Oct. i, 1885.] The Australasian Scientific Magazine. 109. 
Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia. 
The monthly meeting of the council of the Parmaceutical Society of 
Australasia was held at the College of Pharmacy, Swanston Street, on Friday 
evening, the 4th of September. The president, Mr. William Bowen, was 
in the chair. Messrs. Frederick I. Eyre and John H. Dixon, South Aus- 
tralia ; Angus McLeod and B. J. G. Weaver, New South Wales ; Edward 
G. Owen and W. Y. Nelson, Melbourne — were elected as members. A 
communication from the Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales was 
read, intimating that the proposal to hold an Intercolonial Pharmaceutical 
Conference had lapsed in consequence of South Australia, New Zealand, 
and Tasmania declining to take part in it. Some months ago the names 
of the delegates who would attend as representatives of Victoria were sent 
to Sydney, and also the suggestions as to the federation of the education 
and laws relating to pharmacy, which it was proposed to discuss. These, 
however, did not appear to be favourably received by the New South Wales 
society, and that body showed little interest in the project. The advisa- 
bility of holding a conference in Melbourne next year was spoken of, and 
there is a prospect of it taking place. The committee who, in conjunction 
with Mr. J. Bosisto, M.L.A., undertook the framing of desired amend- 
ments in the Pharmacy Act, submitted a report, which was adopted, and 
the amendments to the proposed Dental Act, now before Parliament, pro- 
tecting certain interests of pharmaceutical chemists, were considered and 
agreed to. The provisions for the teaching staff at the College of Pharmacy 
for the year 1886 were discussed at some length, and it is proposed to se- 
cure lecturers in chemistry, botany, and materia medica from England for 
the next session. It was resolved to forward to the Colonial and Indian 
Pdxhibition photographic views of the interior and exterior of the College of 
Pharmacy, and copies of the Society’s journal of transactions. 
Amateur Photographic Association of Victoria. 
The general monthly meeting of the Amateur Photographic Association 
of Victoria was held on Tuesday evening, the 8th of September, at the 
Royal Society’s Hall. Mr. E. C. Bell, vice-president, was in the chair.. 
Messrs. Norris, Madden, Lang, and Mallet were elected members. 
Several photographs, forming the balance of a number received from the 
Amateur Photographic Association of Wellington, New Zealand, were 
placed on the table, some of them being of a high degree of merit, both in 
a technical and artistic sense. Mr. Lang showed a few portraits and views, 
printed in Platinum. Subsequently, the Secretary demonstrated a method 
of preparing lantern transparencies on dry collodion plates. A plate was 
coated, sensitised in the silver bath, washed, coated with the preservative, 
and exposed under a negative to the light of the sciopticon ; the picture 
was then developed, and the resulting transparency was exceedingly clear, 
and of a rich, warm tone. Several other slides, produced in the same 
manner, were passed through the lantern, in order to show the range of 
tones obtainable by this method. A slide printed in carbon was shown by 
Mr. Musgrove. 
