514  International  Phaimiaceutical  Congress,  {^^oct^^ssi^"^' 
Rehe,  Cologne.  Jules  Reyiiaud,  Paris.  A.  Sauter,  Geneva.  Carl  Schacht, 
Berlin.  Wilhelm  Sebardt,  Stockholm.  Nicola  Sinimberghi,  Rome.  Frank 
R.  Squire,  San  Remo.  Robert  Stoll,  St.  Petersburg.  Jozef  Torok,  Buda 
Pesth,  Hungary.  Julius  Trukoczy,  Laibacli.  Henri  Verhassel,  Antwerp. 
A.  von  Waldheim,  Vienna.    M.  Brisbane  Ward,  Queensland. 
Delegates  were  also  present  from  Ireland  and  from  some  local  associa- 
tions in  Great  Britain. 
Committees  were  appointed  as  follows :  Messrs.  Madsen,  Petit,  Godeffroy, 
Butt  and  Bobbins,  to  verify  the  credentials  of  delegates,  and  Messrs.  Brun- 
nengriiber,  Martenson,  von  AValdheim  and  Carteighe,  to  draw  up  a  list  of 
nominations  for  election  of  officers  of  the  Congress. 
After  a  short  retirement,  the  Committee  of  Nomination  recommended 
that  Dr.  Theoj^hilus  Fledw^ood,  of  London,  should  be  elected  as  President 
of  the  Congress.  This  recommendation  was  received  with  acclamation  by 
the  meeting,  and  Prof.  Redwood  accordingly  took  the  chair. 
The  following  additional  officers  were  elected  : 
Vice  Presidents — Clir.  Brunnengraber,  Rostock;  J.  Dittrich,  Prague; 
N.  Gille,  Brussels;  G.  I^otze,  Odense;  H.  P.  Madsen,  Coi^enhagen;  T. 
Hansen,  Christiania;  I.  Martenson,  St.  Petersburg;  A.  Petit,  Paris;  A. 
Poehl,  St.  Petersburg;  W.  Sebardt,  Stockholm;  N.  Sinimberghi,  Rome; 
J.  Tomk,  Buda  Pesth;  A.  von  Waldheim,  Vienna;  T.  Greenish,  London; 
R.  Reynolds,  Leeds;  Peter  Squire,  London.  Secretaries — M.  Carteighe, 
Xondon;  R.  Godeffroy,  Vienna;  F.  Hoffmann,  New  York  ;  C.C.Payne, 
Belfa.st;  Carl  Schacht,  Berlin. 
The  report  of  the  Executive  Conmiittee,  previously  read,  was  approved 
and  adopted,  with  the  recommendations,  and  the  members  of  that  com- 
mittee were  appointed  the  Executive  Conmiittee  of  this  Congress,  and  Mr. 
R.  Brem ridge  the  General  Secretary  to  the  Congress. 
Amongst  the  regulations  referred  to  were  two  of  some  importance,  viz., 
that  all  papers  should  be  read  in  English  by  the  authors,  if  present,  if  not, 
by  the  Secretary,  and  that  in  discussion  no  speech  should  exceed  five  min- 
utes in  length. 
International  Pharmacopceia. — This  subject  was  then  taken  up  for  con- 
sideration, and  a  number  of  communications  were  read.  A  paper  by  Mr. 
Dittrich,  of  Prague,  gave  a  history  of  the  previous  transactions  on  this  sub- 
ject, and  made  the  following  propositions  : 
1.  That  the  resolutions  of  the  Congress  in  St.  Petersburg  in  1874  should 
be  generally  confirmed.^ 
^ From  the  resolutions  passed  at  the  Fourth  International  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Congress  at  St.  Petersburg  we  print  the  following,  referring  to  the  scope 
and  arrangement  of  the  work  : 
"(5).  The  Iiiternatioii'.il  Pharmacopa"ia  is  not  to  supersede  national  pliarniacopoeias,  but  it  is  essentially 
desirable  that  i:i  construction  of  the  latter  the  fundamental  principles  of  the  International  Pharma- 
coj)tcia  should  be  adopted. 
"iG).  Witlxnit  anticipating  the  labors  of  the  Commission,  it  is  the  desire  of  the  Fourth  International 
Pharmaccnticiil  Congress  that  the  following  points  hhould  be  borne  in  mind  in  the  construction  of  an 
International  Pliarmacopoeia : 
"(a).  That  the  language  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  should  be  Latin,  as  decided  at  the  Congresses  of  Paris  and 
Vienna. 
"(li).  That  the  meti  ic  system  shall  be  adopted  in  the  formulse  of  preparations. 
"(c).  The',nomenclatnre  is  as  far  as  possible  to  be  uniform, 
"(d).  With  ordinary  drugs  only  the  names  to  be  given. 
"(ej.  With  potent  drugs  the  minimum  amount  of  active  sul)stance  is  to  be  mentioned. 
"(  f).  Galenical  preparations,  such  as  tinctures,  extracts,  etc.,  should  be  made  as  nearly  uniform  as  pos- 
sible. 
„((/).  Tlie  maximum  admissible  amount  of  iminuity  in  chemical  preparations  is  to  be  stated." 
