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dements  que  les  delegues  etrangers  doivent  aux  collegues  beiges  en 
leur  disant ;  au  revoir  pour  continuer  l'ceuvre  utile  que  nous  venons 
de  commencer,  au  revoir  sous  la  meme  presidence  et  le  meme  secre- 
tariat ;  au  revoir  dans  la  ville  natale  d'Andre  Vesale,  sous  V augurium 
de  ses  manes  augustes.  Quod  felix  faustumque  summum  numen  esse 
Meat." 
The  hope  so  felicitously  expressed  can,  alas,  not  be  fully  realized, 
for  but  a  week  after  the  close  of  the  Conference  the  sad  news  was 
chronicled  of  the  death  of  one  of  the  most  active  ot  the  delegates — 
Professor  Stokvis,  of  the  University  of  Amsterdam.  His  genial 
temperament,  nobility  of  character,  and  rare  scholarly  attainments 
inspired  all  who  knew  him  with  a  feeling  of  sincere  regard. 
Notwithstanding  the  mutations  that  time  must  bring  before 
another  International  Conference  of  this  character  may  be  con- 
vened, it  is  believed  that  the  results  thus  far  attained  will  afford 
such  a  measure  of  encouragement  as  to  ensure  a  continuance  of  the 
work,  and  thus  lead  eventually  to  a  more  complete  realization  of  its 
ideals. 
London,  December,  1902. 
INTERNATIONAL  STANDARDS. 
By  M.  I.  Wixbert, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
For  more  than  thirty-five  years  a  proposed  International  Pharma- 
copoeia has  attracted  the  attention  of  leading  men  in  the  medical 
and  pharmaceutical  professions  of  the  civilized  world. 
The  history  of  the  various  International  Congresses  and  that  of 
the  accompanying  attempts  that  were  made  to  formulate  an  accept- 
able International  Pharmacopoeia  has  been  ably  recorded  in  several 
of  the  leading  pharmaceutical  journals.  A  very  exhaustive  and 
interesting  account,  by  Frederick  Hoffman,  now  of  Berlin,  Germany, 
will  be  found  in  the  volume  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy 
for  1901. 
The  reason  why  these  earlier  attempts  at  securing  uniformity  were 
failures  is  no  doubt  to  be  found  in  the  fact  that  the  leading  spirits, 
in  the  International  Congresses,  essayed  to  do  too  much.  The 
original  idea,  and  the  ©ne  that  was  clung  to  tenaciously  for  a  number 
of  years,  was  to  formulate  an  authoritative  work  that  would  include 
