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International  Conference, 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I    January,  1903. 
In  order  to  secure  the  permanency  which  is  essential  for  the  suc- 
cessful continuance  and  further  development  of  the  work  of  the 
Conference,  the  following  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted : 
"  The  Conference  expresses  the  desire  that  the  Belgian  Govern- 
ment should  establish  in  Brussels  a  permanent  bureau,  and  that  the 
government  of  each  country  represented  should  designate  a  corre- 
spondent, preferably  a  member  of  its  Pharmacopoeia  Committee, 
with  whom  the  secretary  might  correspond  directly  for  purposes  of 
information  and  intercommunication,  and  thus  contribute  to  the 
attainment  of  general  pharmacopceial  uniformity.  This  permanent 
institution  might  be  styled  the  Secretariat  international  pour  V unifi- 
cation des  pharmacopees" 
In  connection  with  this  account  of  the  more  serious  work  of  the 
Conference,  it  is  deemed  proper,  as  it  is  presumably  not  without 
interest,  to  refer  to  the  extremely  cordial  reception  extended  by  the 
members  of  the  Belgian  committee,  to  their  generous  hospitality, 
and  to  their  thoughtfulness  in  every  arrangement  that  could  render 
the  visit  of  the  delegates  a  pleasant  one.  Excursions  were  made  to 
Ghent  and  Louvain,  where  the  universities  and  other  places  of  inter- 
est were  visited  ;  to  the  Royal  Chateau  at  Laeken,  with  which  are 
connected  large  conservatories  containing  magnificent  palms  and 
other  tropical  plants  ;  and  to  the  Congo  Museum  in  the  pretty 
village  of  Tervueren.  By  no  means  least  in  interest  was  a  visit  to 
the  Solvay  Institute,  which,  in  addition  to  the  laboratories  for  bio- 
logical and  bacteriological  work,  contains  a  room  designed  as  a 
memorial  of  the  distinguished  Belgian  chemist,  Stas.  In  it  are  con- 
tained his  library,  note-books,  and  the  medals  awarded  him,  together 
with  many  extremely  valuable  and  interesting  pieces  of  apparatus 
and  specimens  illustrative  of  his  work,  especially  in  connection  with 
the  determination  of  atomic  weights.  A  banquet  had  been  arranged 
tor  the  closing  day  of  the  Conference,  but  was  abandoned  in  conse- 
quence of  the  lamented  death  of  the  Queen  of  the  Belgians  on  the 
preceding  evening. 
No  better  expression  of  the  sentiments  of  the  delegates  could  be 
given  than  is  contained  in  the  closing  words  of  the  address  delivered 
on  their  behalf  to  the  organizers  and  committee  of  the  conference 
by  Professor  Binz,  of  Bonn : 
"  Et  ainsi  nous  nous  trouvons  devant  cette  belle  fin  qui  couronne 
les  premieres  assises  de  notre  conference.    Je  resume  les  remer- 
