Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  1 
December,  1903.  J 
Pharjnaceutical  Meeting. 
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Vol.  88,  page  147)  calls  attention  to  rather  an  innovation  in  exist- 
ing patent  laws,  embodied  in  the  proposed  "  Australian  Federal 
Patents  Bill,"  now  pending  for  adoption  by  the  Commonwealth  of 
Australia.  The  provisions  that  are  particularly  interesting  to 
American  pharmacists,  as  a  possible  line  of  argument  for  use  in 
connection  with  the  proposed  change  in  our  own  patent  laws  relat- 
ing to  product  and  process  patents,  are  contained  in  section  83  of 
the  proposed  Australian  law. 
Every  patent  shall  be  granted  subject  to  the  following  conditions: 
(#)That  the  patentee  or  some  person  authorized  by  him  shall  within 
five  years  after  the  date  thereof  commence,  and  after  such  com- 
mencement continuously  carry  on  in  Australia,  the  construction, 
manufacture  or  working  of  the  invention  patented  in  such  a  manner 
that  any  person  desiring  to  use  it  may  obtain  it  or  the  use  of  it  at  a 
reasonable  pric,e ;  and 
(b)  That  the  patentee  shall  not  after  four  years  from  the  date  of 
the  patent  import  the  invention  or  cause  it  to  be  imported  into 
Australia. 
The  same  correspondent  calls  attention  to  an  amendment  of  the 
Canadian  patent  laws,  under  the  act  of  August  13,  1903,  which 
provides  "  that  the  patentee  or  his  representative  must  within  two 
years  commence  and  continuously  carry  on  in  Canada  the  con- 
struction or  manufacture  of  his  invention.  If,  after  a  period  of 
twelve  months  from  the  grant  of  the  patent,  the  patentee  or  his 
representative  imports  into  Canada  the  invention  for  which  the 
patent  is  granted,  the  patent  shall  be  void." 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  stated  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  ot 
Pharmacy  was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  November  17th,  with  Mr. 
Howard  B.  French,  President  of  the  College,  in  the  chair. 
Upon  calling  the  meeting  to  order  the  chairman  announced  that, 
in  addition  to  the  regular  program,  there  would  be  the  presenta- 
tion of  a  portrait  of  the  late  Registrar  of  the  College,  W.  Nelson 
Stem.  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington,  who  formally  presented  the  por- 
trait on  behalf  of  the  Memorial  Committee,  said  that  shortly  after 
Mr.  Stem's  death  a  movement  was  started  to  present  to  the  college 
a  substantial  memorial  of  him,  and  that  it  had  been  finally  decided 
