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when  we  are  compelled  to  go  to  press,  contain  but  meagre  accounts  of  the 
transactions  of  this  assemblage  at  St.  Petersburg.  The  following  has  been 
culled  from  the  different  publications,  and  will,  if  possible,  be  followed,  in  our 
next  issue,  by  a  more  extended  account. 
Besides  the  pharmacists  of  St.  Petersburg,  there  were  delegates  present 
from  Prague,  two;  Moscow,  three;  Riga,  one;  Odessa,  one;  Kasan,  one  j 
England,  two;  Austria,  two;  Denmark,  two,  and  France,  one.  It  will  be  ob- 
served that  neither  Norway,  Sweden,  Germany,  Holland,  Belgium,  nor  the 
States  of  Southern  Europe,  were  represented.  Mr.  A.  Yon  Waldheim  (Vienna) 
was  elected  President,  Messrs.  Madson  (Copenhagen)  and  Trapp  (St.  Peters- 
burg) Yice- Presidents,  and  Messrs.  Mehu  (Paris),  Sutton  (London),  Janau- 
scheck  (Prague),  and  Rennard  (St.  Petersburg),  Secretaries.  All  the  delegates, 
with  the  exception  of  those  from  EnglaDd  and  France,  speaking  German  with 
facility,  that  language  was  adopted  as  the  "  business  language." 
Questions  1,  2  and  4  were  remitted  to  the  consideration  of  Committees,  while 
question  3  (see  page  205  of  our  April  number)  was  forthwith  discussed  and 
disposed  of  by  the  following  resolution,  adopted  unanimously  : 
It  is  very  desirable  that  the  professorships  of  pharmacy  should  be  held  by 
pharmacists,  and  it  is  further  desirable  that,  where  circumstances  will  allow, 
there  should  be  two  chairs,  one  for  materia  medica  and  one  for  pharmaceutical 
chemistry. 
The  reports  of  the  Committees  were  discussed  at  the  second  and  third  sessions 
and  the  opinion  of  the  Congress  expressed  in  resolutions,  declaring — 
Ad.  1.  That  the  assistant  should  be  held  responsible  for  all  errors  committed 
by  him  in  the  laboratory  or  in  the  store;  that  the  proprietor  be  responsible  for 
the  purity  of  the  drugs,  for  the  management  of  the  business,  and  for  the  errors 
of  his  apprentices. 
Ad.  2.  That  the  inspection  of  pharmacies  should  be  conducted  by  two  experts 
qualified  by  the  State ;  one  of  whom,  who  has  to  examine  the  medicaments  aud 
the  general  business  management,  should  be  an  apothecary,  actively  engaged 
in  business;  and  that  it  is  desirable  that  he  should  be  elected  by  the  apothe- 
caries. 
Ad.  4.  The  Universal  Pharmacopoeia  presented  by  Dr.  Mehu  in  the  name  of 
the  Paris  Pharmaceutical  Society,  was  referred  to  a  Committee,  charged  with 
examining  the  same  and  then  sending  it  to  all  pharmaceutical  societies  for 
examination  and  report. 
The  place  of  meeting  of  the  fifth  Congress,  for  which  Philadelphia  and 
London  have  been  proposed,  has  not  yet  been  determined  on. 
(Editorial  Department 
The  Twenty-second  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  of  the  Proceedings  of  which  we  give  a  full  account  elsewhere, 
has  been  quite  successful,  in  point  of  numbers  as  well  as  in  regard  to  the  papers 
