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THE CHEMIST AND DEUGGIST OF AUSTEALASIA. 
May 1, 1887. 
PHARMACY BOARD OF QUEENSLAND. 
Wakefield's Buildings, 
Edward-st., BRISBANE. 
President— C. H. F. YEO. 
Treasurer— EDWARD TAYLOR. 
Other Members of the Board— A. W. FIELD, J. H. FITZ- 
GIBBON, T. W. THOMASON and D. J. CLARK. 
Secretary and Registrar— FRANK TAYLOR. 
Board of Examiners — A. W. FIELD, Botany and Materia Medica; 
D. J. CLARK, Pharmacy and Practical Dispensing; T, W. 
THOMASON, Chemistry. • 
XAMINATIONS— The Preliminary Examination is held quarterly 
in the first week of the following months, viz., March, June, 
September, and December. 
Examiner, J. S. Herman Schmidt. Pee, £3 3s. 
1 1 1 HE Professional Examination is held quarterly as above. Fee 
£3 3s. A candidate not passing in all subjects may present him- 
self again within six months on payment of half fee, viz., £1 Hs. 6d. 
“D EGISTRATION — Persons holding certificates from the Pharma- 
ceutical Society of Great Britain, or of Ireland, or of New South 
Wales may be registered in Queensland on payment of the fee of £2 2s., 
and persons holding certificates from the Pharmacy Boards of New 
Zealand, may be provisionally registered under the Act until the 1st 
of May, 1887. Fee, £2 2s. 
Other Registrations of Chemists, £1 Is. 
Registration of Indentures of Apprenticeship, 10s. 6d. 
/COPIES of “ The Pharmacy Act, 1884” and the Regulations can be 
^ obtained from the Registrar. Price, Is. 
Registrar, FRANK TAYLOR. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND. 
President— EDWARD TAYLOR. 
^ice-President— J. H. FITZGIBBON. 
Hon. Secretary — C. H. F. YEO. 
Treasurer— WALTER TAYLOR. 
APPRENTICES INDENTURES REGISTERED. 
Heinrich Schmidt, apprenticed to Mr. Thomas Watson 
Thomason, of Stanley-street, South Brisbane. 
POSITION OF TICTORIAN AND NEW SOUTH WALES CERTIFIC.ATES, 
As the “ additional regulations,” recognising the Pharma- 
ceutical Society of New South Wales and the Pharmacy 
Boards of the colonies of New Zealand and Victoria as 
Boards of Pharmacy under the Act until the 1st of May, 1887, 
will to all intents and purposes lapse at the end of this 
month, it was resolved that for the future the Pharmaceuti- 
cal Society of New South Wales be recognised as a College or 
Board of Pharmacy under the 20th section of the Act, and 
the Registrar was instructed to take the usual action to obtain 
the approval of the Governor-in-Council. 
The Registrar was also instructed to write to those persons 
registered under the Victorian certificate, and intimate 
that their provisional registration will expire on the 30th 
instant, and that on and after the 1st of May next they will 
be illegally keeping open shop, and be liable to prosecution. 
A letter, dated 3rd March, from the Under Colonial Secre- 
tary, was read, intimating that His Excellency the Governor, 
with the advice of the Executive Council, has been pleased to 
approve of the addition to Regulation 41 of the Regulations, 
made in pursuance of “The Pharmacy Act of 1884,” notifi- 
cation whereof appeared in the last issue of the Gazette. 
The addition referred to is of the words “but rejected can* 
didates may present themselves for re-examination within six 
(6) months on payment of half-fees.” 
The ordinary correspondence and financial matters closed 
the meeting. 
Supposed Poison Plants. — A pamphlet on supposed poison 
plants and plants deleterious to stock in Queensland, by the 
Colonial Botanist, Mr. E. M. Bailey, and the Chief Inspector 
of Stock, has recently been published by the Government 
Printer. Price, 4s. 
Extract of Meat. — The B.I.S.N. mail steamer, “Almora” 
took for Rockhampton 100 cases of extract of meat. 
The Bundaher<j Star states that the scented verbena from 
which essential oil is obtained grows freely in that district, 
and that the oil is worth 20s. an ounce. Here is a chance for 
a chemist. 
Chloride op Lime. — The bark “ Irvine,” recently discharged 
at Rockhampton, had a cargo consisting chiefly of chloride 
of lime. The casks were so rotten that in some cases they fell 
to pieces while being handled, and when the lower tiers were 
reached the workmen could not stay in the hold many minutes 
at a time. 
'~|y/j~EETINGS — Last Thursday in each mouth, 
TV^EMBERS— Applications for Membership must be made to the 
Secretary. The applicant must be nominated. 
Annual Subscription, £1 Is. 
A SSOCIATES— Applicants for election as Associates must send in 
their applications to the Secretary. 
“PRIVILEGES— Votes at Annual Meetings and General Meetings, 
and for election of Council and Officers. 
"P ACH Member is supplied with “THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST,” 
^ (London), weekly. “THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF 
AUSTRALASIA,” monthly, “THE CHEMISTS’ AND DRUGGISTS’ 
DIARY,” annually. 
QUE ENSL AND. 
THE PHARMACY BOARD OF QUEENSLAND. 
The usual monthly meeting of the Pharmacy Board 
Queensland was put off for a week on account of the East 
holidays, and was held on Tuesday, the 19th April 1887 
Present— Messrs. Yeo, Taylor, Field, Clarke, and Thom; 
«on. The president (Mr. C. H. F. Yeo) in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and coi 
firmed. 
There were no applications for registration. 
RESEARCHES ON QUEENSLAND PLANTS. 
At the March meeting of the Royal Society of Queensland, 
a series of papers on the above subject by Dr. T. L. Bancroft 
were communicated by Mr. H. Tryon: — First, 
“ On the Physiological Action of Cryptocarya Australis.” 
The plant, so named by the late Mr. Bentham, is a 
member of the family Laurinere, and a small tree which grows 
plentifully about Brisbane. Its bark has a very persistently 
bitter taste, and a poisonous nature, its toxic action being 
due to the presence of an alkaloid which can be separated as 
a colourless crystalline body— the component crystals being 
acicular and arranging themselves from solution in stellate 
masses. This alkaloid is intensely bitter, like the bark itself. 
Warm-blooded animals to which it is administered exhibit at 
first respiratory difficulty soon ending in asjffiyxial convulsions 
and death. It has also a poisonous action on animals of a 
lower order, such as reptilia. Other species of the same genus 
Daphnandra, grow in the colony, and those which have been 
examined are found to be similarly poisonous. Moreover it 
is interesting to note in any plant belonging to the natural 
order Laurineffi, an active principle of such a nature as that 
which Daphnandra has been seen to contain. 
A second paper by the same author, Dr. T. L. Bancroft, 
was entitled, 
“ On the Discovert of Saponin in Acacia Delibrata 
A. Gunn.” 
Saponin is a substance which forms a frothy matter in 
water, like soap, and is one of the constituents of the garden 
plant, Saponaria officinalis. On biting the seed-pod from a 
a tree of the above acacia, which was found growing in a scrub 
on the Gregory River, the author remarked that it had not the 
usual astringent taste of an acacia, but a disagreeable acrid 
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