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SCIENCE 



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It was announced that 3,000 members had 

 joined the congress with 650 ladies. 



Reports of the several sections were presented 

 with the resolutions recommended for adoption. 

 All were approved except those bearing upon 

 certain patent legislation. These were postponed 

 to the next congress. 



The following resolutions from the sections 

 were put to the meeting: 



Section I. — 



1. " En vue d'uniiier les mSthodes d'analyse et 

 de r&herche dans I'essai des essences de produits 

 rgsineux, le congrfes international de chimie ap- 

 pliqufe 6met le vceu de voir s'6tablir par les soins 

 de la Section I. un tableau d^finissant les bases 

 ^ utiliser dans I'estimation la puretfi des sousdits 

 produits et dont I'usage serait fortement recom- 

 mand^ a tous les analystes." 



2. " The institution of official methods for agri- 

 cultural analyses is undesirable, unless subject to 

 periodical revision." 



3. " The Seventh International Congress of Ap- 

 plied Chemistry considers that it is desirable to 

 adopt uniform principles in connection with the 

 application of reference tests, and is of opinion 

 that the proposals made by Professor T. W. Fre- 

 senius constitute a suitable basis for these prin- 

 ciples." 



Section IVa. bis. " That the section in future 

 congresses be a separate and independent section 

 entitled Biochemistry, including pharmacology." 



Section VIb. " That this meeting, being in sym- 

 pathy with the suggestion of Professor Lindner 

 to form a central bureau for fermentation organ- 

 isms, hereby empowers him to write to the council 

 of the Institute of Brewing (London) as to how 

 such a project could be carried into effect." 



Section Villa. 



1. " That the congress requests the various gov- 

 ernments to nominate a commission to make re- 

 searches in collaboration with manufacturers on 

 materials used in the ceramic arts, to encourage 

 the use of substances not containing lead; to 

 restrain the use of lead materials, and to conduct 

 further researches with regard to protective ma- 

 terials for the hygienic use of those engaged in 

 the ceramic industries." 



Reports were received from the International 

 Commission for the Unification of Analytical 

 Methods, which body held short sessions on the 

 mornings of May 29 and 31 and June 1, between 

 9 and 10 a.m. At these certain resolutions were 

 passed, which were communicated verbatim to 

 the general meeting on June 2. 



On the occasion of the discussion on brandy a 

 resolution was passed embodying a definition of 

 the word " brandy." 



2. In conjunction with Sections Ilia, and XI. 

 " The congress is requested to appoint a com- 

 mittee to impress upon the governments of each 

 country represented at the congress the impor- 

 tance of adopting a uniform law throughout their 

 respective territories regarding the emission of 

 noxious fumes from chemical and metallurgical 

 works and of black smoke from works and fac- 

 tories. The section believes that the abatement of 

 atmospheric pollution will be most rapidly secured 

 by placing the control of all such gaseous emana- 

 tions in the hands of fully qualified inspectors 

 capable of giving the necessary technical advice 

 to manufacturers. It records its conviction that 

 the dispersal of the pall of smoke covering certain 

 industrial districts in England and elsewhere will 

 be accompanied by enormous benefit to the inhab- 

 itants, and will prove an ultimate gain to the 

 manufacturer." 



Section Vlllb. " That this meeting of the 

 Pharmaceutical Chemistry Section of the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Applied Chemistry having re- 

 ceived and discussed communications by Messrs. 

 Squire and Caines and MacEwan and Forrester, 

 resolves that it is desirable that an international 

 enquiry should be instituted with a view to se- 

 curing: (1) greater uniformity in the commer- 

 cial supplies of patent drugs and the means for 

 determining the same, and (2) approximation in 

 the pharmacopoeias of the world to common stand- 

 ards of activity. With a view to advancing these 

 objects this meeting further recommends that the 

 following provisional committee be appointed to 

 enquire and report on the subject to the next 

 meeting of the congress : Messrs. P. W. Squire and 

 F. Ransom (Great Britain), Professors H. Thorns 

 and E. Schmidt (Germany), Professor E. Bour- 

 quelot and M. Leger (France), Professors Piutti 

 and Guareschi (Italy), Professors Remington and 

 Rusby (United States), with P. MacEwan (Great 

 Britain and United States) and G. P. Forrester 

 (European Continent) as secretaries. This meet- 

 ing recommends that the provisional committee 

 shall have power to invite as members with equal 

 rights persons who have interested themselves in 

 this subject, and further that this resolution shall 

 be conveyed to the governments and pharmaco- 

 poeial authorities who were represented at the 

 Brussels Conference (1902) on the unification of 

 potent remedies." 



