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and Tompsitt from the Pharmaceutical Society, in conjunction with Messrs. 
Blackett, Brind, and H. Francis, members of the Pharmacy Board. 
The committee will, on an early date, prepare and forward to the other 
colonies for approval a general outline of the business to be submitted to the 
conference, and will invite their co-operation and assistance. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Letters were received and dealt with from Messrs. Clewer, Taylor, Scott, 
MacAlpine, Burroughs, Forrest, and Ash. The secretary also submitted the corres- 
pondence sent to Messrs. S. Plowman, A. H. Jackison, F. Forrest, W. J. Main, 
J. Y. Morgan, Professor Dunstan, F. B. Wilkinson, etc. Financial and general 
business brought the meeting to a close. 
THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA. 
The Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia was held 
on the evening of Wednesday, 10th inst., at the College of Pharmacy, Swanston- 
street, Melbourne. 
Mr. Wm. Bowen, J.P., the President, occupied the chair, and there were also 
present — Messrs. Blackett, J.P., Huntsman, Gamble, Hooper, Tompsitt, Owen, 
Francis, Atkin, Mummery, Potts, Strutt, J. T. Thomas, Ringsland, Baker, Brinsmead, 
Dalton, It. D. Bowen, Henshall, Hodgkiss, Farmer, Dalton, De Beare, Graham 
Mitchell, and Corinaldi. 
The Hon. Secretary (Mr. H. Shillinglaw) read the minutes of the previous 
meeting, which were duly confirmed. The following was announced as the result of the 
ballot for the election of four members of the Council, vice Messrs Bowen, Tompsitt, 
J ones and Lacey, the retiring members : — 
Mr. H. T. Tompsitt 
Votes. 
157 
Mr. Wm. Bowen 
141 
Mr. R. P. Francis 
114 
Mr. Wm. Y. Nelson 
95 
Mr. S. M. Dalton 
92 
Mr. J. Clark Jones 
75 
The first four gentlemen werejtberefore declared duly elected. 
The retiring Auditors, Messrs. C. A. Atkin and W. Hodgkiss, were re-elected 
without opposition. 
Mr. Bowen returned thanks for his re-election; Mr. Tompsitt responded for 
himself and the other elected members of the Council ; and Mr. Atkin, for the 
Auditors, in acknowledging the compliment implied by the absence of any 
opposition to their re-election, referred to the admirable manner in which the 
accounts had been kept by the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. H. Gamble. 
The Annual Report and Balance-sheet were then presented and adopted on the 
motion of Mr. S. S. Strutt, seconded by Mr. H. W. Potts. The latter gentleman 
took occasion to refer in specially congratulatory terms to the very satisfactory 
condition of the Society. Speaking as a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Queensland, as well as that of Australasia, he stated that the progress of 
pharmacy in Victoria was regarded with sympathetic enthusiasm by Queensland 
brethren, and that the names of Messrs. Bosisto, Blackett, Bowen, and of the 
