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Visiting Intercolonial Council, which, we trust to see carried into effect at an 
■early date. 
As we anticipated would be the case, the fifth and last resolution on the 
programme, condemnatory of proprietary medicines and secret nostrums, was 
adopted without dissent, but there was a regretable absence of practical 
suggestions as to the best means of achieving the desired end. 
In a future issue we shall have more to say upon the bearings of the 
various resolutions adopted. So far, our hopes of the Conference have been 
more than realised ; but we do not blind ourselves to the fact that there remain 
many obstacles in the way of the desired consummation still to be removed, and 
that in any case its accomplishment will necessarily be a work of time. But 
pharmacists are now fairly committed to the task, and we have every confidence 
as to the final results. For ourselves, we shall, as hitherto, ardently advocate 
every means by which pharmaceutical uniformity and federation can be hastened, 
and we cordially invite pharmacists of every colony to utilise our pages in 
furthering • the good work. 
THE PRELIMINABY EXAMINATION. 
The following notice appeared in the Government Gazette of the 29th ult : — 
“The Pharmacy Act 1876.” 
Whereas by Tke Pharmacy Act 1876 the Board is empowered from time 
to time to make, alter, or rescind regulations for the purpose of carrying the 
said Act into effect: And whereas, in pursuance of the said power, the Board 
made certain regulations, which were duly confirmed on the 22nd day of October, 
1877, in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, by the Governor-in-Council, 
and published in the Government Gazette of the 26th day of October, 1877 : 
And whereas it is expedient to supplement the list of text- books named in Clause 
61 of the said regulations ; it is ordered by the said Board that 
Virgil, 2Eneid, Book I., 
be added to the list of text-books on which applicants for registration as 
Pharmaceutical Chemists shall be examined by the Pharmacy Board of Victoria. 
ALFEED DEAKIN, Chief Secretary. 
Chief Secretary’s Office, Melbourne. 
Approved by the Governor-in-Council the 11th October, 1886 — Bob. Wads- 
worth, Clerk of the Executive Council. 
An epidemic of diphtheric sore throat, which recently attacked 200 persons 
at Canterbury, England, was attributed by the local medical officer to drinking 
contaminated milk. 
The British and Colonial Druggist has the following: — “The Chemist and 
the Inspector. — In a chemist’s shop just outside this city (Manchester) a 
curious sight might have been witnessed a short time since. The chemist was 
seen rushing frantically round his counter pursued by a man six feet high, and 
weighing about 16 stone ; neither murder nor robbery was the intent of the 
pursuer ; he was simply the inspector under the Adulteration Act, and had 
asked for white wine vinegar, which was supplied to him in a bottle by the 
proprietor. Upon the inspector stating he purchased the sample for analysis, 
the chemist snatched up the bottle and proceeded with all haste to the sink to 
empty it ; hence the hurry of both pursuer and pursued. The chemist was in time 
to throw most of it away, but what little the inspector saved turned out to be 
more like acid acet. dil. than anything else. 
