Vol. ii., No. 4, 
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iSiOTICE TO MEMBERS OP PHARMACEUTICAL 
SOCIETIES. 
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bou Australasia,” Normanby Chambers, Mel- 
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SITUATIONS, to publish them in our advertisement pages 
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We have now received a supply of copies of 
The AiiT OE this treatise reprinted from TiJ Chendte' and 
Pharmacy. DrucjgieU' Diary 1887. Full particulars as to 
1 puce, cfec., will be found on pagexvi of our 
advertisement sheets. ^ oc^vi. oi oui 
The aim of the resolution adopted at the Intercolonial Con- 
ference is to make the standards of the pharmaceutical edu- 
cation, in the Australasian colonies, uniform with each other, 
and with that of Great Britain. A few lines devoted to con- 
sidering to what extent this aim is practicable will not bo 
wasted. 
According to the Conference it is necessary that there 
should be uniformity of 
Preliminary education. 
Duration of apprenticeship. 
Course of study. 
Method of examination. 
Standard of examination. 
This is all logical and useful ; but two other things, perhaps 
more important than all the rest, are needful before uni- 
formity in standard can be really obtained. They are 
Uniformity in students. 
Uniformity in examiners. 
The same teacher, and the same examiner, pursuing ex- 
actly the samo course, with different men, will educe totally 
different results. The same man, with dilferent teachers, or 
different examiners, would become a a^ery different chemist. 
With these essential, inevitable weaknesses, in any scheme 
to secure uniformity of standard, what is the best course to 
pursue ? what will yield tlie best practical results ? The 
course of pharmaceutical education in the dih’erent colonies 
varies to a certain extent ; but not, probably, to a greater 
extent than individual students and examiners. In all cases, 
however, we have practical men deciding on the qualification 
of other men to hold a position of considerable responsibility. 
The article on the examination papers of the different colonies 
which is printed on a later page, is strong testimony 
that the standard is already practically the same in all 
colonies. The Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales 
has initiated a movement on the grounds of this practical 
uniformity ; and for the rea sons stated its action seems to be 
justifiable. We have virtually a regiment of students, who 
have been found to possess about tbe same practical know- 
ledge and skill ; but they are not dressed in the same uniform 
of apprenticeship, hooks studied, method of examination. 
Must they be dressed in that uniform before they can be ad- 
mitted into the eminently respectable society of Registered 
Chemists in other colonies ? or will they be received on equal 
footing as good fellows all ? 
THE INTERCOLONIAL PHARMACEUTICAL 
CONFERENCE. 
Information is gradually reaching us as to the cost of the 
Intercolonial Conference. In New South Wales and Victoria, 
the whole expense was borne by the Pharmaceutical Societies ; 
in New Zealand it was shared by the Pharmacy Board and 
dormant Pharmaceutical Society ; Queensland incurred virtu- 
ally no expense, as a resident in Melbourne was appointed 
its delegate. The Launceston Pharmaceutical Association 
