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THIRD SITTING. 
Thursday, September 7th, 7 r.M. 
COMMUNICATION FROM GERMANY. 
The I resident informed the meeting that the Pharmaceutical Conference had 
been invited to send representatives to an International Pharmaceutical Con¬ 
gress to be held at Brunswick on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of the present month, 
llie 1 harmaceutical Society had originally been requested to send deputies to 
Brunswick, but the council had referred the German Union to the Conference 
as an association that courted correspondence with societies having similar aims 
in other countries. Since the reply of the Pharmaceutical Council had been 
sent to Germany, he (Mr. Deane) had been visited at Clapham by one of the 
piomoters of the Brunswick Congress. Continental engagements would not 
allow this gentleman to attend the Birmingham meeting, but he had forwarded 
a letter of invitation, a literal translation of which would now be read :_ 
Highly Honoured Assembly, —I most extremely regret my inability to accept the 
invitation of Mr. Henry Deane to be present with you in Birmingham, not that I do not 
wish to come, but that my journey to certain places—as Paris, Rennes, London, Brussels, 
Amsterdam, Heilbronn, and Brunswick—is already fixed. Especially, how r ever, am I 
prevented because the South German Apothecaries’ Union holds its general meeting at 
Heilbronn on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of September, at which time the International Com¬ 
mission (of which I am a member), which was appointed last year at Wiesbaden, to con¬ 
sider the subject of an International Pharmaceutical Congress* will also meet. 
Ihis International Pharmaceutical Congress is no special idea of one man, or of any 
single body of men, but is called into existence by the general relations of pharmacy at 
the present time. Pharmacy in all countries requires reformation, if we do not wish to 
be overridden by the professors of medicine, and to be degraded to the level of a mere 
trading community. Nearly all the European societies have already appointed their 
delegates. Among the larger states Great Britain alone remains blank. 
“At the French Congress held in Rennes, the following gentlemen were appointed to 
represent France at the proposed meeting at Brunswick:—Dr. Robinet, formerly Pre¬ 
sident of the Medical Academy of Paris, now Director of the Pharmaceutical Society of 
Paris, and the President of the Congress in Rennes; Mr. Schauffele, apothecary in Paris, 
President of the Congress held at Strasburg; and Mr. Giorgino, apothecary in Colmar. 
“In Rennes the opinion was universal that there was no doubt but that England 
would be represented on so important an occasion as the first assembling of an Inter¬ 
national Pharmaceutical Congress. When the societies in such small states as Denmark 
and Finland have not neglected to elect representatives to Brunswick, all will ask, Why 
has Great Britain remained behind ? 
“ It is not necessary that three representatives be chosen, inasmuch as the voting will not 
be by numbers, but each society will have one vote, whether one or more of its delegates 
be present. On this account several societies have not sent three delegates. 
“ I beg, therefore, that the conference in Birmingham will, on its meeting, transmit 
by telegraph the names of those chosen to represent it to the address of the Head 
Director of the South German Apothecaries’ Union, Dr. Rieckher, Heilbronn, Wiirtem- 
berg. 
“ Truly yours, 
“Dr. Bjorklund, 
“ Apothecary and Secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of St. Petersburg. 
“ London, August 25, 1865.” 
In the discussion that ensued, it was elicited that the shortness of the notice 
made it impracticable for any member to accept the invitation to the Congress 
at Brunswick for the present month. Finally, a resolution proposed by & Mr. 
Brady, and seconded by Dr. Edwards, was carried :— 
“ That the communication of Dr. Bjorklund be entered upon the Minutes, and that 
the Executive Committee be requested 1 to keep in view the feasibility of sending 
delegates to any meeting of the International Pharmaceutical Congress, which may be 
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