Board of Studies in Pharmacy

At its meeting on 19th August 1918, Senate adopted the motion of the Dean of Medicine, T A Stuart, for the appointment of a Board of Studies in Pharmacy.

The Board was responsible for the supervision of the courses in that subject. The first meeting of the Board of Studies in Pharmacy appears to have been held on 10 September 1919. The minutes of this meeting are not signed; they state that the reason for meeting was to discuss the question of the establishment of a Bachelor of Science Degree in pharmaceutical subjects.

The new by-laws, published in the University Calendar of 1920, did not refer to a Board of Studies in Pharmacy although the section on University Officers listed the members of the Board of Studies in Pharmacy viz The Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor, the Warden, Professors Chapman, Fawsitt, Read, Lawson, Johnston, Acting-Professors McLuckie, Schofield, Mr S H Stroud, and the Chairman of the Pharmacy Board. Subsequently, the members of the Board of Studies were changed to the Dean of Faculty of Science, the Professors of Botany, Chemistry and Pharmacology and the President of the Pharmacy Board of NSW. By having a representative on the Board of Studies the Pharmacy Board of NSW was able to work more closely with the University.

The 1959 University calendar contains the last entry for the Board of Studies in Pharmacy.  In 1960, finally, a degree course in Pharmacy was introduced and from 1960 onward new students were no longer admitted to the Pharmacy course proceeding to the qualifying examination of the Pharmacy Board of NSW as a degree in Pharmacy was now awarded in the Faculty of Science. Under By-Laws Chap XIII 2B The Board of Studies in Science consisted of  '(in addition to the Registrar) of the Dean and the Sub-Dean and eight other members, to be elected one each by the members of the Faculty who are members of the following Schools or Departments: The Schools of (i) Chemistry, (ii) Physics, (iii) Mathematics; the Departments of (iv) Geology, (v) Botany, (vi) Zoology, (vii) Geography, (viii) Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Physiology, Anatomy. The Board shall have power to co-opt such other members of the Faculty as it shall from time to time see fit.'

With the University no longer offering entry to the course proceeding to the qualifying examination the Board of Studies in Pharmacy ceased to exist.