THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
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great pleasure in becoming an honorary member, and his thanks for the copies 
of the Journal sent to him. 
The growing evil of excessive competition was one of the first subjects to 
which the new council directed its attention, and at a special meeting, held on the 
13th June, it was decided to call a general meeting of the chemists and 
druggists in and about Melbourne to take into consideration the practicability of 
agreeing on some course of action, Messrs. Williams, Lewis, Wragge, and Thomas 
being, in the meantime, instructed to draw up a price list to be submitted for 
general adoption. A report of the meeting, which was attended by about 40 
gentlemen, is given in the Journal for July, from which it appears that a very 
harmonious feeling pervaded the discussions, and the list of prices submitted 
by the sub-committee having been read, it was, after a few trifling alterations and 
explanations, agreed to, conditionally that all the other members of the trade 
engaged in business in Melbourne and suburbs also subscribed. It was decided 
that deputations should be appointed to call upon all those not present at the 
meeting and obtain their adhesion ; and that should any change subsequently 
become necessary in the list, another meeting should be summoned to reconsider 
its details. With the view of enabling our readers to compare modern quotations 
with those current 27 years ago we give, in full, the schedule of prices which it 
was decided to adopt as “ the lowest charged retail” in the establishments of th# 
subscribers. 
Mixtures and Gargles: — 16oz., 5s.; 12oz., 4s.; 8oz., 3s.; 6oz., 2s. 6d. ; 4, 
3, and 2 oz., 2s. ; l^oz., Is. 6d. 
Lotions and Injections 16oz., 4s. ; 12oz., 3s. 6d. ; 8 and 6 oz., 2s. 6d. 
4oz., 2s. 
Pills 6, Is. ; 12, Is. 6d. ; 24, 2s. 6d. 
Liniments : — Under 4oz., Is. per oz. 
Draughts: — Each, Is. 6d. 
Powders : — 2, 6d. ; 3 or 4, Is. ; 6., Is. 6d. ; 12, 2s. 6d. 
Aperient Draught and Pills : — Each, Is. 6d. 
Howlands’ Preparations : — Macassar Oil, 3s. 6d size, 4s. ; ditto, 7s. size, 
10s. 6d ; Odonto, 3s. fid. ; Kalydor, 6s. 6d. 
Farinaceous Foods: — Is. size, Is. 6d. ; 2s. size, 3s 6d. 
Patents and Proprietary Medicines, &c. : — Is. size, 2s ; Is l|d. ditto, 2s ; Is. 6d. 
ditto, 2s 6d. ; Is. 9d. ditto, 3s. ; 2s. ditto, 3s. 6d. ; 2s. 6d. ditto, 4s. ; 2s. 9d. 
ditto, 4s.; 3s. 6d. ditto, 5s. ; 4s. fid. ditto, 7s.; Townsend’s sarsa, 7s.; Morrison’s 
pills, Is. 6d. ; Brandreth’s ditto, Is. 6d. ; Painkiller, Is. size, Is. 6d. ; Hockin’s 
seidlitz, 3s. 6d. ; pulv. seid., colonial, 2s. 
General : — Fol. senna, 6d. oz. ; Epsom salts, 2d. oz., or 3d. for 2oz. ; mag. 
carbon, 6d per oz. ; mag. calc, and mag. pond, Is. per oz. ; pulv. rhei., 2s. per 
oz. ; pot. bitart, 3d. per oz. ; soda carbon, 2d. per oz., or 3d. for 2oz. ; sem. 
lini., Is. per lb. ; pulv. lini., Is. per lb. ; p. acid tart., 3d. per oz. ; sp. asth. 
nit., Is. per oz. ; sp. ammon. co., Is. per oz. ; bals. copaib., Is. per oz ; 
tinctures, various, Is. per oz. ; ammon. carbon., Is. 6d. per lb. ; castor oil, 
4oz., Is. ; 6oz., Is. ; 12oz., 2s. ; 20oz., 3s. 6d. ; feeding bottles, 2s. ; large do., 
2s. 6d. ; teats, Is. each. 
The absurd hindrances to chemical research and manufactures which were 
at this period of our history offered by the Customs department of Victoria can 
scarcely be realised by the younger generation of pharmacists, and the following 
extract from an article on the subject in the Journal will therefore prove of 
interest. After pointing out how largely the success of a nation’s manufacture* 
depends upon the unrestrained culture of chemical science, the writer goes on 
to say : — 
