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recording, if only to amuse the more learned with an account of the simple 
attempts of an amateur. 
Having recently superintended the “iodine process” for annihilating a blot 
of marking-ink from linen, it occurred to me to try it upon the violet silk ; the 
plan I adopted is as follows, and will serve as a recipe:— Brush the portion 
of fabric with tincture of iodine, then, after a fete seconds, to ell saturate the 
spot with a solution of hyposulphite of soda, and dry gradually ; the colour is 
perfectly restored, and I consider my experiment highly satisfactory. 
March , 1864. M. A. 13. 
P.S.—I should have stated that it was knowing something of the chemical 
composition and properties of iodine induced me to make the experiment which 
I have described. 
THE NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, 1865. 
Offices of the Royal Commission , Dunedin , Otago, 
New Zealand , Ylth November, 1863. 
Sir,—I have the honour to forward, for the information of the Pharmaceutical So¬ 
ciety, copies of documents, by which you will perceive that a Commission has been 
issued in the name of her Majesty for the holding of an Industrial Exhibition at Dun¬ 
edin of the products and manufactures of New Zealand, and such products and manu¬ 
factures of other countries as may in the opinion of the Commissioners be eminently cal¬ 
culated to aid in the development of the colony. 
The Commissioners desire to see a complete collection of drugs and chemicals amongst 
the exhibits, and would be greatly obliged to your Society for any aid they can afford 
them in the matter, either by themselves exhibiting, or inducing others to do so. 
The agent for the New Zealand Government, Mr. John Morrison, Adelaide Place, 
London Bridge, who has been requested to act as the agent for the Commissioners, 
would afford any further information relative to the Exhibition. 
I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, 
Alfred Eccles, Honorary Secretary. 
PHARMACY IN JAMAICA. 
We extract the following from the ‘Jamaica Guardian’ of January 7, 1864 :— 
“ Several parties having applied to us to know what are the provisions of the Bill 
which has been introduced into the House of Assembly by the Government to provide 
for the registration of chemists and druggists in this island, we take the earliest possible 
opportunity of giving a synopsis of the measure. The first clause provides that upon the 
passing of the Act, the Island Secretary shall be the registrar, and the office of enrol¬ 
ment the registry office, of duly-qualified chemists and druggists. The third enacts that 
every person who, having obtained a certificate of his competency to compound and dis¬ 
pense medicines, actually compounded and dispensed medicines and drugs as a chemist 
and druggist in this island previous to the passing of the Act, shall, on payment of a 
fee of ten shillings to the registrar, and production to him of such certificate, and a de¬ 
claration, or of a declaration where the certificate has been lost or cannot be found, 
according to a form set forth in the Act, signed and declared to by him, be entitled to be 
registered as a duly-qualified chemist and druggist. The fourth clause is to the effect 
that it shall be lawful for any two duly-qualified and registered medical practitioners in 
this island, on the application of any person who may have served an apprenticeship of 
three years to a duly-qualified and registered practitioner of medicine and surgery in this 
island, and who is desirous of being certificated to act as a druggist, to examine such 
person touching his qualifications to act as such, and, upon being satisfied thereof, to 
grant to such person, under their hands and seals, a certificate of his qualification to 
compound and dispense medicines, drugs, and chemicals, which certificate shall bear a 
stamp of twenty shillings; and such person shall record the certificate in the office of 
