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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
{Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  December,  1903. 
that  represent  giant  strides  in  the  development  of  pharmaceutical 
chemistry,  and  all  names  that  should  be  familiar  to  all  students  in 
pharmacy. 
But  it  was  not  alone  by  the  work  of  its  own  members  that  this 
society  has  tried  to  advance  the  sciences  more  or  less  closely  related 
to  pharmacy.  It  has  also,  annually,  offered  prizes  for  the  most  sat- 
isfactory solution  of  scientific  problems.  The  intelligent  initiative 
given  by  these  proposed  questions,  not  only  directed  research  into 
timely  and  promising  channels,  but  also,  in  a  number  of  cases, 
proved  a  distinct  help  and  an  impetus  to  struggling  young  scien- 
tists, who,  without  this  timely  recognition,  might  have  directed  their 
energies  into  less  purely  scientific  channels.  Among  others,  it  is 
stated  that  the  celebrated  Pasteur,  as  a  young  man,  was  encouraged 
by  being  awarded  one  of  the  society's  prizes. 
All  honor  then  to  the  Society  of  Pharmacy  of  Paris,  and  its  illus- 
trious members,  past  and  present ;  together  they  richly  deserve  the 
felicitations  and  good-will  of  pharmacists  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 
May  the  society  continue  to  be  the  ideal  for  a  number  of  similar 
organizations  to  come,  and  may  its  members,  present  and  prospec- 
tive, continue  to  work  and  delve,  as  did  the  founders  and  their 
successors,  unselfishly  but  steadily,  for  the  benefit  of  generations 
yet  unborn. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  SOME  OF  THE  MORE  INTERESTING  ADVANCES 
IN  PHARMACY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
BY  M.  I.  WlXBERT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
With  the  close  of  the  calendar  year  it  may  be  permissible  to  take 
a  retrospect  of  the  progress  that  has  been  made  toward  solving  some 
of  the  problems  more  or  less  closely  related  to  the  practical  sciences 
involved  in  pharmacy. 
In  the  number  of  scientific  meetings  and  congresses,  the  closing 
year  has  not  been  lacking.  In  addition  to  the  usual  local  and 
national  meetings  of  well-known  pharmaceutical  and  scientific  asso- 
ciations, there  were  held,  during  the  past  year,  at  least  two  inter- 
national congresses  at  which  matters  relating  to  pharmacy  were 
discussed.    The  first  of  these,  the  fifth  International  Congress  for 
