458  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress.  {A^p,5erS' 
low  and  red  cinchona  bark,  and  described  their  therapeutic  proper- 
ties, which  latter  information  received  splendid  confirmation  from 
Algeria.  In  1827  the  Montyon  prize  was  awarded  to  them,  and 
Caventou  filled  with  distinction  the  chair  ot  toxicology  in  the  Paris 
School  of  Pharmacy.  M.  Moissan  concluded  by  saying  :  "  We  have 
associated  the  two  savants  on  the  same  pedestal.  We  have  rendered 
homage  to  Bertrand  Pelletier  and  his  son  Joseph  ;  we  render  hom- 
age to  Joseph  Caventou  and  his  son  Eugene,  our  dear  colleague, 
whom  we  have  here  amongst  us  this  morning." 
M.  Edmond  Lepelletier,  Municipal  Councillor,  in  the  name  of  the 
city,  thanked  those  who  had  given  Paris  the  handsome  monument. 
The  statue-mania  had  been  severely  criticised,  he  said,  but  their  best 
answer  was  only  to  erect  statues  to  glorious  and  beneficent  men  like 
Caventou  and  Pelletier.  The  schoolboy,  returning  from  his  studies, 
would  ask  why  these  men  figured  thus  in  a  public  place,  and  he 
would  receive  the  explanation  and  look  upon  the  figures  with  re- 
spect and  admiration.  Now-a-days,  when  Africa  was  being  divided 
among  the  civilized  nations,  it  was  well  to  remember  that  Pelletier 
and  Caventou,  the  discoverers  of  quinine,  were  the  benefactors  of 
the  explorers  and  military  men  who  had  opened  up  the  Dark 
Country  to  civilization.  Statues  were  raised  to  generals  and  con- 
querors— their  fame  was  but  temporary — the  only  lasting  conquests 
were  those  of  science.  He  saluted  these  men,  whose  memory  was 
henceforth  draped  in  imperishable  bronze. 
M.  de  Mazieres  spoke  in  the  name  of  the  Parisian  pharmacists. 
This,  he  said,  was  the  first  public  statue  erected  to  a  pharmacist  at 
Paris,  or  even  elsewhere.  It  was  true  that  Parmentier  had  his  statue 
atNeuilly,  andPlanchon  at  Montpellier,  but  the  one  was  erected  in 
honor  of  the  introducer  of  the  potato  into  France,  the  other  was  for 
the  services  Planchon  had  rendered  to  the  wine-growers.  A  few 
steps  away  were  the  statues  of  Vauquelin  and  Parmentier,  but  they 
were  timidly  placed  in  the  forecourt  of  the  School  of  Pharmacy — they 
had  not  dared  to  place  them  in  the  public  streets.  And  why  this 
absence  of  pharmacists'  statues  ?  Were  they  less  worthy,  less  useful 
than  others  ?  By  no  means.  But  pharmacists  were  modest  folk. 
Kept  at  their  homes  by  their  business,  mixing  little  with  the  outside 
world,  their  exaggerated  modesty  prevented  them  from  being  recog- 
nized by  the  public.  But  is  it  so  difficult  to  show  the  public  that  a 
pharmacist,  instead  of  being  a  little  retail  shopkeeper,  is  a  man  of 
