THE AUSTRALASIAN 
journal tr£ 
No. 11.] NOVEMBER, 1886. [Vol. I. 
THE INTERCOLONIAL PHARMACEUTICAL 
CONFERENCE. 
First Day. — Wednesday, 27th October. 
The delegates appointed to attend the first Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference 
assembled at the Pharmaceutical Society’s Hall, Swanston- street, Melbourne, at 10 
o’clock on Wednesday, the 27th of October, the respective colonies being 
represented as follows : — 
Hew South Wales.. 
New Zealand 
Queensland 
South Australia 
Tasmania ... 
Victoria ... 
Messrs. J. Mayne, T. B. Melhuish, and B. F. Bozon. 
„ J. A. Pond and G. Bonnington. 
Mr. H. W. Potts. 
Messrs. L. It. Scammell and W. H. Sowter. 
„ L. Fairthorne and E. It. Ash. 
„ C. It. Blackett and Thomas Huntsman. 
The proceedings were opened by Mr. Blackett, who, on behalf of the Pharmacy 
Board of Victoria and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia, read the 
following 
Address of Welcome. 
Honoured and Esteemed Colleagues,— On behalf of the Pharmacy Board 
and Pharmaceutical Society and the pharmacists of this colony, I tender you the 
heartiest and warmest welcome on the occasion of the meeting of this the 
first Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference. 
Personally unknown as most of us are to each other, we are all animated 
by the same desire for the advancement and welfare of pharmacy. 
As at the present time all the colonies, with the exception of South Australia, 
have obtained legislation to regulate the practice of our art and the sale of poisons, 
it is admitted generally that some discussion should take place with reference 
to the future, in order that some agreement should, if possible, be arrived at as 
to the bases of further legislation in the respective colonies, so that, if attainable, 
the same laws and regulations affecting pharmacy and the education of pharmacists 
may prevail throughout this rapidly developing continent, thus assisting to bring 
about a good and cordial understanding among us, living — as we rejoice to know — 
under the same Crown and enjoying the same privileges as members of the British 
Empire ; that the artificial barriers which legislators have, unfortunately, 
established between the various colonies shall not, as far as pharmacy is concerned, 
obtain, but that in the future an Australian pharmacist in all the colonies will 
enjoy the same system of education, live under the same or similar legal sanctions 
and encouragement from the State. 
