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Pharmaceutical  Events  in  i8yo. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\  August,  1920. 
July  19 — France  declares  war  on  Prussia  and  the  Franco-German 
war  began. 
Dec.  25. — Mount  Cenis  tunnel  completed  and  becomes  the  prin- 
cipal route  of  transportation,  also  of  drugs  between  Italy  and  West- 
ern Europe. 
EVENTS  PHARMACEUTICAL,  ETC. 
Above  all  the  New  Jersey  Pharmacuetical  Association  was 
founded  in  1870  and  has  been  in  existence  uninterruptedly  ever 
since.  This  event  is  undoubtedly  presented  in  another  paper  at 
the  Golden  Jubilee. 
In  the  same  year  the  West  Virginia  and  also  the  Vermont  State 
Pharmaceutical  Associations  were  formed.  As  a  matter  of  record 
I  might  mention  that  the  California  Pharmaceutical  Association 
was  established  in  1869  and  the  one  of  Maine  in  1867. 
Allgemeiner  Deutscher  Pharmazeuten  Verein,  the  association 
of  German  drug  clerks,  was  constituted  on  January  4,  1870.  In 
1900  its  name  was  changed  to  Pharmazeutische  Vereinigung. 
The  U.  S.  P.  Convention,  or  as  it  was  then  called.  National  Con- 
vention of  1870  for  Revising  the  Pharmacopoeia,  was  held  in  Wash- 
ington on  May  4.  In  the  committee  of  15  only  4  pharmacists  were 
represented,  namely,  John  M.  Maisch,  of  Philadelphia,  Albert  E. 
Ebert,  of  Chicago,  J.  R.  Moore,  of  Baltimore,  and  G.  F.  H.  Markoe, 
of  Boston. 
Anton  Schiirer  von  Waldheim  acts  as  representative  and  later 
as  director  of  the  Allgemeimer  Oesterreichischer  Apotheker  Verein, 
the  Austrian  Pharmaceutical  Society.  He  gained  international 
fame  by  his  project  of  an  International  Pharmacopoeia,  for  which  he 
submitted  a  draft  at  the  International  Congress  of  Pharmacy  at 
Brussels  in  1885. 
Rhode  Island  Pharmacy  Law  was  enacted. 
Dr.  William  Simon  (1844-19 16)  professor  of  chemistry  in  Balti- 
more and  well  known  to  the  pharmaceutical  and  medical  and  dental 
professions,  came  to  the  United  States  from  Germany. 
Frederick  August  Flueckiger,  pharmacist,  chemist,  and  above 
all  pharmacognosist,  was  appointed  extraordinary  professor  at  the 
University  of  Bern,  Switzerland. 
Daniel  Hanbury,  the  English  pharmacognosist,  retires  from  re- 
tail pharmacy  in  London.  The  Hanbury  medal  and  Fliickiger- 
Hanbury's  Pharmacographia  are  living  testimonials. 
