THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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Associates. 
Mr. M‘Xnight (Collingwood), Messrs. Dyson, Pardy, Ewing (Geelong), 
Messrs. Jas. Pendlebury, Hy. Dawson, F. W. Southwood, A. Marshall, H. C. 
Rose, Jas. Crossley, Jas. Heffernan, W. N. Rolfe, Chas. Curtis, Jno. Williams, 
Andrew Miller (Melbourne), Mr. Wm. Barratt (Melbourne, IN’.), Mr. Roebuck 
(Richmond), Messrs. Ledward, A. W. Finch (St. Hilda.) 
An endeavour was made to institute a monthly series of pharmaceutical 
meetings of members and associates (with a recess during the heat of summer), 
and the first of these was held on 2nd October, 1857, Mr. C. R. Blackett being in 
the chair, when the vice-president (Mr. Bosisto) delivered the introductory 
address, in which he dealt at length upon the botany and mineralogy of the 
colony, concluding with a really eloquent peroration upon scientific pharmacy 
and the aims of the society. 
The first annual meeting of the society was held at the Commercial 
Chambers, Swanston-street, and the report of the council presented upon that 
occasion rehearses the doings of the society’s first year of existence : — 
“ It is with pleasure your council lay before you their first Annual Report. 
You are all aware of the causes which called the society into existence, and they 
were fully discussed at the general meeting of the chemists and druggists, when 
the formation of the Pharmaceutical Society was determined on, at which meeting 
the laws and constitution of the society were agreed to, and the council was 
also elected. 
“ At the first meeting of the council Mr. Frederick Cooper was elected 
president, Mr. Bosisto vice-president, Mr. Croad treasurer, and Mr. Williams 
hon. secretary. The body of chemists throughout Victoria was appealed to, and 
it is with sincere gratification your council announce that 89 names were sent 
in with their subscription as members, and 18 associates. 
“ As soon as the society was established your council communicated the 
fact to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and solicited their assistance 
and co-operation. 
“Your council took active measures to prevent the very objectionable 
Poisons Bill, introduced by Dr. Tierney, passing the Legislative Assembly, and, 
are happy to say, with success ; and they hope on an early occasion to bring 
before your notice a bill on the subject which, while it will aim at affording 
the public as much safety as can be done by Act of Parliament, will not be so 
oppressively stringent as the one before alluded to. 
“ Your council felt that it would be very desirable to establish a monthly 
lecture on pharmaceutical, chemical, and scientific subjects, and accordingly, in 
October last, your vice-president delivered an opening lecture. Arrangements 
have been made to continue these lectures regularly during the year we have 
now entered upon. Your council trust the members will second their endeavours 
in carrying out this very important means of improvement. 
“ As the Excise laws relative to the introduction of aether and its prepara- 
tions were very undefined, and caused considerable trouble and annoyance to 
chemists and druggists importing the same, your council formed a deputation 
and waited on the Honourable the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, who, 
after receiving [them very courteously, and listening to the facts, was pleased to 
order that sether and its preparations, and also chemical preparations of opium 
(such as morphia), should be admitted duty free. 
“ Your council found it necessary to appoint a paid secretary to the society, 
as Mr. Williams, the honorary secretary, found the duties interfere too much 
with his private affairs, and resigned. Mr. J. Lewis was appointed to that 
office, with an allowance of £'25 per annum. 
