquarrie-River, by Mr. Betche ; on the 
Loddon, by Mr. D’Alton ; on the Logan-River, by the Rev. B. 
Scortechini. 
T. sulcata occurs on the Irwin River, (F. von Mueller.) 
T. retusa was brought from Yorke’s Peninsula by Dr. 
Schmid, from Venus Bay by Mr. T. Clode. It occurs with very 
pale flowers (J. E. Brown) and with fruits fully 3 inches long. 
Nematophyllum Hookeri cannot be included in the genus 
Templetonia on account of its compound often trifoliate 
leaves and the form of its calyx. It has been brought from. 
Eva-Downs by Lieut. Dittrich. 
WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
A Hospital is to be erected at Roebourne, at a cost of 
£2,088. 
Mr. G. Stone has been appointed dispenser at the Colonial 
Hospital, Perth. 
Dr. J. C. Geo. Jurs, late of Goondiwindi, Queensland, has 
removed to Perth. 
