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Kaikoura Star, 8 October 1897, Page 2

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The Otago College of Pharmacy.

(From, Otago Daily Times )

Probably few people are aware of the existence of the Otago College of Pharmacy, which was inaugurated about 12 months ago by Mr KidstonHunter, under the patronage of the Pharmacy Board. A member of our staff has paid a visit to the college, which is located in the Colonial Mutual Insurance Company’s Buildings, at the corner of High and Princes streets. Mr Kidston-Hunter, who was recently appointed city analyst by the council, occupies the third and top floors of the buildings above mentioned. On reaching the third floor by means of the elevator or spiral staircase, the visitor enters the office. Here are to be seen, among other things, a compact library of scientific works, as well as different analytical and assaying balances of delicate construction. Adjoining the office is a bacteriological laboratory, fitted up with all the necessary appliances for investigating germs existing in meat, etc. The laboratory is the only one of its kind belonging to a private individual in the Colony. On the top floor of the building is situated the lecture room and general laboratory in connection with the college. This room is about 45ft in length by 22 feet in width, and is fitted up with all the necessary appliances forgiving instruction in chemistry, materia medica, botany, See. At the end of the lecture room is the assay department, consisting of two rooms, one of which contains a large furnace built on the latest approved principle. In the other room —the sample room—is an ore crusher if new design, in which the ore is pulverised prior to being passed through fine sieves and prepared tor treatment. At the other end of the lecture room is a private laboratory., where a large “collection of materia medica specimens, as well ns various official salts and reagents, may be seen. In this department ail private analytical work is done by Mr Kidston-Hunter and his assistants, of whom he has three. There are at the present time 20 students in attendance at the college ; and some idea of the extent of the work carried on by Mr Kidston-Hunter and his assistants may be gathered when it is stated thet during the past two years they had made 1000 analyses and assays.