THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL 0* PHARMACY. 
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Order of Business. 
The following business was set down for the first day : — 
First [Resolution — That a uniform system of education throughout Australasia 
is desirable, such system to embrace : — 
(a) Preliminary examination, to include the same subjects as required by the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. 
(b) Apprenticeship of four years. 
(c) Course of study, based upon the course adopted by the Pharmaceutical 
Society of Great Britain. 
(d) Examinations to be conducted by examiners appointed by boards, councils 9 
or governing body. 
1. The mode of conducting examinations to be both written and 
oral in every subject. 
2. The subjects of examinations to embrace : — 
Botany To be conducted, as far as 
__ . .. I practicable, in conformity 
Materia medica r w ith the practice in Great 
Chemistry and practical chemistry j Britain. 
Practical pharmacy - - As conducted in Victoria. 
The System of Education. 
Mr. Blackett moved the first resolution. He said he recognised the honour 
of bringing before the first Conference so important a resolution. It did not 
require a long speech to impress the delegates with its importance, because it 
was generally known that the future of pharmacy in Australasia depended very 
much upon the lines adopted for a uniform system of education, and it would 
be the means of surmounting every difficulty that now stood in the way. They 
wanted to feel that, from whatever part of Australasia a pharmacist came, he 
would be received in a spirit of brotherhood, so to speak, belonging to a large 
influential body united in every possible respect. In going over the curriculum 
and examination papers he found that all the colonies were following as closely 
as they could on the lines of the parent country. In Victoria the examination 
was practically the same as that of Great Britain. By an order of the 
Governor-in-Council they had now the power of adding Virgil’s iEneid, which 
was in the examination of Great Britain. Candidates were not expected to be 
great linguists, but still it was the general desire that the pharmacist of the 
future should be a man of culture, with a liberal education, fitted to enter the 
ranks of a highly important and scientific calling. He would like to see the 
matriculation examination made a sine qua non. 
Mr. Potts seconded the motion, which was carried nem. con. 
Mr. Blackett then moved clause — 
(a) “ Preliminary examination, to include the same subjects as required by 
the Pharmaceutical Society “of Great Britain.” 
Mr. Mayne seconded. 
Mr. Pond moved as an amendment, and Mr. Potts seconded — 
“ That a preliminary examination, to include the same subjects as required 
by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, be passed prior to apprentice- 
ship, but if the candidate produces and lodges with the registrar a certificate 
that he has, at the matriculation examination by some university, college, or 
school recognised by the Board, passed in the above or corresponding subjects, he 
shall not be required to pass this examination.” 
Mr. Blackett said he accepted the amendment because it was formulating 
what had already been attained in Victoria. The important point was exami- 
nation prior to apprenticeship, similar to the medical and legal professions. 
