154       Sixth  lnternatio7ial  Pharmaceutical  Congress. 
ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION,  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF 
PHARMACY. 
The  last  social  meeting  of  the  present  terra  was  held  in  the  Museum  of 
the  College  February  10,  C.  C.  Meyer,  Ph.G.,  occupying  the  chair. 
Rev.  R.  B.  Westbrook,  D.  D.,  delivered  an  interesting  lecture  on  "The 
origin  of  some  familiar  things,"  including  a  number  of  matters  of  special 
interest  to  the  apothecary. 
John  E.  Cook,  Ph.G.,  read  two  papers  entitled  "  How  to  experiment  in 
Natural  Philosophy,"  and  "  Chlorophyll,"  dwelling  in  the  latter  upon  the 
conditions  under  which  the  green  color  is  produced,  and  upon  various 
researches  into  its  composition. 
SIXTH    INTERNATIONAL  PHARMACEUTICAL 
CONGRESS. 
Under  the  High  Protection  of  His  Majesty  the  King  of  the  Belgians, 
And  the  Honorary  Presidency  of  the  Minister  of  the  Interior  and  of  Public 
Instruction,  and  the  Honorary  Vice-Presidency  of  the  Burgomaster  of 
the  City  of  Brussels. 
General  Rules  of  the  Congress. 
Object  of  the  Congress. 
Art.  1.  The  Sixth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  will  be  held  in 
Brussels  from  the  31st  of  August  to  the  6th  of  September,  1885. 
Art.  2.  The  object  of  the  Congress  is  to  follow  up  the  work  commenced  in 
1865  at  Brunswick,  and  continued  in  1867  at  Paris,  in  1869  at  Vienna,  in 
1874  at  St.  Petersburg,  and  in  1881  at  London. 
The  Congress  will  be  able  to  discuss  all  questions  which  are  connected 
with  the  profession  of  the  pharmacist,  the  progress  of  the  pharmaceutical 
sciences  and  their  application  to  hygiene. 
It  [will  exclude  from  its  business  all  that  is  foreign  to  these  subjects. 
Governments,  academies,  universities  and  schools  of  pharmacy,  chemistry, 
hygiene,  etc.,  are  invited  to  lend  their  co-operation  in  this  work  and  to 
cause  themselves  to  be  represented  in  the  Congress  by  delegates. 
Business  of  the  Congress. 
Art.  3.  The  Congress  will  group  in  four  sections  all  the  questions  which 
shall  be  submitted  to  it  by  pharmaceutical  societies  or  persons  who  have 
connected  themselves  with  the  Congress, 
(a).  Professional  questions. 
(6).  Questions  of  theoretical  or  practical  pharmacy. 
(c)  .  Questions  of  chemistry  in  its  relations  with  hygiene  and  the 
public  health. 
(d)  .  Questions  relative  to  applied,  biological  and  legal  chemistry. 
