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THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST. 97} 
INDEX TO LITERARY CONTE 
PAGE 
Leading Article— Exchange of Certifi- 
cates 97 
The Month 98 
Meeting— Pharmaceutical Society of Vic- 
.! toria 99 
School of Mines— Ballarat 99 
Country Druggists 100 
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The Russian Jewish Relief Fund 100 
Occurrence of Bassora-Gum in Cycadete 100 
Chinese Method of Manufacturing Ver- 
milion 100 
Correspondence 101 
Poisonous Cases 101 
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Fires 102 
Reminiscences of a Pharmacist 102 
Economy of Fuel, and Smoke Abatement . . 103 
Notes and Abstracts 104 
Impure Water 104 
Rules for the Care of the Eyes 104 
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EXCHANGE OF CERTIFICATES. 
Last July the council of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Victoria decided by a resolution to communicate with the 
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain with reference 
to the question of the exchange of certificates of registra- 
tion and qualification as 6 1 pharmaceutical chemists.” 
The reply of the secretary (Mr. Bremridge) has been 
received, to the effect that the council has considered 
the matter, and find u that there are no statutory provi- 
sions under the Pharmacy Acts of Great Britain empower- 
ing the registrar to place any name on the register 
except on the production of certificates of skill and com- 
petency, signed by the respective boards of examiners 
appointed by the council of the society, and approved by 
the Privy Council.” Undoubtedly this was correct 
enough, and was perfectly well known by the council of 
the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria ; but the object 
and intention on our part was to see if the pharmaceutical 
authorities of the mother-country were disposed to take 
steps to enable, under proper conditions, our Pharmacy 
Board to exchange certificates. It is well known also to 
us whose term of apprenticeship in England dated at a 
time anterior to any Pharmacy Act in England, and whose 
period of pupilage even expired before that legisla- 
tive measure was placed upon the English statute-book, 
that the highly accomplished and most scientifically 
educated French or German pharmacist, whose education 
is infinitely superior and more extensive than the English 
pharmaceutical chemists can pretend to be, cannot ex- 
change or reciprocate certificates, but must, forsooth, 
submit to be examined by those, able as they are, who 
would not presume to consider themselves their superiors. 
When the Pharmacy Act in England was passed, thousands 
of persons in business at the time were registered, and we 
in Victoria were in justice compelled to follow the same 
precedent. The desire of the Pharmacy Board of Vic- 
toria is, and has always been, to make the standard of 
education as high as in the mother-country, and we think 
that at the present time we have fairly realised that 
object. In the last numbers of the Pharmaceutical 
Journal, in an article upon “ Pharmaceutical Registers,” 
attention is drawn to our recent proposal for the con- 
sideration of the question of the exchange of certificates, 
from which we make the following extract : — 
The opportunity may also be taken to refer to still another 
Pharmacy register, that of the colony of Victoria, issued by 
the Pharmacy Board constituted under the Act passed in 
December, 1876. This register, which, like the Irish register, 
recognises only one qualification, that of “ pharmaceutical 
chemist,” contains 623 names, and as a proposal has recently 
been put forward for reciprocity in the recognition of the 
qualifications granted in the colony and this country it may be 
of interest to devote a few lines to the analysis of this list. It 
would appear that of the 623 persons now registered as 
“ pharmaceutical chemists” under the Victoria Act only three 
have become qualified by having passed the “ major” examina- 
tion of the Victoria Board ; 540 have been registered without 
examination, in virtue of having, before the passing of the Act, 
either for not less than two months carried on the business of 
a chemist and druggist or homoeopathic chemist in keeping open 
shop for the dispensing of prescriptions, or having been em- 
ployed for not less than three months as dispensing assistants 
in such shops, or for not less than three years as dispensing 
chemists in hospitals or other public institutions. Another 44 
became qualified through having passed a “ modified” exami- 
nation provided for persons who have served an apprenticeship 
of not less than three years that commenced prior to the 
passing of the Act. Of the remainder, 34 are registered in 
virtue of qualifications under the British Act and two in virtue of 
German qualifications. It is only right to state, however, that 
