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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
Feb. 1, 1886. 
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Prosecution of an Unregistered Chemist. — At the Colling- 
wood Police Court this morning, Jeremiah John Wilson, of 
113 Victoria Parade, Collingwood, was charged at the instance 
of Mr. H. W. Shiilinglaw, Eegistrar of the Pharmacy Board 
of Victoria, with two offences under the Act. — 1st, for carry- 
ing on business as a chemist and druggist, not being a regis- 
tered pharmaceutical chemist ; and 2nd, with pretending to be 
a pharmacist not being registered. Mr. C. J. Barrow (Emer- 
son and Barrow) appeared for the prosecution. The defendant 
appeared and admitted the offence, and said he had sent in 
applications for registration by the Board four times, but 
could get no information from Mr. Shiilinglaw. Since being 
cautioned by the latter he had closed his shop. Mr. Shilling- 
law said all the defendant’s applications were informal, and 
the certificates not sufficient. He doubted if the defendant 
w'ould ever be registered on the qualifications he said he pos- 
sessed. ^ The cheque forwarded for his registration fee had 
been dishonoured. The defeadant claimed that he was a 
B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, and a fully qualified chemist. 
The chairman of the Bench (Mr. Walker) told the defendant 
there had evidently been a mistake and he would not be fined 
heavily under the circumstances, but he had no excuse for 
carrying on business until he was registered. Defendant was 
then fined 40s., and 26s. costs on the first charge, and Mr. 
Barrow withdrew the second charge on the defendant promis- 
ing to discontinue his business until he was properly regis- 
tered. 
The Pharmaceutical Register for 1886, Victoria, has been 
published, giving the list of chemists registered in Victoria. 
We have carefully checked about an eighth of the names here 
given, and find that the addresses given are accurate in about 
81 per cent., the remaining 19 per cent, being obsolete. 
Medical Society of Victoria. — The annual meeting of this 
society was held on January 12, when the retiring president. 
Dr. Jamieson, delivered an rdlress on the Causation of 
Typhoid. Dr. J. Williams was elected president for the year 
1887. ^ In the course of the report, the committee remarked, 
“a friendly correspondence has been conducted with the 
Pharmacy Board, which resulted in the society receiving satis- 
factory assurance from the board of its intention to suppress 
irregular practice by registered chemists. Practical examples 
of this inter, tion have not been wanting, unfortunately the 
penalties infiicted upon offenders have been too lenient.” 
In response to invitations from the Department of Agricul- 
ture for the position of pupil to the agricultural chemist, Mr. 
A. N. Pearson, two applications were received, but uo one has 
yet been appointed. Applicants were required to be not less 
than 16 or more than 20 years of age, to produce a certificate 
of health, and also testimony as to character, industry and 
trustworthiness ; also to have some knowledge of tools and 
ordinary constructive works ; also the leading principles of 
organic chemistry and natural sciences. The position will be 
for four years, the salary at the commencement being £40, 
and advancing by annual increments of £10. The success- 
ful applicant is required to furnish two securities of £100 
each. 
Early Closing at Ballarat. — A letter on this subject has 
appeared in both the Ballarat papers, and we make some ex- 
tracts from it. After dealing with the question generally, the 
Avriter, who is evidently a chemist, adds: — “ The chemists 
agreed among the rest to close on the Friday afternoon, and 
at half-past nine p.ni., surely late hour enougli for any 
reasonable person. But, ridiculous as it may appear, this 
concession was obtained with great difficulty. For some little 
time it was jiretty generally observed by some of the chemists 
most loyally. But with one or two there has always been a 
difficulty, a continual shuffling and evasion, an evident desire 
to steal a march upon their more honorable neighbors. First 
a door ajar, then a door shutter down, then both, and now the 
doors are wide open on the Friday afternoon, and the lights 
behind the bottles blazing away till half-past ten. The old 
slavery as bad as ever. I notice one or two other business 
places open on Friday afternoon. Small places, -it is true, but 
the thin edge of the wedge is being introduced, and there are 
plenty of paltry souls ready to shelter themselves behind the 
callous meanness of bolder spirits, and, some day, the whole 
system will, if not watched, be found to be at an end.” 
