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INTERNATIONAL  PHARMACEUTICAL  CONGRESS. 
The  ninth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  was  held,  as 
previously  announced  (this  Journal,  1900,  p.  v),  in  Paris,  August 
3-8,  1900.  While  it  is  doubtful  if  anything  of  real  value  was  done, 
it  is  a  good  thing  to  keep  up  the  Congress,  as  eventually  its  work 
must  take  definite  shape.  We  cannot  but  agree  with  the 
editor  of  the  Chemist  and  Druggist  when  he  says  the  making  of  an 
International  Pharmacopoeia  is  one  "  which  chiefly  concerns  the 
Pharmacopoeia  Committees  of  the  various  countries.  Committees 
representative  of  different  countries  have  failed  because  they  have 
wasted  time  over  details ;  whereas,  it  is  the  principle  that  waits 
recognition,  and  the  Pharmacopoeia  authorities  are  the  people  to  act 
upon  that."  The  account  which  we  furnish  our  readers  of  the 
action  of  this  Congress  is  taken  from  the  issue  of  August  II,  1900, 
of  that  journal. 
The  meetings  of  the  Congress  were  held  in  the  Ecole  de  Phar- 
macie  Superieure,  and  were  very  well  attended. 
The  President,  M.  Petit,  gave  simply  a  cordial  welcome  to  the 
visitors.    The  matter  of 
THE  INTERNATIONAL  PHARMACOPOEIA 
was  reported  upon  by  Bourquelot,  and  a  committee  was  appointed 
to  make  a  report. 
The  conclusions  arrived  at  by  the  committee  were  as  follows  : 
(1)  To  prepare  a  table  showing  the  differences  in  strength  of 
medicaments  bearing  the  same  name  in  different  Pharmacopoeias. 
(2)  To  unify  this  table. 
(3)  To  ask  that  in  future  Pharmacopoeias  the  strengths  proposed 
be  adopted,  and  attention  called  thereto  in  foot-notes. 
(4)  The  members  of  the  Congress — official  and  non-official — to 
do  all  they  can  to  get  the  strengths  adopted. 
(5)  To  ask  the  Belgian  government  to  arrange  with  other  gov- 
ernments for  a  conference  in  Brussels,  and  to  ask  all  the  members  to 
have  their  proposals  ready  to  lay  before  the  meeting  whenever  it 
may  be  called. 
A.  Tschirch  submitted.the  following  proposal  relative  to  the  Inter, 
national  Pharmacopoeia : 
(1)  A  conference  on  this  question  will  not  succeed  unless  the 
nations  most  particularly  interested  (Germany,  England,  Austria, 
