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INDEX TO LITERARY CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Editorial Notes 115 
The Pharmaceutical Society of New 
South 'Wales and the Board of Tech- 
nical Education 115 
Pharmaceutical Legislation .. .. 116 
The Pharmacy Board of Victoria and 
the Federal Store 117 
Prize for best series of poison labels. . 117 
Labelling Mixtures 118 
.Notes on Australian Plants, by Baron 
Von Mueller 118 
New South Wales 119 
Pharmacy Board 119 
Pharmaceutical Society 119 
From our own Correspondent . . . . 120 
Alleged Poisoning by Stedman’s Powder 122 
New Zealand 123 
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Pharmacy Board 123 
Letters from our own Correspondents — 
Auckland 123 
Dunedin 124 
New Zealand Drug Co. — Annual Report 124 
Queensland 126 
Pharmacy Board 126 
Researches on Queensland Plants . . 126 
Pharmacy in Queensland . . . . 127 
South Australia . . 128 
Pharmaceutical Society 128 
From our own Correspondent . . . . 129 
The South Australian Preliminary Ex- 
amination . . . . . . . . . . 130 
Tasmania 131 
Hobart Chemists’ Association . . . . 131 
Sale of Poisons Act — First Prosecution 132 
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Victoria 133 
Pharmacy Board 133 
Pharmaceutical Society 133 
The Pharmacy Board and the Federal 
store 134 
Wm. Johnson, portrait and memoir .. 135 
Medicines Most Used in Australia . . 136 
The Preparation of Lanolin . . . . 140 
Correspondence . . . . . • . . 141 
Student’s Corner 142 
American Trade Notes 14S 
Trade Notes 143 
London Trade Report 143 
Patents Applied For 144 
Trade Marks Applied For 144 
Insolvencies * 144 
INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Abraham’s Pills, Sydney , . , . . . . . . . xvii 
Armstrong, R. B. Sydney xiv 
Assistants Wanting Situations . . . , , . xvi 
Atkin, C. Ager, Melbourne. . .. ,, .. vii 
Australian Drug Company, Sydney . . . . . . xxiii 
Australian Dental Depot, Melbourne . . « . . . xv 
Aylward, J., Redfern xiii 
Beecham, C., Melbourne .. ,, .. .. xiv 
Berkley, Taylor & Co., Brisbane .. .. xiv 
Burgoyne, Burbidges, Cyriax & Co. London , . ' . . xx 
Agent — T. Lakeman, Sydney 
Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., Melbourne & London . . ix 
Businesses for Disposal . . . . . . * , . . xvi 
Chateb, a. B., Brisbane . , . . . . . . . . v 
Doublet, E. Sydney vi 
Elliott Bros., Sydney . . . , , , , , . . xxv 
Evans, Lescher & Webb, London . , , . . . viii 
Agent — ^W. J. Watkins. 
Felton, Gbimwadb <& Co., Melbourne .. .. xxvi 
Fludder, j. H., Sydney . . . . . . . . . . xiv 
Gutheil, H., Melbourne iv 
Harrison, T. S. & Co., Melbourne. . . . . . . . xv 
Hogg, S. P. & Co., Sydney , . , , , , . . iv 
Husband’s Spectacles *• .. *. .. xv 
India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co. Ld. vii 
Ingham’s Euphorbia, Eockhampton . . . . . . xvi 
Jones, T. & Co., Sydney . . , . , . • . . . xiii 
Joseph, A. X., Sydney xviii, xix 
Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Dunedin . . . . . . xii 
Law’s Magic Ointsient, Sydney . . . . . . . . xv 
Lester, S. Sydney .. .. .. .. •» .. xiii 
Liebe, Paul, . . 
Agent — G. Arnold, Sydney .. .. .. •• xvi 
Lynch & Co., London . . . . • . . • . . ii 
Agent — L angton Rivers, Melbourne 
Marshall, Bros. Sydney . . . . . . . . v, xxii 
Martin & Pleasance, Melbourne . . . . . . . . xii 
Matthews, John, New York xiii 
Mayne, Jas., Sydney. . .. .. .. .. .. v 
Melhuish, T. B., Sydney . . , , . . . . . . v 
Miscellaneous Advertisements . . . . . . . . xvi 
Offord’s Veterinary Preparations, Melbourne.. .. vii 
Pebdriau & Co., Sydney . . . . . . . . . . iv 
Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales . . , , v 
SiTAariAND & Co., Auckland . • . . . . . . iii 
Sinclair & Co., Melbourne .. .. .. .. xxi 
Situations Vacant . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi 
Soul, Washington, H., & Co., Sydney xv 
Specialty Manufacturing Co., Melbourne . • . . iv 
Stearns, F, & Co., Detroit, U.S.A. . . . . . . . . xii 
Stewart, J., Sydney .. .. .. .. .. iv 
The Art of Pharmacy xxiv 
Toogood, W., London . . . . • . . . . . x, xi 
Agent — A. I. Joseph, Sydney 
Witt Co., Prahran .. vii 
Williams Son., •• xiii 
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