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THE PHAEMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OP AUSTEALASIA. — ITS BIETH 
AND PEOGEESS. 
No. II. 
Our first instalment brought our history down to the formal inauguration of the 
society, and the appointment of a provisional committee for the revision of the 
rules and regulations which had been proposed for the government of the 
association. It cannot but be noted with interest how thoroughly the pioneers 
of pharmacy were informed of the requirements of the profession even in the 
remote times of which we speak ; and it must be highly gratifying to those of 
them who are still with us to witness in our own day the almost perfect realisa- 
tion of the aspirations of 1857. 
Mr. F. Cooper having generously placed a room at their disposal, the com- 
mittee zealously applied themselves to their duties, one of their firstly-recorded 
proceedings being the appointment of Mr. Williams as hon. secretary, the 
selection of Mr. S. J. T. Croad for the post of treasurer, and of the Colonial 
Bank of Australasia as the repository of the society’s funds. On 9th April, 
1857, the work of revision had been successfully accomplished, and it was 
decided that 200 copies of the Eules and Eegulations should be printed ; 
that a copy should be sent to “every druggist in the colony;” and that a 
public meeting of the members should be called for the purpose of adopting 
the Eules and electing the council. In order that the profession should not 
lack instruction concerning the importance of the steps then in progress for its 
benefit, the following gentlemen were appointed local secretaries H. A. Berger 
(Ballarat), G. W. Glass (Castlemaine), E. Garsed (Sandhurst), G. Page (Dunolly), 
W. Archer (Geelong), M. F. Ogle (Maryborough), W. Goodshaw (Avoca), W. H. 
Neuber (Beech worth). The general meeting duly took place on 20th May, 1857, 
in the Melbourne Mechanics’ Institute (now the Athenasum), under the presidency 
of Mr. F. Cooper, when the rules were adopted, and the first council of the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria was duly elected: — Messrs. Eobert Glover 
(Melbourne), George Lewis (Melbourne), William Ford (Melbourne), Jno. T. 
Thomas (Geelong), W. Johnson (St. Hilda), G. H. Williams (Melbourne), 
C. E. Blackett (Fitzroy), S. J. T. Croad (Melbourne), J. Bosisto (Eichmond), J, 
Erase (Melbourne), F. Cooper (Melbourne), and W. Archer (Geelong). Messrs. 
Bowen and Walton were elected auditors. A vote of thanks to Messrs. Cooper, 
Croad, and Williams for their exertions on behalf of the society brought this 
historically-important meeting to a close. 
Animated with enthusiasm in the cause of pharmaceutical progress, the 
newly-elected council set vigorously to work to establish the infant society on 
a firm and substantial basis, and to carry out the more immediate objects for 
which it had been called into existence. 
