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Fifth  INTERNATIONAL  PHARMACEUTICAL  CONGRESS. 
First  Day — Monday^  August  1. 
The  business  of  the  fifth  session  of  tlie  International  Pharmaceutical 
Congress  was  commenced  on  Monday,  August  1,  at  the  house  of  the  Phar- 
maceutical Society,  17  Bloomsbury  kSquare,  London.  There  was  a  large 
attendance  of  foreign  delegates,  as  w^ell  as  of  English  pharmacists. 
The  President  of  tlie  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  (Ireat  Britain,  Mr.  T. 
Greenish,  took  tlie  chair  at  11  A.M.,  and  opened  the  proceedings  with  an 
address  of  welcome,  after  which  the  Secretary,  Mr.  R.  Bremridge,  read  the 
report  of  the  Executive  Committee,  stating  that  about  four  hundred  invi- 
tations to  attend  the  Congress  were  issued  ;  that  it  had  been  decided  that 
the  language  of  the  Congress  shall  be  English,  buti)rovision  had  been  made 
for  translations  into  French  and  German,  and  that  invitations  had  been 
received  for  visiting  the  Gardens  of  the  Royal  Botanic  and  Zoological 
Societies,  the  International  Medical  and  Sanitary  Exhibition,  the  Plorti- 
cultural  Gardens,  South  Kensington,  and  the  Kew  Gardens  before  they 
are  opened  to  the  general  public. 
The  Congress  was  constituted  as  follows  : 
a.  The  existing  members  of  the  Congress,  i.  e.,  the  President,  Vice  Pres- 
idents and  Secretaries. 
b.  The  President,  Vice  President,  past  and  present  members  of  the 
Council,  Boards  of  Examiners  and  other  officers  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  ( Ireat  Britain. 
c.  The  President,  Vice  President,  past  and  present  members  of  the 
Council,  Board  of  Examiners  and  other  officers  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society  of  Ireland. 
d.  All  duly  accredited  foreign  visitors  to  the  Congress. 
e.  The  President  and  Vice  Presidents  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference. 
/.  The  President  and  Vice  President  of  the  Trade  Association  of  Great 
Britain. 
g.  The  presidents  or  delegates  of  other  pharmaceutical  associations. 
The  following  is  a  list  of  the  delegates  and  other  visitors  who  were  pres- 
ent at  the  Congress : 
A.  Baier^  Buda  Pesth,  Hungary.    G.  Baker,  Rome.    C.  Blottiere,  Paris. 
H.  Bottger,  Bunzlau.    dir.  Brunnengniber,  Rostock.    C.  H.  Burk,  Stutt- 
gart.   A.  Champigny,  Paris.    ¥.  Champigny,  Paris.    L.  Cornells,  Diest, 
Belgium.    Wni.  B.  Cranwell,  Argentine  Republic    Egide  Daenen,  Brus- 
sels.   Luigi  Be  Cpesaris,  Rome.     E.  Desnoix,  Paris.    Adhemar  Dethan, 
Paris.    J.  E.  De  Vrij,  the  Hague.    Josef  Dittrich,  Prague.    W.  F.  W. 
Eckell,  Christiania.    Eusebe  P'errand,  Paris.    William  H.  Ford,  Mel- 
bourne.   Jean  Francois  Gillaume,  Paris.    Norbert  Gille,  Brussels.  R. 
GodefFroy,  Vienna.  G.  Hansen,  Christiania.  Fred.  Hofihiann,  New  York. 
R.  Jacobi,  Elberfeld.    A.  Jonas,  Brussels.    Adolph  Lamury,  Mons,  Bel- 
gium.   G.  Lotze,  Odense,  Denmark.    I.  Martenson,  St.  Petersburg.  H. 
P.  Madsen,  Copenhagen.   C.  Meliu,  Paris.   Adr.  Nickles,  Benfeld,  Alsace. 
Oscar  Oldberg,  New  York.  Ch.  Piitrouillard,  Gisors,  France.  Arthur  Petit, 
Paris.    A.  Poehl,  St.  Petersburg.    Jules  Putsage,  Mons,  Belgium.    J.  W. 
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