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Assembly  was  adopted,  praying  for  certain  modifications  relative  to  pharmaceutical 
chemists  in  the  medical  bill  then  pending  before  Parliament. 
The  retiring  members  of  Council,  Messrs.  F.  Senior,  A.  J.  Watt  and  J.  S. 
Abraham,  were  re-elected  for  the  next  twelve  months. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
The  International  Pharmacopoeia. — It  will  be  remembered  that  at  the  Inter- 
national Pharmaceutical  Congress,  held  at  St.  Petersburg  in  1874,  trie  Paris  Phar- 
maceutical Society  presented  the  draft  of  a  Universal  Pharmacopoeia,  which  had 
been  elaborated  at  the  request  of  the  preceding  International  Pharmaceutical  Con- 
gress at  Vienna.  This  work  was  distributed  amongst  the  delegates  for  examination 
and  correction,  and  the  reports  were  sent  to  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  at  St.  Peters- 
burg, by  which  body  it  was  to  be  finally  revised  and  printed  for  distribution  among 
the  various  pharmaceutical  societies  (see  "Amer.  Jour.  Pharm.,"  1874,  P-  4895  18/5, 
p.  474).  At  the  International  Medical  Congress,  held  in  Geneva  in  1877,  it  was 
stated  that  the  International  Pharmacopoeia  had  been  translated  into  Latin,  and 
would  in  a  few  months  be  printed  and  distributed  (Ibid  ,  1877,  P«  612).  However,, 
a  series  of  resolutions  were  adopted,  and  a  committee  was  appointed  charged  with 
the  further  consideration  of  this  subject. 
This  committee  reported  through  Prof.  Gille,  of  Brussels,  to  the  International 
Medical  Congress,  held  at  Amsterdam  in  September  last,  and  the  printed  report 
entitled,  "  Pharmacopee  nniverselle  et  uniformite  en  medecine,"  is  now  before  us.- 
It  appears  from  this  report  that  the  committee  appointed  at  Geneva  communicated 
the  action  of  the  Congress  to  the  President  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  St. 
Petersburg,  and  that  the  latter  body,  in  July  last,  returned  the  pharmacopoeia  elab- 
orated by  the  Paris  Society  to  Mr.  Mehu  without  a  word  of  explanation,  after  it  had 
in  the  preceding  March  resolved  not  to  take  part  in  the  next  International  Pharma- 
ceutical Congress,  which  was  to  meet  in  London  during  the  past  summer,  but  has 
been  postponed.  Under  these  circumstances  it  was  recommended  to,  and  adopted 
by,  the  Congress  at  Amsterdam,  that  the  committee  be  authorized  to  select  a  gov- 
ernment through  which  to  open  negotiations  with  other  governments  with  a  view  to 
the  appointment  of  delegates  to  an  International  Commission,  charged  with  the 
further  elaboration  of  the  project  already  accepted  by  pharmaceutical  congresses. 
This  commission,  it  is  proposed,  should  convene  immediately  after  the  appointments 
have  been  made,  and  the  members  should  report  every  two  years  to  their  respective 
governments  and  to  the  International  Medical  Congress.  The  Paris  Pharmaceu- 
tical Society  was  invited  to  communicate  its  draft  of  an  international  pharmacopoeia 
for  the  purpose  of  publishing  the  same  with  the  Proceedings  of  the  Congress  at 
Amsterdam,  or  as  soon  as  possible. 
The  various  recommendations  were  adopted,  and  the  committee  selected  at 
Geneva  was  increased  by  the  appointment  of  Messrs.  Sayre  of  New  York,  Decham- 
bre  of  Paris,  Ernest  Hart  of  London,  Warlomont  of  Brussels,  Guye  of  Amsterdam 
and  Pabsciano  of  Naples. 
