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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
of a chemist and druggist, and, on satisfactory evidence of competency being 
given by the applicant to the Board, a certificate shall be granted by the 
Board.” 
The first volume of the minutes of the society closes with the notes of a 
meeting held on 14th March, 1861, at which the report to be presented to the 
fourth annual meeting, on 21st March, was read and approved of. Of the 
report itself, or the history of the society during the next six months, we 
appear to have no formal record, the second volume of minutes, strange to 
say, opening with the notes of a meeting held on 6th December, 1861, and 
we are therefore compelled to rely almost entirely on the report read at 
the fifth annual meeting, on 21st March, 1862, for our history of the 
intervening period. 
From this we glean that Mr. Wragge had been elected president for the year, 
and that Mr. Lewis had succeeded Mr. Dunstone as treasurer. Early in the 
year the Council had signalised themselves by their prompt and vigorous opposition 
to an objectionable Begistration of Medical Practitioners Bill, and later on to a 
similar measure introduced by Dr. Macadam, who, however, on being appealed 
to, agreed to the introduction of a clause exempting chemists and druggists from 
its action. An intimation is given of the Council’s intention at an early date to 
issue to the members a certificate or diploma, which, it is added, “ although it at 
present may be thought to possess no intrinsic value, will at least serve to 
distinguish those gentlemen who are endeavouring to elevate the tone of pharmacy 
in Victoria.” 
At the fourth annual meeting it had been decided to restore the subscription 
to its original amount of two guineas, and the report, in somewhat lugubrious 
manner, records that as the Council had at the same time discontinued active 
canvass for members, “ leaving it to the body of chemists to subscribe voluntarily, 
the result had been a further falling off of the names on the roll. The balance- 
sheet reveals the fact that the total revenue of the year (1861-2) amounted to 
no more than £31 10s., consisting of the subscriptions of fifteen members, whose 
names will, under the circumstances, no doubt, prove of interest. They are given as 
follows : — Messrs. Irvine, Long, Ford. Mortensen, Blair, Wragge, Day, Dunstone, 
Lewis, Armstrong, Woodhouse, Kruse, Brooke, Johnston, Bosisto. But, small as 
was the revenue, the expenditure was kept within it, the total expenses actually 
chargeable to the year, including £7 10s. for “ one special volume of the 
Journal ,” being £9 3s. 6d. ; while a balance of £11 odd was carried forward 
to the credit of the succeeding year. 
Mr. Kingsland was elected to a vacant seat on the Council, and the following 
office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year (1862-3), viz. : — President, Mr. 
Wragge; vice-president, Mr. Day; treasurer, Mr. Lewis; hon. secretary, Mr. 
Bosisto, Mr. Kruse, who was unable, through indisposition, to continue to act 
in the latter capacity, being awarded a vote of thanks for the valuable services 
he had rendered to the society during his term of office. 
The first issue of the 1885 edition of the British Pharmacopoeia, comprising 
20,0C0 copies, having been exhausted, the edition has been reprinted from electro- 
type plates, and the opportunity has been taken to introduce the necessary 
corrections in the text. 
Conteaey to Dr. Koch’s theory, Drs. Buchner and Emmerich have found 
evidence, during their studies in Sicily, as to the origin of cholera; and are of 
opinion that the disease makes its way into the system through the lungs rather 
than through the alimentary canal. 
