VoL, ii„ No. 4. 
THE CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST OF AUSTRALASIA. 
101 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL 
SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA. 
The Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Australasia was held at the College of Pharmacy, Melbourne, 
on the evening of March 9, when there were present : 
Messrs. C. R. Blackett, F.C.S., Henry Briiid, H. T. Tompsitt, 
Thomas Huntsman, C. A. Atkin, G. Kingsland, G. F, Turner, 
C. Pleasance, R. H.‘Rugg, H. W. Potts, A. J. 0^^-en, — Hicks, 
H. Fiancis, E. G. Owen, H. Gamble, — Strutt, G. B. Turner, 
and H. Shillinglaw. 
Mr. Tompsitt thereupon suggested that Messrs. Fripp and 
Flint, the book-keepers respectively connected with the firms 
of Felton, Grimwade and Co. and Rocke, Tompsitt and Co., 
be appointed. The motion was seconded by Mr. Blind, and 
carried nem. con. 
Mr. Pleasance and Mr. Potts returned thanks for their 
election to the Council. 
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA. 
Thirtieth Annual Report of the Council, 1886. 
In the absence of the President (Mr. William Bowen), Mr. 
C. R. Blackett was voted to the chair. 
The Hon. Secretary announced that the Returning Officer 
had reported that Messrs. A. Andrews, C. Harrison, Charles 
Pleasance, and H. W. Potts had been nominated to the va- 
cancies on the Council caused by the retirement of Messrs. 
Brinsmead, Hooper, Harrison, and Kingsland, and that, there 
being no excess of the nominations required, the gentlemen 
named had been duly elected. 
Mr. Pleasance, adverting to the valuation of the Austral- 
asian Journal of PJiamiacij (£2,000), premised that the esti- 
mation had reference to the proposal to purchase it by a 
certain firm. He thought that the valuation was excessive. 
The hon. secretary stated that this price had been fixed so 
long as^ two years ago, and he thought that a publication 
which, in the first year of its indej)endent existence, showed 
a profit of £200, was not overrated at the amount quoted. 
Mr. Huntsman explained that a committee, specially ap- 
pointed to thoroughly investigate the matter, had arrived at 
the value stated, that investigation, as had been suggested 
by Mr. Pleasance, having been undertaken with special refer- 
ence to an offer which had been submitted for the purchase of 
the property at that time ; and this amount was not con- 
sidered to represent the copyright, but merely a five years’ 
rental, with certain restrictions. 
The report and balance-sheet were then received and 
adopted. 
Mr. Blackett, apologising for Mr. Bowen’s unavoidable ab- 
sence, considered that the Society was to be heartily congra- 
tulated upon the success with which its labours of the past 
year had been crowned, and he had every hope that the good 
and important work of raising the status of pharmacy would 
be happily continued. The success of the Journal was a 
matter for great congratulation, since it was now the recog- 
nised authority in the colonies upon the matters of which it 
treated, and its articles were quoted in the English, American, 
and Continental Press. 
The hon. secretary read a brief sketch showing the progress 
of the Society as regards its membership and finances dated 
from 1877 
Year. 
Members, 
Income. 
Year 
Members. 
1877 
146 
£181 3 0 
1882 
262 
1878 
198 
239 2 0 
1883 
274 
1879 
223 
456 11 5 
1884 
298 
1880 
244 
459 13 7 
1885 
327 
1881 
250 
491 13 0 
1886 
392 
Mr. 
Blackett, 
referring to the successful est 
Income. 
£589 10 6 
620 8 0 
958 7 0 
1,428 8 0 
1,883 15 0 
tional accommodation for the students would shortly press 
itself upon the attention of the Council, and believed that the 
claim to an increase upon the present grant might be profit- 
ably urged upon the attention of the Government, having 
regard to this necessity. 
Mr. G. B. Turner, one of the pharmaceutical students at- 
tending the College, was then presented with the prize, the 
annual gift of the president. 
