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Art.  4.  Four  questions  will  be  submitted  by  the  Committee  of  Organiza- 
tion for  discussion  in  the  full  general  meetings.    These  are : 
P.  Examination  of  the  scheme  of  an  International  Pharmacopoeia  elat- 
orated  by  the  Commission  nominated  at  the  time  of  the  last  Congress  in 
London. 
2^  Pharmaceutical  Education  :  The  attainments  that  should  be  prelimi- 
nary to  pharmaceutical  studies  :  -the  scientific  pharmaceutical  studies  ;  the 
professional  applications. 
3°.  Sophistications  of  alimentary  substances:  legislation,  administrative 
service,  etc. 
4°.  Potable  waters  :  The  characters  of  potable  waters.  The  best  practical 
processes,  in  the  actual  state  of  science,  to  be  recommended  for  the  verifica- 
tion of  these  characters.  • 
Art.  5.  The  Congress  will  pursue  its  objects  by  means  of  (a)  discussions 
in  meetings  ;  (b)  the  publication  of  its  transactions  ;  (c)  conferences  or  ex- 
perimental demonstrations  which  may  be  organized  during  the  continuance 
of  the  Congress. 
The  Sessions. 
Art.  6.  The  Congress  will  last  during  six  days.  There  wijl  be  two  sittings 
each  day.  The  morning  will  be  devoted  to  the  meetings  of  the  sections ; 
the  afternoons  to  the  general  meetings. 
Art.  7.  Independently  of  the  sittings  of  the  sections  and  the  general  meet- 
ings there  will  be  two  special  reunions  :  one  at  the  opening  and  the  other  at 
the  close.  In  the  first  the  Committee  of  Organization  will  proceed  to  the 
nomination  of  the  definite  committee  of  the  Congress  and  the  committees 
of  the  sections ;  in  the  second  it  will  give  an  account  of  all  the  business 
transacted. 
Art.  8.  The  sections  will  discuss  the  questions  set  down  on  their  orders  of 
the  day  by  the  Committee  of  Organization.  During  the  continuance  of  the 
Congress,  however,  other  questions  may  be  introduced  at  the  close  of  the 
orders  of  the  day  of  the  sections  upon  the  initiative  of  the  members  and 
with  the  consent  of  the  committees. 
Art.  9.  In  the  general  meetings  the  discussions  will  be  devoted  to  reports 
prepared  beforehand.  In  the  sections  they  will  turn  upon  the  communica- 
tions presented  by  the  members  of  the  Congress. 
These  reports  or  communications  may  consist  in  expositions  of  facts  or  of 
points  of  doctrine.  Those  who  bring  them  forward  will  assume  the  respon- 
sibility for  them. 
Except  by  authorization  of  the  meeting  the  same  speaker  will  not  be  able 
to  speak  more  than  twice  upon  the  same  subject,  and  the  length  of  speeches, 
readings  of  communications,  memoirs,  etc.,  will  not  be  allowed  to  exceed 
fifteen  minutes.    This  rule  is  not  applicable  to  the  reporters. 
No  memoir  already  published  or  communicated  to  a  scientific  society  will 
be  allowed  to  be  read  at  a  sitting. 
Art.  10.  Although  the  sessions  will  be  conducted  in  the  French  language, 
the  speakers  will  have  liberty  of  choice  as  to  language  for  their  speeches  or 
communications.  In  this  case,  the  members  who  do  not  express  themselves 
in  French  will  remit  an  entire  translation  or  a  summary  of  their  speeches 
