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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Sept.,  1891. 
The  solution  of  an  arithmetical  problem,  as  contained  in  a  letter  recently- 
received,  will  be  appreciated  by  our  readers,  we  think  ;  it  is  as  follows  :  "I 
asked  whether  the  time  was  four  years,  counting  365  days  to  the  year,  or  do 
you.  mean  that  your  year's  time  is  a  certain  portion  of  a  year  of  365  days.  I 
understand  it  this  way  :  the  two  winfifer  terms  for  Junior  and  Senior  is  counted 
two  years.  Six  months  during  vacation  or  between  junior  and  senior  terms, 
and  six  months'  experience  is  required  before  entering  College.  These  2  six 
months  is  equivalent  to  2  years  ;  hence,  the  Junior  and  Senior  term,  and  these 
2  six  months  are  equivalent  to  4  years." 
International  Pharmaceutical  Congress. — The  following  is  a  translation  of  a 
circular  letter  received  some  time  ago,  and  explains  itself : 
SEVENTH  INTERNATIONAL  PHARMACEUTICAL,  CONGRESS  IN 
Honorable  Colleagues : 
The  directors  and  proprietors  of  Italian  pharmacies,  especially  those  of  the 
northern  provinces  of  the  kingdom,  perturbed  by  the  changes  in  the  conditions 
of  practice  and  property,  brought  about  by  the  new  law  of  December  22,  1888, 
for  the  protection  of  public  hygiene  and  sanitation,  and,  by  legal  contests  with 
the  Government  over  the  new  exactments,  in  defence  of  their  rights,  have  not 
been  able  to  cooperate  towards  the  success  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Congress  in 
Milan,  to  the  extent  they  promised  before  the  new  law,  affecting  their  interests 
so  strongly,  went  into  effect. 
Notwithstanding  these  difficulties  the  Committee  on  Organization  would  have 
persevered  in  the  undertaking,  had  it  not  been  for  the  fact  of  the  very  discour- 
agingly  small  number  of  adherences  received,  thus  cutting  off  every  hope  of 
success.  Despite  the  announcements  and  invitations  made  in  the  principal 
foreign  and  Italian  journals  and  the  25,000  circulars  forwarded,  the  Committee 
received  scarcely  thirty  assents  (adesioni). 
After  that  the  Committee  was  compelled  to  yield  to  the  opinion  expressed  by 
the  Chemico-Pharmaceutical  Association  of  Lombardy,  charged  by  the  Con- 
gress of  Brussels  with  promoting  the  reunion  at  Milan,  that  the  present  was 
inopportune  for  the  convocation  in  Milan,  of  the  Seventh  Pharmaceutical  Con- 
gress, owing  to  the  grave  crisis  through  which  the  Italian  pharmacists  are  now 
passing,  as  the  result  of  carrying  into  effect  the  new  law  previously  mentioned. 
The  Committee,  therefore,  resolved  to  postpone  the  convocation  of  the  Con- 
gress to  a  more  opportune  time,  and  meanwhile  expresses  the  warmest  thanks 
to  all  colleagues  and  scientists  who  have  rendered  assistance. 
For  the  Committee  on  Organization, 
The  President :  Sen.  Comm.  Prof.  Staniseao  Cannizzaro. 
MILAN. 
committee  ox  organization, 
via  fiori  oscuri,  13. 
May  15,  1891. 
The  Vice-Presidents  : 
Comm.  Prof.  Dioscoride  Vitau, 
Dr.  Giuseppe  Pessina. 
The  Secretaries  : 
Dr.  Arturo  Castoedi, 
Chim.  Far.  Vittorio  Venturini. 