The recipient appropriately responded, while expressing 
regret that, through the misapprehension of a rule, he had 
been debarred froin competing for the Society’s gold medal, 
Mr. Turner paid tribute to the excellence of the instruction 
iinparted in the College, but regretted that the students as a 
body were very imperfectly acquainted with the fact that the 
College offered such facilities and advantages to them, and 
suggested that some means should be taken to better advertise 
the institution. 
A wish was expressed that Mr, C. A. Atkin and Win. 
' Hodgkiss would continue to fill the positions of auditors ; but 
Mr. Atkin, for himself and coadjutor, regretted to have to 
i decline, 
The Council have pleasure in submitting a very satisfactory 
report of the past year’s transactions. 
The election of four members of the Council, caused by the 
retirement of Messrs. Bowen, Tompsitt, Lacey, and J. C. 
Jones, took place on the day fixed for the annual meeting 
(10th March, 1886). Six candidates were nominated, and, 
upon a poll being taken, Messrs. H. T. Tompsitt, William 
Bowen, Rawson Park Francis, and William Young Nelson 
were duly elected. 
The annual meeting was held on the 10th March, 1886, and 
was well attended. After the adoption of the report and 
balance-sheet, the retiring President, Mr. William Bowen, 
J.P., delivered an address, in which he reviewed the princip)al 
matters of interest that had engaged the attention of the 
Council during the year, and at the conclusion of the address 
the Society’s gold medal and the President’s prize were pre- 
sented to Mr. Paul Ward Farmer, the dux student of the year, 
by the President. 
At the meeting of the Council held on the 12th March, 
1886, the election of office-bearers for the year 1886-7 took 
place, and Mr. William Bowen was unanimously re-elected 
President, Mr. James Brinsmead Vice-president, and Messrs. 
Henry Gamble and Harry Shillinglaw hon. treasurer and hon. 
secretary, the retiring auditors, Messrs. C. A. Atkin and W. 
Hodgkiss, being also re-elected. 
The request to Mr. C. R. Blackett and Mr. D. M'Alpine 
that they would undertake the duties of lecturers on chemis- 
try and materia mediea and botany at the College of Phar- 
macy until the arrival from England of Mr. A. H. Jackson 
was promptly responded to, and the Council have to thank 
these gentlemen for conducting the classes for the first term 
of the year 1886. 
The departure from the colony on a visit to England of 
two of the leading members of the Society, Mr. Joseph 
Bosisto, M.P., C.M.G., and Mr. William Bowen, J.P., Presi- 
dent of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australasia, was made 
prominent by the entertainments given in their honour. 
Amongst the matters of interest brought forward by the 
Gouimil (luring the year may be mentioned the request to the 
Medical Society of Victoria and the Victorian branch of the 
British Medical Association that steps might be taken by the 
medical profession to bring the new Pharinacopcnia into opera- 
tion in Victoria. 
The course of instruction at the College of Pharmacy has 
also engaged the attention of the Council, and has been 
amended so that two complete courses are now held in the 
year. 
In the last annual report mention was made that the com- 
mittee appointed in London to select a director and lecturer 
at the College of Pharmacy had nominated Mr. A. H. Jack- 
son, B.Sc., F.C.S., M.P.S., &e., to fill the position. 
Mr. Jackson arrived in June last, and at once entered upon 
his duties. 
In reference to the Dental Act it was, at the suggestion of 
the Odontological Society, resolved that a conference be held 
between the Odontological and Pharmaceutical Societies to 
discuss the proposed Dental Act. This has been carried out, 
and a bill agreed to. 
So much publicity has already been given to the meeting of 
the first Intercolonial Pharmaceutical Conference which was 
held in Melbourne on the 27th, 28th, and 29th October last, 
that it is unnecessary to refer to it at any length in this re- 
port. All the Australasian colonies were represented, and the 
successful arrangement of the meeting entailed on the Coun- 
cil a considerable amount of labour, and your Council hope 
that the resolutions unanimously agreed to at the Conference 
will be productive of permanent good. 
They cannot, however, close the reference to this subject 
without expressing their regret at the absence from the meet- 
