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Messrs. Mirus, Trapp, and Waldheim concurred in this opinion. 
The President stated that the questions which had been submitted to the 
Congress having been disposed of, it only remained for them to consider 
what was the best method of communicating the conclusions that had been 
arrived at on some of the subjects to the several Governments by whom the 
desired changes might be effected. After a discussion on this point, in which 
Messrs. Trapp, Schuppe, Bobinet, Evans, Bjorklund, Faber, Mirus, 
Schlosser, etc., took part, it was decided that the conclusions of the Con¬ 
gress, in the German language, should be sent to the ministers of state of the 
different countries represented in the Congress, and to all the members of 
the Congress. It was also suggested that the members should endeavour 
individually to make interest with their Governments in furtherance of the 
proposed objects, and that the expenses connected with these applications 
should be shared by the corporations represented in the Congress. 
The President then inquired where and when the next Congress should 
be held. 
It was determined that the fourth International Congress should take 
place after the lapse of three years ; and it was left to a Committee, consist¬ 
ing of the Presidents of the five principal pharmaceutical associations on the 
Continent, namely, those of France, B-ussia, North and South Germany, and 
Austria, to make the necessary arrangements for it. 
It was proposed by Mr. Dittrich and Mr. Trapp that the next meeting 
should be held at St. Petersburg, but the final decision on this point was also 
left to the Committee of the five Presidents. 
The President (Dankwortt) invited the delegates to the celebration of the 
fiftieth year of the establishment of the Pharmaceutical Society of North 
Germany, which would be held next year at Dresden. 
A cordial vote of thanks was carried by acclamation to the President for the . 
able and impartial manner in which he had conducted the proceedings of the 
Congress ; also to the pharmaceutists of Vienna, and especially to the Com¬ 
mittee by whom the Congress had been organized, for the kind and cordial 
reception they had given to the members who attended from other parts. 
The President, after returning thanks, declared the third International 
Pharmaceutical Congress concluded. 
On the evening of Thursday, the 9th, the delegates were most hospitably 
and sumptuously entertained by the pharmaceutists of Vienna, in the hall of 
the Weisses Boss, where a banquet was provided to which about a hundred 
sat down. The utmost cordiality appeared to exist among all present; and a 
good opportunity was afforded for estimating the perfection to which an art, 
kindred to that of pharmacy, has been brought in Vienna, and also for ob¬ 
serving the habits and manners of the Viennese on such jovial occasions, in 
both of which respects the impression produced upon those who then visited 
Vienna for the first time was of a very gratifying nature. 
On Saturday, the 11th, the delegates were again entertained by the Vien¬ 
nese pharmaceutists ; and a rich treat was provided in the form of an excur¬ 
sion to the Styrian Alps. A special train was provided for the excursionists 
at 8 o’clock in the morning, by which a party of about 200 ladies and gen¬ 
tlemen were conveyed to the greatest elevation of the Semmering Pass, 
among the mountain peaks of Styria. The railroad, itself one of the wonders 
of engineering art of this description, pursues a circuitous course among and 
through the mountains, constantly ascending, until it attains to a height of 
several thousand feet, the views along the line being of a most diversified 
and often surpassingly beautiful character. After several hours’ travelling 
along this line, the train reached the intended point, that of greatest eleva- 
