Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.,  1889. 
Editorial. 
49a 
jury  consists  of  the  Presidents  of  the  London  Chemical  Society,  the  Linnean 
Society,  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  and  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Confer., 
ence,  and  of  a  pharmaceutical  chemist  nominated  by  the  two  last  named 
presidents. 
The  first  medal  was  awarded  in  1881  to  Prof.  F.  A.  Fltickiger  of  Strassburg. 
The  subsequent  awards  were  made  in  1883  to  John  Eliot  Howard,  whose  name  is 
intimately  connected  with  the  history  of  the  cinchonas ;  in  1885  to  Prof. 
George  Dragendorff  of  Dorpat,  well  known  for  the  scientific  investigation  of 
medicinal  plants,  and  in  1887  to  Professor  Wm.  Dymock,  Brigade  Surgeon  in 
Bombay,  for  his  long  continued  prominent  labors  relating  to  the  East  Indian 
materia  medica. 
During  the  present  year  the  honor  has  been  bestowed  upon  Dr.  Gustave 
Planchon,  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  in  the  Ecole  superieure  de  Pharmacie 
of  Paris,  who  is  the  author  of  a  valuable  work  on  Materia  Medica,  has  edited^ 
after  Guibourt's  death,  the  Histoire  ISTaturelle  des  drogues  simples,  and  has 
enriched  literature  by  numerous  papers  on  various  drugs  embodying  his 
researches. 
The  Seventh  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  has  at  last  been 
called  to  meet  in  the  city  of  Milan  during  the  early  part  of  September,  1890. 
At  the  sixth  congress,  which  was  held  in  Brussels  in  1885,  it  was  decided  to 
convene  the  next  one  in  1888  ;  but  like  the  preceding  and  several  previous 
congresses  it  was  deemed  inopportune  to  let  it  take  place  precisely  at  the  time 
originally  fixed.  The  causes  for  this  delay  do  not  appear  to  have  been  made 
public,  and  no  light  has  been  thrown  on  it  by  the  recent  publication  {Journal 
de  Pharmacie  d'Anvers,  June)  of  the  letters  addressed  by  the  executive  officers 
of  the  Brussels  Congress  to  the  Lombardy  Pharmaceutical  Association.  This 
body,  it  appears,  early  in  1888,  had  secured  the  support  of  the  Italian  govern- 
ment and  of  the  Milan  city  authorities  in  favor  of  the  project;  but  owing  to 
lack  of  time  for  making  all  the  requisite  preparations  for  a  meeting  in  the  same 
year,  decided  to  postpone  it  until  1889.  But  since  it  was  found  that  during  the 
international  exposition  now  in  progress  in  Paris  several  international  meet- 
ings would  be  held  there,  in  which  pharmacists  are  especially  interested  (Am. 
Jour.  Phar.,  July,  p.  383),  it  was  deemed  best  to  further  postpone  the  conven- 
ing of  the  seventh  pharmaceutical  congress. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  Lombardy  has  appointed  a  committee  of 
organization,  composed  of  about  thirty  of  prominent  Italian  chemists  and 
pharmacists,  among  others  Ciamician,  Daccomo,  Guareschi,  Mosca,  Pavesi  and 
Spica.  Professor  Stanislao  Cannizzaro  is  president  of  this  committee ;  the  sec- 
retaries are  Dr.  Arturo  Castoldi  and  Venturini  Vittorio.  . 
The  following  will  be  admitted  as  members  of  this  congress :  a.  professors  of 
universities,  polytechnic  schools  and  colleges ;  b.  professors  of  physical  and 
natural  sciences  of  any  school ;  c.  pharmacists  and  chemists  delegated  by  phar- 
maceutical associations  or  by  sanitary  authorities;  d.  members  of  sanitary 
councils  or  boards ;  e.  assistants  in  institutions,  laboratories  or  cabinets  devoted 
to  physical  and  natural  sciences,  medicine  or  pharmacy ;  /.  chemists,  directors 
and  assistants  of  municipal  laboratories,  agricultural  stations,  and  of  all  labor- 
atories for  the  public  service ;  g.  proprietors  and  directors  of  chemical  indus- 
tries and  chemists  attached  to  such  industries. 
