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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[August 3, 1872. 
fell ratlier flat through the absence of the person 
whose conduct was arraigned. But Lord Derby’s 
speech was temperate and forcible, and its fair¬ 
ness contrasted strongly with the insinuation of 
Lord Stanley of Alderley, that the celebrated 
memorial to Mr. Gladstone, signed by eleven lead¬ 
ing men of science, was not called forth by sym¬ 
pathy for Dr. Hooker, nor ill-will to Mr. Ayrton 
but by the fact that Professor Owen had expressed 
certain views in a recent Blue Booh. This is not 
the way to meet such a charge as that made against 
the First Commissioner of Works, in which his 
colleagues, to judge by a recent Treasury minute, 
appear to some extent to concur, and most people 
now think that it is quite time that the person prin¬ 
cipally concerned had made a reply to it from his 
place in the House of Commons. 
The Calcutta correspondent of the Times writes 
that the Government of India have conferred the 
title of Rai Baliadoor upon a purely native medical 
man, Baboo Kanny Loll Dey, teacher of chemistry 
and medical jurisprudence in the Medical College, 
Calcutta, and Honorary Member of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society of Great Britain, in recognition of 
his services to medical science. The Sunnail was pre¬ 
sented at the inaugural lecture of the session amid 
much applause, and was followed by very hearty 
congratulations. The native Press is quite enthusi¬ 
astic on the subject. The title is equivalent to 
our order of knighthood, and is highly esteemed in 
India. 
We are informed that, in consequence of an inti¬ 
mation that such a course would be more agreeable, 
it has been resolved by the Brighton pharmacists to 
invite the members of the Pharmaceutical Conference 
to meet them at a cold supper instead of the proposed 
dinner. Members of the Conference wishing to be 
present are requested to communicate with the Local 
Secretary, Mr. Thomas Glaisyer, 12, North Street, 
not later than Saturday, August 10th, in order that 
arrangements may be made for a specified number. 
Another instance of the manner in which some¬ 
times at the end of a session a Bill undergoes im¬ 
portant modification with scarcely any discussion 
occurred last week. So much of the original Public 
Health Bill had been sacrificed to the necessity of 
time that it would have appeared hopeless to expect 
the introduction of any clauses dealing with the metro¬ 
politan water supply. But the proposition of Mr. 
Kay Shuttle worth, carried by a majority of 177, to 
transfer the statutory powers of supervision over the 
companies supplying the metropolis with water, 
hitherto possessed by the Board of Trade, to the Me¬ 
tropolitan Board of Works, may possibly lead to 
some improvement. The members of the Board of 
AY orks have no personal an interest in the matter, 
and they have already exerted themselves so well to 
secure a constant and improved supply, that it may 
be hoped they may be able to overcome the inertia 
with which the Companies have so long baulked the 
just desires of the consumers. 
It is a fact beyond dispute that the great Inter¬ 
national Shows which were inaugurated in 1851 have 
not been productive to any appreciable extent of new 
economic or pharmaceutical products. No doubt 
they have acted as incentives to arts and manufac¬ 
tures, and the annual recurrence of these Exhibi¬ 
tions, confined as each one now is to particular or 
special objects, will no doubt prove of more lasting 
value to those whose interest is centred in one or 
more of the sections. 
According to the arrangements at present issued 
for the next eight years, one section of the Exhibi¬ 
tion next year will come more under our own 
ken than that of the present or last year; for 
amongst the subjects for 1873, under the general 
head of “ Substances used for Food” will be exhi¬ 
bited drysaltery, grocery, prepa rations of food, wines, 
spirits, beer and other drinks and tobacco. Though 
these are not subjects immediately connected with 
this Journal, there are off-shoots which will make 
the exhibition of some interest in a pharmaceutical 
point of view. It is not, however, till 1880 that we are 
promised a full recognition of our own direct branches 
of science, but in that year “ chemical substances, 
and products, and experimental pharmaceutical pro¬ 
cesses,” etc., will form one of the most conspicuous 
divisions. 
We are led to these remarks by a consideration cf 
the divided opinion as to the value or otherwise of these 
international shows, and by the attempt this year of 
the officials having charge of the Queensland An¬ 
nexe to introduce a new article to British pharmacy, 
in the shape of the oil of the Dugong, an account of 
which we gave at p. 8 of the present volume of the 
i Journal, 
In the great Exhibitions of London and Paris from 
1851 down to 18(57, chemical and pharmaceutical 
products found a special feature in some of the Colo¬ 
nial collections, and these were duly reported upon 
by juries of competent men, but the efficacy of the 
articles or their preparations were never made the 
subjects of actual tests. An exception, however, to 
the rule occurred at the close of the Exhibition of' 
18G2, when, at the instance of Baroness (then Miss) 
Burdett Coutts, the collection of medicinal barks of 
British Guiana and Trinidad were subjected to the- 
test of actual experiment in the treatment of dis¬ 
eases by Mr. Charles Hunter at the Royal Pimlico. 
Dispensary; but, besides a published report, we are- 
not aware of any good accruing from this investiga¬ 
tion, or of further notice being taken of the sub¬ 
stances. The success which, it is said, has attended 
the use of Dugong oil in Queensland, and the sanr- 
guine hope of the promoters of its ultimate adoption 
in this country, is a sufficient recommendation that 
new articles with strongly reputed medicinal pro¬ 
perties should be fairly and satisfactorily tested. 
