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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[June 22, 1872. 
PHARMACY IN THE SOUTHERN STATES OF 
AMERICA. 
We are frequently applied to for information 
respecting the rate of payment and the comparative 
advantages offered to pharmacists in different parts 
•of the world. We are, therefore, glad to be able to 
give a quotation from a letter upon this subject re¬ 
ceived from a correspondent at Memphis, Tennessee, 
U.S. He says :— 
“ Salaries arc much higher here than in England, or 
♦even Canada. I receive now 100 dollars, or £20 a month, 
and shall, at the end of the present month, be receiving- 
125 dollars a month. Expenses are, however, much 
heavier, as it is impossible to live here under 600 dollars 
a year, which, however, leaves a fair margin for saving. 
Rents are enormous. For the shop and five rooms 
upstairs, this firm pays £700, or 3500 dollars a year. . . . 
•<_tood dispensers are well paid here, receiving from 
1(00 dollars to 1500 dollars a year; but it is difficult for 
n, stranger to get into a place. English diplomas,—of the 
Pharmaceutical Society, for example,—are highly es¬ 
teemed, being considered much more reliable than those 
granted in this country, In fact, of American diplomas 
those of Philadelphia ^are the only ones of any value in 
-the south.” 
We learn from Ceylon that, in consequence of tlie 
higher price realized in the home market for the 
bark of Cinchona officinalis over that of C. succi- 
ruhra, considerably more attention is now being 
given to the cultivation of the former species. A 
single firm in the island, whose exportation of C. 
■officinalis realized in England as much as 36’. 3d. 
per pound for unassorted bark, has applied to the 
•Government plantations for as many as 350,000 
plants. 
Ix the neighbourhood of Port Lincoln, South 
Australia, large quantities of the malvaceous plant 
Plagiantlius spieatus, Bth., have recently made 
their appearance, and have proved fatal to cattle 
and sheep, who appear to be very fond of the young 
flower-spikes. The plants are stated to appear 
periodically. One resident communicates to Dr. 
Schombuugk that he had not seen it in his neigh¬ 
bourhood for fully five years, and never in such 
large quantity. After a bush fire which happened 
recently in the district, the plants suddenly sprang 
up over hundreds of acres of land, and in many 
places they were so thick that a man could only 
with difficulty walk through them. They grow to a 
height of from three to five feet. The tops of the 
flower-spikes appear to be the parts most relished by 
•cattle and sheep, and these portions are said to be 
the most poisonous. The first effects upon the ani¬ 
mals, after eating them, are described as a kind of 
trembling, succeeded by a rapid and total loss of 
muscular power, so that they fall and die in great 
agony in the course of a few hours. A post-mortem 
-examination shows the liver, stomach and viscera to 
be much inflamed. Hundreds of cattle and sheep 
.are reported to have died from eating the plants. 
The fact of this poisoning is worthy of note, be¬ 
longing as the plant does to an order celebrated for 
its harmless and mucilaginous properties. 
Crrasarfimts fit % lijarmamttol jsffrirfjr. 
EXAMINATION IN LONDON. 
June 14 th, 1872. 
Present—Messrs. Allchin, Barnes, Bird, Carteighe, 
Cracknell, Davenport, Gale, Haselden, Ince and Lin¬ 
ford. 
Forty-five candidates presented themselves for the 
Modified Examination; of these, eighteen failed. The 
following twenty-seven passed, and were declared quali¬ 
fied to be registered as Chemists and Druggists:— 
Bannister, Theophilus Mayo.Nottingham. 
Binge, Alfred .Islington. 
Biss, John William.Southsea. 
Boden, Henry .Tottenham. 
Chant, Herbert Alfred.Langport. 
Cutforth, John Dixon.Manchester. 
Davies, Thomas Burton.Hawai’den. 
Friend, William .Braunton. 
Gorton, Charles .Whitechapel. 
Hepburn, John.Fraserburgh. 
Hilton, William .Whitefield. 
Insull, Edward Samuel .Shelton. 
Kitchen, George Seaton .Stamford. 
Knight, George Edward Moses.... Southampton. 
Lcaroyd, William Valentine.Manchester. 
Miller, Henry .. .Jersey. 
Monkhouse, Henry.Derby. 
Pechey, Henry.London. 
Plumridge, Charles.. London. 
Pride, Arthur Edwin .Nottingham. 
Prytherch, Rees ... Llandovery. 
Roberts, David Watkin .Chester. 
South, George ... Camden Town. 
Speight, Robert .Lincoln. 
Thomas, William...St. Leonards. 
Trim, Edmund.London. 
Wilcox, William...Dover. 
ntinral f ntimriiras. 
NORTHAMPTON CHEMISTS’ ASSISTANTS AND 
APPRENTICES’ ASSOCIATION. 
The monthly meeting of this Association wa3 held on 
June 7th ; Mr. Masters, President, in the chair. There 
was a large attendance of members. A specimen of 
Comum maculatum, eight feet high, gathered on the 
previous botanical ramble, was exhibited. 
The Secretary (Mr. Druce) read the minutes of last 
meeting and various letters which had been received 
during the month, and announced that they had received 
for their Presenption-Book fifty local prescriptions from 
Messrs. Tigar and Bird, six of Dr. Ware’s from Joseph 
Ince, Esq., and sixteen from J. Baynes, E3q., Hull, con¬ 
taining specimens of Dr. Humphrey Sandwith’s and Sir 
Henry Cooper’s prescribing. Messrs. Evans, Lescher 
and Evans had kindly promised them a Materia Medica 
Cabinet, which would be lent to the members for a speci¬ 
fied time. 
Mr. Lance read a paper on u Myrrh ; illustrative of its 
origin, history, description and preparations.” 
Mr. Masters read a paper on the “ Storage of Poisons,” 
containing many useful suggestions. 
Mr. Sheppard read an essay on “Education,” which 
led to a long discussion. 
