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NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
International  Pharmaceutical  Congress. — There  have  been  nine 
meetings  of  the  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress.  They  have  been 
held,  according  to  the  Chem.  and  Drug.,  1900,  p.  268,  as  follows:  Brunswick 
(1865)  ;  Paris  (1867)  ;  Vienna  (1869) ;  St.  Petersburg  (1874)  ;  London  (1881)  ; 
Brussels  (1885)  ;  Chicago  (1893)  ;  Brussels  (1898)  ;  Paris  (i960). 
Merchants'  and  Manufacturers'  Exposition. — There  will  be  held  a 
Merchants'  and  Manufacturers'  Exposition  at  the  Mechanics'  Building,  Boston, 
from  October  1st  to  27th  of  the  present  year — 1900 — which  will  be  the  first 
triennial  show  given  under  the  auspices  of  the  Merchants'  and  Manufacturers' 
Exhibition  Association  (incorporated). 
International  Catalogue  oe  Scientific  Literature. — It  was  decided 
at  an  international  conference  held  in  London  in  June,  1900,  to  publish,  begin- 
ning with  the  year  1901,  an  International  Catalogue  of  Scientific  Literature, 
which  is  to  be  issued  only  in  the  form  of  annual  volumes  at  first.  The  cata- 
logue is  to  include  both  an  author  and  a  subject  index.  It  will  comprise  the 
following  subjects  :  Mathematics,  mechanics,  physics,  chemistry,  astronomy, 
meteorology  (including  terrestrial  magnetism),  mineralogy  (including  petrol- 
ogy and  crystallography),  geology,  geography  (mathematical  and  physical), 
paleontology,  general  biology,  botany,  zoology,  human  anatomy,  physical 
anthropology,  physiology  (including  experimental  psychology,  pharmacology 
and  experimental  pathology)  and  bacteriology  ;  in  all  seventeen  subjects.  At 
least  one  volume  will  be  given  to  each  subject,  and  it  is  proposed  that  not  all 
the  volumes  shall  be  issued  at  once,  but  in  four  groups,  as  soon  as  possible 
after  the  first  of  January,  April,  July  and  October,  respectively.  The  subscrip- 
tion price  for  a  complete  set  of  the  whole  catalogue  in  seventeen  volumes  is 
£17,  say  $85. 
The  Smithsonian  Institution  has  provisionally  undertaken  to  represent  the 
interests  of  the  catalogue  in  the  United  States,  and  will  receive  promises  of 
subscriptions. 
The  Wellcome  Chemical  Research  Laboratories,  now  located  at  6 
King  Street,  Snow  Hill,  London,  E.C.,  were  established  in  1896,  and  recently 
a  pamphlet  descriptive  of  their  origin  and  province  has  been  issued.  The  plan 
for  these  laboratories  originated  with  Mr.  Henry  S.  Wellcome,  of  the  firm  of 
Burroughs,  Wellcome  &  Co.,  and,  as  stated  in  the  pamphlet,  they  "  are  de- 
signed for  investigations  in  both  pure  and  applied  chemistry,  and,  in  the  latter 
instance,  to  the  study  of  that  large  class  of  both  organic  and  inorganic  com- 
pounds which  are  employed  as  medicinal  agents  in  the  treatment  of  disease." 
Dr.  Frederick  B.  Power,  well  known  for  his  chemical  research  work,  is  the 
director,  and,  from  time  to  time,  publications  embodying  the  results  of  original 
work  will  be  distributed,  several  communications  having  already  appeared. 
The  National  Formulary. — In  order  to  acquaint  the  medical  profession 
more  thoroughly  with  the  many  desirable  and  valuable  preparations  to  be 
found  in  the  National  Formulary,  a  complete  epitome  of  the  formulas  has 
been  prepared  under  the  direction  of  the  Council  of  the  American  Pharma- 
