THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OR PHARMACY. 
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THE INTERCOLONIAL PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
To the Editor of the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy, 
Sib, — As mover of the resolution which was adopted by the Council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society inviting the various Australasian colonies to send delegates 
to Melbourne to discuss points on which it might be thought that uniformity of 
legislation and practice would be desirable in the interests of pharmacy, I am 
naturally anxious that the Conference (on which it most auspiciously appears all 
the invited colonies will be represented) should proceed harmoniously in its 
deliberations, and, further, that the trade throughout Australasia should accord 
its confidence to the delegates, and feel, not that any attempt is being made by one 
colony to aggrandise itself at the expense of the others, but that a bond fide 
effort is in progress to arrive at an understanding which shall be satisfactory to 
all by reason of its being based on a genuine desire to elevate, both educationally 
and commercially, the avocation in which we are engaged, rather than on the 
laws which happen to be in force in any one colony. 
Those persons who have read and considered the wording of the initial 
resolution itself, and of the invitation which has been addressed to the various 
bodies, as well as the references to the matter which have appeared from time 
to time in your journal, need, of course, be in no doubt on this point, and I 
should not have thought it necessary to say a word now had I thought that all 
had done so, but, as a leading article and letter have appeared during the past 
month (I charitably trust attributable to lack of information) either throwing 
cold water on the scheme, or suggesting that the only object of the Conference is 
to force Victorian views upon the other colonies, to the exclusion of any proposals 
which may emanate from their delegates, I beg the favour of the use of your 
large circulation throughout the colonies to place before any in whom heart- 
burnings might have been engendered by the perusal of these documents my personal 
disclaimer of any such motive in framing the resolution, and, further, to show 
that the inferences drawn are impossible of deduction from it, or from the 
invitation which was addressed by our society to the other colonies. This can 
scarcely be better done than by quoting the resolution, a copy of which was sent 
to each of the bodies invited to be represented: — 
“That in order to bring about uniformity in the educational qualification 
required of \ pharmaceutical chemists in the various Australasian colonies, 
and to promote reciprocity in the recognition of certificates, and, further, to 
discuss any matter that may be brought forward on which it is considered that 
joint legislation or action may be desirable, a Conference, consisting of 
delegates from each colony, be invited to assemble in Melbourne in the month 
of October, 1886; and that a draft syllabus of such subjects proposed to be 
submitted for discussion by the said Conference be forwarded to the various 
bodies expected to be represented, requesting each to intimate any additional 
matter which it may toish to include 
It will be seen by reference to the portion italicised that each colony was 
expressly invited to add to the programme anything which might suggest 
itself, and this invitation was emphasised in the form of invitation, as follows: — 
“ I am therefore to ask you to submit the proposition to the members of your 
Council, for their deliberation and suggestion, and to return to me their views 
on the subject, with any other matter you may wish included , not later than 
the 30th June next, together with names of the delegates, when the final 
programme will be issued.” These quotations will show that the subjects 
