Am'juTy?i9oiarm'}  International  Congresses.  319 
can  Pharmaceutical  Association,  although  invited  in  time,  were  not 
represented  at  this  first  International  Congress.  The  Council  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain  rendered  at  its  meeting, 
August  2,  1865,  the  following  response  to  the  invitation  received: 
"Whilst  this  Society  estimates  highly  the  proposed  objects  of  holding  an 
international  conference  of  pharmacists,  and  would  gladly  give  any  facilities  in 
its  power  to  their  prosecution,  it  is  scarcely  within  its  functions  as  a  corporate 
body  to  appoint  representatives  thereto.  We  would,  however,  draw  the  atten- 
tion of  the  Committee  on  Arrangements  to  a  voluntary  association  existing  in 
this  country  under  the  title  '  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference,'  one  of  whose 
objects  is  a  correspondence  with  societies  with  similar  aims  in  other  countries, 
to  whom  such  a  communication  may  be  addressed.  This  being  done,  the 
Pharmaceutical  Conference  would  probably  arrange,  if  practicable,  to  co-op- 
erate in  some  way  at  a  future  meeting."* 
SECOND  CONGRESS  IN  PARIS,  1867. 
The  committee  elected  at  the  Congress  in  Brunswick,  selected 
Paris  as  the  place  for  holding  the  second  meeting  and  confided  all 
arrangements  to  the  Society  of  Pharmacy  of  Paris.  The  committee 
of  this  society  addressed,  early  in  1867,  an  invitation  to  and  pro- 
gramme for,  the  Congress  to  be  held  on  August  21-25,1867,  at 
the  time  of  the  second  World's  Fair  in  Paris. 
The  programme  argues  "  that  pharmacy  in  Europe  at  this  time 
is  in  an  unhealthy  and  critical  condition,  not  less  injurious  to  the  true 
interests  of  the  public  than  to  those  of  the  profession  itself.  This 
critical  situation  has  been  explained  by  the  Congress  of  Brunswick, 
and  that  body  has  given  the  results  of  its  deliberations  in  the  form 
of  resolutions. 
"  In  consonance  with  the  present  efforts  of  various  countries  to 
attain  to  an  international  uniform  type  in  weights,  measures,  mon- 
eys, etc.,  the  Congress  will  naturally  be  led  to  recognize  the  neces- 
sity of  a  code  or  legal  formulary  as  a  guide  to  the  pharmacists  of 
all  countries.  This  code  will  insure  uniformity  of  composition  and 
strength  in  the  commonly  used  medicines,  particularly  the  more 
potent  ones." 
The  Committee  of  Organization  therefore  proposes  the  following 
questions  to  be  considered  at  the  meeting  of  the  Congress  of  1867. 
(1)  What  character  should  be  attributed  to  the  pharmacist?  What  are  the 
functions  he  should  perform  and  what  conditions  ought  he  to  accomplish  in 
order  to  acquit  himself  of  his  professional  obligations  ? 
* Pharmaceutical  Journal  and  Transactions,  1865-1866,  p.  93, 
