THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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A discussion then took place as to the best method of promoting the 
interests of the chemists of New South Wales, and a committee was afterwards 
formed to deal with the matter. This and financial business brought the 
meeting to a close. 
REPOETS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE PHARMACY BOARD OF 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Apropos of the above, contradictory versions of which appeared in the last 
issues of the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy and the Chemist and Druggist , 
the following letters have been handed to us for publication : — 
Pharmacy Board, Melbourne, 6th September, 1886. 
Dear Sir, — Will you be good enough to inform me if the report appearing in the 
Chemist and Druggist of Australasia of my interview with the Pharmacy Board of 
New South Wales on the 3rd of August last is an official report furnished to that 
journal, with the sanction and approval of the Board, as a correct statement of what 
took place at the meeting. 
I shall also be glad if you will state in your reply if I did not call upon you at 
once on receipt of a copy of the resolution passed at the above meeting, and point out 
to yourself and Mr. Bozon its inaccuracy. — I am, yours truly, 
HARRY SHILLINGLAW, Registrar. 
W. T. Pinhey, Esq., Secretary Pharmacy Board of New South Wales, Sydney. 
Pharmacy Board of Victoria, Melbourne, September, 1886. 
To Messrs. Abraham, Larmer, Melhuish, M‘Carthy, and Sadler, of Sydney. 
Dear Sirs, — May I ask you kindly to state at the foot of this note if the attached 
report, which appeared in the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy for August last, is a 
correct record of what took place at the meeting held on the 3rd ult. — Yours faithfully, 
Yes.— William Larmer. HARRY SHILLINGLAW, Registrar. 
Yes. — Henry Sadler. 
Yes. — T. B. Melhuish. 
Yes. — William H. M‘Carthy. 
Yes. — John S. Abraham. 
Board of Pharmacy, 142 Phillip -street, Sydney, 11th September, 1886. 
My Dear Sir, — With reference to your letter of the 6th inst. asking whether the 
report appearing in the Chemist and Druggist of Australasia of your interview with 
the Pharmacy Board of this colony is an official one, and furnished with the sanction 
and approval of the Board, I beg to inform you that I am not in the habit of furnishing 
reports, official or otherwise, to the Chemist and Druggist of Australasia or any 
similar publication. 
As regards your second query, as to whether you called upon me on receipt of a 
copy of a resolution passed at the meeting on 3rd August last past, and then pointed out 
to Mr. Bozon and myself the inaccuracy of the resolution, I have to state that you did so 
call and point out what you term its inaccuracy, and I then showed to you the original 
resolution,* signed by the chairman, which agrees with the report published in the 
journal referred to. — With kind regards, I am, yours very truly, 
W. T. PINHEY. 
H. W. Shillinglaw, Esq. 
[* Wliat Mr. Pinhey terms “ the original resolution ” was a minute written by himself, and was not 
signed by the chairman during the meeting.— Ed. A.J.P . ] 
It is announced that a new variety of filter paper is being made in the 
United States, which exercises an antiseptic influence upon liquids passing 
through it. This is said to be effected by the addition of from 5 to 20 per 
cent, of animal charcoal to the paper pulp. 
At a meeting of the Societe Medicale d' Amiens, M. Lessenne indicated a certain 
sign of death, simple and trustworthy. After pricking the skin with a needle, 
the puncture remains open, just as when a piece of leather is pricked. On 
the living body, even if the blood does not come to the surface (as would 
happen if the person was hysterical), the pin-prick closes at once, and does 
not leave the slightest trace. 
