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THE AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
Prosecutions. 
The Registrar reported the prosecution of W. F. Reynolds for a breach of the 3rd section of 
the Sale and Use of Poisons Act, the defendant being fined £10 and £6 6s. costs. A number 
of other cases for prosecution were submitted to the board and dealt with. 
Correspondence and financial business brought the meeting to a close. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA. 
The monthly meeting of the council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia was held at 
the College of Pharmacy, Swanston-street, on Friday, the 5th June. 
Present — Messrs. Bowen, Brinsmead, Huntsman, Harrison, Hooper, Kingsland, Tompsitt, 
Baker, Lacey, Gamble, and Shillinglaw. 
The president (Mr. Wm. Bowen) in the chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
Election of New Members. 
The following persons, having complied with the necessary forms of application for member- 
ship, were balloted for and duly elected : — 
Alexander B. Heron, Townsville, Queensland. 
D. C. T. Watkins, 10 Bourke-street, Melbourne. 
Jason Couve, Dandenong. 
R. Bloomfield Rees, Eaglehawk. 
Several applications were postponed, the declarations which must accompany each appli- 
cation not being made before a magistrate. 
Appointment of Vice-President and Member of Council. 
A ballot for the office of vice-president for the ensuing year resulted in the election of 
Mr. James Brinsmead; and Mr. C. R. Blackett was unanimously elected a member of the council, 
vice Mr. A. T. Best, resigned. 
The Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference. 
The hon. secretary read the communication from the Pharmaceutical Society of New 
South Wales inviting the attendance of two members of the council at the Conference to be held 
in Sydney on the 16th and 17th September next. 
Mr. Bowen expressed his approval at the prospect of the Conference at last being held, and 
invited the members of the council to discuss the matter. 
Mr. Tompsitt said he thought the importance of the Conference could not be overrated. He 
trusted to see the meeting a thoroughly representative one. He would like to see the subjects to 
be dealt with at the Conference formulated by each colony and fully discussed before being 
submitted. This would save a deal of time at the meeting, and would also enable a programme 
to be published. 
Mr. Brinsmead desired to know if any platform had been laid down by the society inviting 
the Conference, and whether the subjects to be discussed would be narrowed down to business issues. 
Messrs. Huntsman, Baker, and Kingsland, while giving their hearty support to the proposition, 
would like each colony to prepare its own suggestions, which could then be published in the 
Journal. 
Mr. Harrison considered that it would be of great importance that "the colonies where no 
pharmaceutical organisation existed should be represented. It would strengthen their hands on 
their return from the Conference to ask that they should be placed on the same footing as the 
other colonies where pharmaceutical enactments existed. 
After some further discussion it was resolved that a reply be forwarded to the Pharmaceutical 
Society of New South Wales, stating that the council of this society will have great pleasure in 
sending delegates to the proposed Intercolonial Conference to be held at Sydney, provided that all 
the colonies, including New Zealand, South Australia, and Tasmania, are represented, and that 
the principal matter to be submitted by Victoria for the consideration of the Conference will be 
the desirability of uniformity in pharmaceutical education for all the colonies. 
Correspondence. 
A letter was read from Mr. Huntsman withdrawing his resignation as a member of the 
council. A communication was also read from Mr. Sidney Plowman, London, conveying to the 
council his full appreciation of the distinguished honour conferred upon him in electing him an 
honorary member of the society. 
A vote of thanks to Mr. A. C. Lewis and the match committee of the recent cricket match 
for their donation to the Benevolent Fund was carried unanimously. 
Financial and general business brought the meeting to a close. 
Detection of Copper and Lead in Wine. — Hager recommends mixing the suspected wine with 
J or ^ volume of clear liquor sodie when the mixture should remain clear even if boiled ; a 
coloured turbidity would indicate the probable presence of copper. Put 6 cc. of the clear mixture 
in a test-tube and introduce a piece of tin foil, which should be entirely covered by the liquid; 
warm in a water-bath for about \ or 1 hour. If the wine be free from lead and copper, the tin 
foil will remain glossy ; slight traces of these metals cause the tin foil to lose its lustre, and to 
become grayish; in the presence of more than traces of these metals the tin foil will become dark 
gray to dark grayish black (lead) ; dark steel coloured, brown or brownish black (copper). Boiling 
will accelerate the action. Presence of zinc or arsenic will not interfere with the above reaction. — 
Fh, Centralhalle , No. 8, 1885. 
