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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
ANNUAL DINNER OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
This event, which took place on the 18th May, was largely attended, and a 
special interest attaches to its proceedings for Australian pharmacists in consequence 
of Mr. Jos. Bosisto, M.P., having taken a leading part in them. The chair was filled 
by the President of the Society, Mr. Carteighe, and the company was represen- 
tative of science and learning, and included the following guests : — Mr. Joseph 
Bosisto, M.P., J.P., President of Commission for Victoria; Mr. J. A. Despeissis* 
Commissioner for Mauritius ; Mr. G-. H. Hawtayne, Executive Commissioner for 
British Guiana ; Dr. May, Commissioner of Education for Ontario ; Professor 
Remington, of Philadelphia ; Professor Wm. Saunders, of London, Ontario ; Mr. 
F. A. Swettenham, Executive Commissioner for Straits Settlements ; Mr. F. M. 
im Thurn, of the British Guiana Commission. After the toasts, “The Queen,” 
“The Houses of Parliament/* “The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex/* “The 
Learned Scientific Societies/* “ The Medical Profession/’ “ The Prosperity 
of the Pharmaceutical Society,” and “ The Health of the President,” 
had been proposed and duly honoured, “ the President/* says the Phar- 
maceutical Journal , “rose to propose 4 Our Guests,’ and said he was sure 
that this toast would be received with great enthusiasm. It was his 
privilege on this occasion to associate with that toast the names of certain 
colonial guests who were present. Besides distinguished guests at home, they had 
representatives from Victoria, Mauritius, British Guiana, Canada, the Straits 
Settlements, and also one from the United States. On behalf of the Pharmaceu- 
tical Society he tendered to all these guests a hearty and cordial welcome, and 
he ventured to express a hope on the part of the members of the Society that 
if those guests who were associated with pharmacy, medicine, or materia medica 
found anything worth copying that they would do so. He would ask them to 
bear in mind that Mr. Bosisto, who would be asked to respond for the toast, was 
not only a pharmacist, but a Commissioner for Victoria, as well as M.P. for 
Melbourne.” . . . 
“Mr. Joseph Bosisto, in responding, said he rose under somewhat emotional 
feeling, having been away from the fatherland close upon forty years. He 
remembered when the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded, 
having had the honour of being one of its earliest students. The students in 
Victoria felt great respect for the grand Institution, and they did not go forth 
to that land without feeling the deepest respect and reverence, and a further 
feeling of the duty which they owed to the late Jacob Bell. When they went 
forth to that country to try to get a living they united together to advance 
pharmacy, and he need only mention the names of Johnson, Lewis, Blackett? 
Brind, Iloldsworth, Bowen, Francis, and others, who had assisted him in founding 
the great Pharmaceutical Institution of Australia. They felt they would not 
have been worthy the name of that great Society, or of the name of their great 
founder, Jacob Bell, if they did not carry with them a determination to set forth 
pharmacy in Australia as it had been set forth in England. They felt proud of 
the Pharmaceutical Society of Great] Britain, and debtors for the knowledge 
which they possessed with reference to chemistry, and that it would ill become 
them if they did not express their deep gratitude for the information and know- 
ledge which they obtained when they were young, so that they could go forth to 
Australia and set before students there the laws of chemistry and pharmacy with 
which their own minds had been imbued. If any gentlemen chose to go to 
Victoria to see the College of Pharmacy, he felt sure they would be proud of 
its institution, and would feel that they had not come home to eulogise the 
