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for  advancement  in  matters  pharmaceutic  and,  though  not  always 
right,  he  labored  and  fought  according  to  his  light,  and  this,  it 
must  be  admitted  by  all,  was  kept  bright  by  closely  following 
the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  literature  of  the  day.  His  incentive 
and  co-operation  will  be  missed  in  many  fields,  but  in  none  so 
acutely  as  in  the  frequently  fallow  field  of  pharmaceutical  education. 
Berlin  Pharmaceutical  Institute. — A  news  note  announces  the 
publication  of  an  attractive  volume  commemorative  of  the  centenary 
of  the  University  of  Berlin.  The  book  is  entitled  "  Das  Pharma- 
ceutische  Institut  der  Universitat  Berlin,"  and  is  written  by  Pro- 
fessor Dr.  Hermann  Thorns,  Director  of  the  Institute.  It  contains 
an  account  of  the  development  of  pharmaceutical  education  at  the 
University  of  Berlin  since  its  foundation  in  1810,  and  a  detailed 
description  of  the  buildings  now  in  use  (Pharm.  J.  (Lond.),  1910, 
v.  85,  p.  487). 
International  Comgress  of  Pharmacy.  —  The  International 
Congress  of  Pharmacy,  held  in  Brussels,  September  1  to  6,  1910, 
promises  to  have  a  potential  influence  on  the  progress  of  pharmacy 
in  all  of  the  many  countries  represented. 
The  question  of  the  approximation  of  the  several  national 
pharmacopoeias  is  one  that  is  of  great  importance  and  received 
due  consideration,  and  the  communication  presented  by  Dr. 
Schamelhout  on  the  unification  of  analytical  methods  promises  to 
be  of  service  in  correlating  the  standards  and  the  tests  included 
in  the  several  pharmacopoeias. 
Nomenclature. — It  is  unfortunate  indeed  that  the  International 
Congress  of  Pharmacy  paid  little  or  no  attention  to  the  possibility 
of  developing  an  international  nomenclature  for  widely  used  medica- 
ments. A  recent  article  in  Science  (  October  28,  1910,  p.  594)  in 
commenting  on  the  work  done  in  this  connection  by  the  Brussels 
Botanical  Congress,  and  by  the  International  Congress  of  Zoologists, 
which  met  this  year  at  Gratz,  says :  "  The  fact  that  the  problems 
of  nomenclature  have  assumed  sufficient  importance  to  be  con- 
sidered by  international  congresses  should  sustain  our  hope  for 
further  progress,  especially  when  we  recognize  that  such  matters 
are  subject  to  the  general  laws  of  evolution  and  education  and 
that  perfection  cannot  be  attained  at  a  single  bound." 
Commercialism  in  Pharmacy  Abroad. — An  editorial  in  the 
Pharmaceutical  Journal  points  out  that  the  proceedings  of  the  In- 
ternational Congress  of  Pharmacy  appear  to  indicate  that  the  com- 