Fire Caused by Collodion. — At the Mercantile Bond, 148 
Flinders-street West, Melbourne, on Jan. 4, a case of collodion 
deposited by the importers, Messrs. Dickson and Co,, was- 
found to be leaking almost as soon as it reached the cellar 
floor, and while the attendant went to get some sawdust ta 
soak up the leakage, the case burst into flames. An inquest 
was held before the city coroner on Jan. 18, when the evidence 
was most emphatic on the one side that there was no artificial 
light in the cellar, no one smoking, and no flame of any kind, 
and on the other side, Mr. Baker, manufacturing chemist, and 
Mr. Cosmo Newbery, were equally positive that it could not 
ignite or explode without contact with flame. Nothing but 
the one case was destroyed. The coroner tried to reconcile 
the contradiction by suggesting that when the ether and spirit 
of wine had leaked away from the collodion, leaving the gun 
cotton dry, there Avas more danger of it getting alight. We 
fear this explanation will seem too ingenious to our readers. 
A fire occurred soon after 6 o’clock on January 27, on the 
premises of Robert Anderson, manufacturing chemist, 375 
Brunswick-street, Fitzroy. A feAV buckets of water extin- 
guished the flames which had caught some shelves and a 
quantity of labels. The occupant of the building is insured 
for £1000. 
A public banquet, tickets one guinea each, will be tendered 
to Mr. Bosisto as a welcome, 
Mr. Edw’ard Lloyd Marks, formerly lecturer on chemistry- 
botany, &c., at the Sandhurst School of Mines, has been elected 
a Fellow of the Chemical Society. 
Mr. Wm. EdAA’ard Le Fanu Hearn, M.B., has been appointed 
analyst for the borough of Hamilton, rice Mr. Wm. Miller 
Dickinson, resigned. 
Mr. William Charles Bohn, of Dunolly, chemist, has been 
declared insolvent. He attributes his failure to falling off in 
business and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £477 16s. 3d.; 
assets, £260; deficiency, £217 16s. 3d. Mr. P. Virtue 
assignee. 
Mr. J. B. L. Mackay, prjelector of chemistry at Trinity 
College, has been elected FelloAV of the Chemical Society and 
has also been appointed lecturer in Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics at the college for the present year. 
Mr. C. R. Blackett, of Gertrude-stret, Fitzroy, is about ta 
disi)ose of his business to Mr. T. B. Jones, his former manager. 
Corrcsjjonbciue. 
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AUvays send your proper name and address ; we do not publish them unUss 
you wish, but can pay no attention to anonyynous communications. 
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If you send us neu'S2)a.pers jdease mark what you u'ish us to read. 
*'■ Speak freely what you Shakespeare. 
FIGHTING THE STORES AND STOREKEEPERS, 
To the Editor of The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia. 
Sir, — I approach you again with a request for a little space 
to attack the store question. 
Since Avriting to you last month it has afforded me un- 
bounded satisfaction to read in the columns of The Chemist 
and Druggist of Nov. 27, 1886, that the plan I advocate for 
securing the monopoly of the sale of proprietary articles, to 
the exclusion of stores, grocers, etc., has been in a measure 
anticipated. We are told that a firm of manufacturing iron- 
mongers, with the object of siij^pressing “cutting,” notified 
their customers as follows : — “ We request you to sell our 
manufactures to the public at list prices. Any departure from 
this rule will close the account,” and we are further told that 
it AA’-orked well, and that “ n verg satisfactorg and increasing 
business is the outcome.’^ If a firm will voluntarily take up 
this attitude, can it be doubted that if e\'en a small number of 
chemists requested proj)rietors to folloAV the same course, the 
