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PHARMACEUTICAL  COLLEGES  AND  ASSOCIATIONS. 
California  College  of  Pharmacy. — The  annual  commencement  was  held  at 
Union  Hall,  San  Francisco,  on  the  evening  of  November  28th,  when  the  following 
gentlemen  received  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  :  Adolph  Sommer,  Jas. 
McL.  Mathewson,  Arthur  H.  H.  Smith,  Emile  C.  Mervy,  G.  G.  Burnett,  Louis  P. 
Messing,  George  W.  Minor,  Frank  L.  Vreeland.  A  gold  medal  was  awarded  to 
Mr.  Sommer,  and  a  microscope,  the  second  prize,  to  Mr.  Mathewson.  The  vale- 
•dictory  address  was  delivered  by  Prof.  W.  M.  Searby,  Ph.G. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain. — At  the  Pharmaceutical  meeting, 
held  December  3d,  the  stem  of  the  araroba  tree,  a  specimen  of  the  bark  of  the 
white  quebracho  tree,  Aspidosperma  quebracho,  and  of  yellow  pareira  brava,  were 
exhibited.  The  session  was  occupied  with  discussions  on  the  inspection  of  apothe- 
caries' weights  and  measures  as  directed  by  a  recent  law,  and  a  paper  on  the  volu- 
metric estimation  of  arsenious  acid,  by  W.  A.  H.  Naylor,  was  accepted  as  read. 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  New  South  Wales. — The  third  annual  meeting  was 
held  at  Sydney,  July  nth.  The  Society  has  taken  steps  to  secure  the  passage  of  an 
amendment  to  the  medical  bill  pending  before  the  Legislature,  and  to  introduce  a 
Pharmacy  Act  at  the  next  session  of  this  body.  The  retiring  members  of  the 
council,  including  the  President,  F.  Senoir,  were  re-elected. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  New  Zealand  was  instituted  January  28th, 
1879,  has  its  headquarters  at  Wellington,  with  Local  Committees  in  Auckland, 
Christchurch  and  Dunedin.  At  the  meeting  held  October  7th  the  society  had  107 
members.  A  pharmacy  bill  has  been  drafted  and  presented  to  parliament,  and 
endeavors  will  be  made  to  have  chemistry  classes  instituted  and  to  have  portions  of 
the  eeveral  provincial  botanical  gardens  set  apart  for  the  systematic  culture  of  all 
plants  of  importance  in  medicine.    The  President  is  Mr.  Chas.  D.  Barraud. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
The  Property  in  a  Prescription — In.  the  November  number  of  the  "New 
Orleans  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,"  we  observed  an  editorial,  entitled,  "  The 
Doctor  ^s.  the  Apothecary,"  in  which  substitutions  by  apothecaries,  property  in  pre- 
scriptions and  counter-prescribing  are  discussed,  and  the  thorough  education  of  the 
