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BUGCtIST of austealasia. 
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which the present is the first issue, is to be entirely devoted 
to the interests of pharmacy and the drug trade, and circu- 
lated exclusively, in Australasia. Originating from no single 
colony, but having close connections with all, we believe that 
our journal has a wide field. Usefulness to its readers is the 
very breath of its life. To discover, and, if possible, antici- 
pate every need of the pharmacist, that comes within its 
scope, is its only road to success. This also is its only pro- 
gramme, which we shall Si)are no effort to carry out to the 
full. 
We submit our first number to the judgement of our 
readers, more conscious than they can possibly be of its 
numerous defects, but at the same time confident that no such 
collection of news of events affecting pharmacy and the drug 
trade has ever before been presented to Australasian 
pharmacists. 
We would call special attention to the extensive and costly 
report of the London drug market telegraphed to us on BOth 
December. The remarkable change that has come over the 
conditions of business in the drug trade of these colonies 
during the last ten years will make this report of special 
value to many of our readers, and of great interest to all. 
Our rejDorts of the proceedings of the various Pharmaceu- 
tical Societies and Pharmacy Boards, in some cases official, 
show what is going on in the centres of pharmaceutical 
education. 
Our leading articles on the Pharmacy Act Amendment 
Act, on cholera and water filtration, on Professor Redwood, 
&c., deal with topics closely affecting the interests of the trade. 
SPECIAL NOTE. — Subscribers commencing their year with the issues 
for January or February, 1886, not be required to pay tlieir subscrip- 
tions until June, 1886 ; before which date a reminder wll be sent to 
them. All subscriptions commencing after Februaiy must be paid 
strictly in advance. 
To secure “ The Chemists’ and Druggists’ Diary” for any year the 
subscription must commence with the previous December issue. 
Complaints of Non-Delivery of the Journals should be Ad- 
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^ntroLiuttorn. 
OURSELVES. 
We make our editorial bow to our readers, not entirely as a 
stranger, but as the ofl’shoot of a vigorous organisation, 
which has long been well and favorably known to most 
of them. “ The Chemist and Druggist,” if not actually the 
eldest, is second in the large and increasing family of special 
trade journals. It has been in existence for more than a 
quarter of a century. It has circulated in every land where 
English is spoken or read. By supplements in the Spanish 
language it has also had extensive circulations in those large 
districts where that is the business language of the people. Its 
appreciation of the needs and interests of the pharmacist and 
druggist, and its success in meeting all demands these make, 
have rendered it an indispensable companion to nearly every 
intelligent and active man of business in this vocation. 
During a longer or shorter period “The Chemist and 
Druggist” has been officially connected with every Pharma- 
ceutical Society in Australasia. It is still supplied officially 
to every member of the Pharmaceutical Societies of New 
South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. Its connec- 
tion with the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand termi- 
nated only with the dissolution of the Society. The history 
of its relations with the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria, 
now known as the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia, is 
given on another page. 
A large scheme for increasing the influence and value of 
their journal has long been under the consideration of the 
proprietors. They have decided that from the month of 
April the journal shall appear bi-monthly, in order that it may 
supply prompter and fuller information of the fortnightly 
London drug sales. An office is to be opened in New 
York, if not already in existence, to facilitate the large and 
increasing business with the drug trade of the United 
States. 
And last, but not least, we have established ourselves in 
Australasia. “ The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia,” of 
Our legal reports comprise nearly every case in any way 
affecting druggists that has occurred during the past month. 
Our lists of patents and of trade marks applied for, supi^ly 
information that may on occasion be of the greatest value to 
our readers, while in its usual sources of i)ublication it is 
almost inaccessible. 
The articles on legislation affecting pharmacists in 1885, 
and on other subjects, speak for themselves, as do the Ex- 
change Column, the Personalities, &c. 
The Reviews will deal with works of interest to pharma- 
cists issued in the colonies. 
Our columns for con’espondence are open for the freest 
expression of opinion on all subjects pharmaceutical. We do 
not accept responsibility for any opinion published therein. 
We only require that the name and address of the writer 
should be supiilied to us in confidence, as a guarantee of good 
faith. In this column we shall be pleased to answer any 
enquiries for formulae, processes, legal and other information 
of all kinds, that may be addressed to us. We do not claim 
omniscience, but we have a library much larger than falls to 
the lot of the average pharmacist, and we have much expe- 
rience in ferreting out the answers to queries of the most 
varied character. 
The Students’ Corner should prove as useful to the rising 
generation of pharmacists in the colonies as it has proved at 
home. 
The Scientific and Practical Notes and Formulfe are 
intended to supplement the information given in the parent 
journal. 
We call attention finally to the very liberal terms on which 
we are prepared to supply “The Chemist and Druggist,” “The 
Chemist and Druggist of Australasia” and “The Chemists’ 
AND Druggists’ Diary.” Although the parent journal during 
nine months of this year will be bi-monthly, and although we 
publish, in addition to it, this special journal for Australasia,, 
we make no increase in the subscription. It will remain at 
ten shillings per annum, for which sum we deliver, postage 
paid, to any part of these colonies, all the issues of the parent 
journal, of “ The Chemist and Druggist of Australasia” and 
The Chemists’ and Druggists’ Diary. We therefore con- 
fidently anticipate that all our readers, who are not already 
entitled to our publications, by reason of their connection 
with one or other of the Societies,’ will fill up and forward to 
us the subscription circular which accompanies this issue. 
To Members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia 
we beg to announce that the contract between their Society 
and the proprietors of “ The Chemist and Druggist” has been 
terminated by the action of the Society. They will conse- 
quently not receive “ THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST” as 
heretofore after the last issue for the year 1885. The number 
for January, 1886, will be sent them in the expectation that, 
before it is received, most of them will have subscribed through 
this oflice. 
