562 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
\  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\  December,  1913. 
sections  of  the  country. — The  Druggists'  Circular,  191 3,  v.  57,  pp. 
704-705. 
Conference  of  Food  and  Drug  Officials. — The  conference  of  Fed- 
eral and  State  officials  interested  in  the  enforcement  of  pure  food 
and  drug  laws  which  was  held  in  the  City  of  Washington  on  Novem- 
ber 14  and  15,  should  have  a  stimulating  influence  on  the  enforce- 
ment of  pure  drug  laws  as  well  as  being  the  incentive  for  more  con- 
certed efforts  in  the  enforcement  of  pure  food  laws.  The  conference 
was  called  as  the  result  of  a  resolution  adopted  by  the  Association  of 
State  and  National  Food  and  Dairy  Departments  for  the  purpose 
of  providing  for  active  co-operation  between  State  and  National 
officials  in  the  development  of  methods  of  analysis,  the  promulgation 
of  standards  and  the  proper  enforcement  of  existing  laws. 
International  Pharmacy  Congresses. — Editorial :  "  One  of  the 
pharmaceutical  surprises  of  the  present  time  is  the  persistence  of  the 
International  Congress  of  Pharmacy.  Americans,  Britons  and  Teu- 
tons have  evidenced  a  willingness  that  these  Congresses  should  die, 
but  their  pharmaceutical  confreres  of  Gallic  or  Latin  origin  have 
persistently  ignored  this  pessimistic  attitude.  The  principal  purpose 
of  the  origin  of  the  International  Congresses  was  accomplished  by 
the  signature  at  Brussels  on  November  29,  1906,  of  the  international 
agreement  respecting  the  unification  of  pharmacopoeial  formulas 
for  potent  drugs,  which  had  been  arrived  at  by  the  International 
Conference  on  the  subject  which  had  been  held  there  in  1902.  De- 
spite the  expectation  that  this  international  treaty  would  ring  the 
death-knell  of  the  International  Congresses  of  Pharmacy,  it  has 
proved  but  an  incentive  in  the  promulgation  of  further  meetings  " 
of  this  kind.  -  * 
The  accomplishments  of  the  several  Congresses  are  briefly  re- 
viewed, and  regarding  the  Seventh  Congress  held  in  Chicago  in  1893, 
during  the  week  commencing  August  21,  the  Editor  says,  "  The  meet- 
ing was,  from  the  international  point  of  view,  a  trifle  half-hearted, 
but  good  as  far  as  it  went." — Chem.  &  Drug.,  1913,  v.  83,  pp.  394- 
395,  424-426. 
The  Eleventh  International  Congress  of  Pharmacy  held  at  Sche- 
veningen  and  Leyden,  Sept.  17-21,  1913,  was  well  attended  and 
appears  to  have  been  successful,  though  the  attendance  was  largely 
confined  to  pharmacists  from  Holland,  Belgium  and  France.  English 
speaking  countries  were  only  sparingly  represented ;  the  United 
States  having  two  delegates,  Prof.  J.  P.  Remington,  of  Philadelphia, 
