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Professor Allen, replying to tlie toast, remarked that all medical men 
would, he felt sure, congratulate the pharmacists in the initiation of the confer- 
ence, and the work they were engaged in performing. For his own part, he 
was exceedingly gratified to find that they were determined to reach and 
maintain the very highest standard. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the rela- 
tions between the medical profession and the pharmacist, there were, certainly, 
little differences at times, but they were only storms in tea cups — matrimonial 
storms. (Laughter.) In connection with the uniform system of education 
proposed they could rely upon having the medical profession entirely with 
them in the good work. It was impossible for them to get any teaching 
in the Medical School approaching the training of the Pharmaceutical Society, 
and the medical profession were all the more pleased to find the adoption 
of a perfect system of education, as it would be the means of inducing the 
medical students to take advantage of it. There were regulations shortly 
coming from the senate of the University which, it was hoped, would attain 
that desirable purpose, and every medical student would then have to pass 
through the School of Pharmacy, and the new laboratory would probably be 
offered to them to carry on independent scientific research. He considered it 
would be to the future interests of the two professions if tbeir new pro- 
fessors — Jackson and Masson — were given ample scope to develop their respective 
courses of education. (Applause.) 
Dr. Jamieson, replying to the toast, remarked that in no part of the 
world he had been through were the relations between the physician and 
pharmacist better than in Melbourne. (Applause.) He congratulated the 
Conference on its ambitious educational undertaking, and expressed himself 
hopeful of seeing the mutual policy propounded made fully effective throughout 
Australasia. (Applause.) 
Dr. Willmott also replied, prefacing his little speech with the remark that 
he did not think the pharmacists were really so fond of doctors as to be able to 
tolerate three of them in one short evening. He expressed his warmest thanks 
for the invitation to the banquet, and heartily congratulated the pharmacists upon 
the success of the first day's sitting of the Conference. He agreed with Professor 
Allen that pharmacy was not best taught medical men in the medical schools. 
Mr. B. C. Harriman proposed the toast of “ Science, Art, and Letters,” 
coupled with the names of Baron Yon Mueller and Professor Kernot, in an 
appropriate speech. 
Baron Sir Ferd. Yon Mueller, in replying to the toast, said he thought the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia was adding a deal towards the progress 
of science, and he trusted the high standard adopted would be rigidly maintained. 
Professor Kernot returned his most sincere thanks for the honour done him, 
and likewise complimented the society upon the inauguration of the conference. 
Mr. Alfred H. Jackson, Director of the College of Pharmacy, in 
replying, said he had only that moment heard he was required to say a few 
words in response to the toast, and it was presumably because that pharmacy 
was based upon a knowledge of the Sciences of chemistry and botany— that it 
was within the province of an Art— even Professor Kernot could testify from his 
early study of pill machinery — and that a knowledge of Letters was needed by 
the pharmacist was only too palpable when the unfortunate dispenser had to 
decipher the well-nigh cuneiform hieroglyphics of some illegible prescription. 
There were two sources of exhaustion that had not been mentioned by the 
president of the Royal Society — viz., time and patience; hence the briefness 
of his speech at that late hour. He had to thank the Dean of the 
medical faculty of the University of Melbourne for his kind references, 
