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International  Congresses. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
July,  1901. 
have  reached  such  an  amplitude  that  medical  men  on  the  average 
cannot  any  more  enter  upon  the  study  of  pharmaceutical  branches, 
that,  therefore,  the  pharmacist  should  replace  the  physician  in  the 
conduct  and  regulation  of  purely  pharmaceutical  affairs.  Jf  the 
governments  have  any  doubt  in  their  professional  ability  to  do  so, 
they  should  raise  the  standard  of  pharmaceutical  education  and  the 
requirements  at  the  State  examinations. 
(4)  What  should  be  done  to  attain  to  the  greatest  possible  uni- 
formity in  the  composition  and  strength  of  the  pharmacopceial 
preparations  ? — It  was  stated  that  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of 
Paris  had  volunteered  to  undertake  the  compilation  of  a  compara- 
tive conspectus  showing  side  by  side  the  differences  existing  in  the 
various  pharmacopoeias  in  regard  to  the  composition  and  relative 
strength  of  the  identical  galenical  preparations  in  the  various 
countries  in  order  to  initiate  steps  to  have  the  pharmacopoeias 
adopt  uniform  formulae  in  course  of  time.  This  work  has  been 
commenced  and  will  be  submitted  to  the  next  Congress. 
(5)  What  methods  are  best  for  assaying  the  organic  alkaloidal 
drugs? — This  question  was  dropped  as  hardly  pertaining  to  the 
present  objects  of  the  Congress.  It  was,  however,  acknowledged 
that  the  methods  for  ascertaining  the  proportion  of  the  active 
principles  of  drugs  prescribed  in  the  pharmacopoeias  needed 
improvements  and  that  this  matter  belonged  to  the  domain  of  the 
committees  of  pharmacopceial  revision. 
In  conclusion  it  was  resolved  that  the  President  may  prepare  a 
report  on  the  resolutions  of  the  Congress  and  communicate  this 
report  to  the  governments  of  those  countries  who  were  represented 
by  delegates. 
The  proposition  was  made  and  endorsed  to  hold  the  fourth  Inter- 
national Pharmaceutical  Congress  after  the  lapse  of  three  years. 
The  presidents  of  the  National  Pharmaceutical  Associations  of 
Austria,  Germany,  Russia,  and  France  were  delegated  as  a-  com- 
mittee for  selecting  the  place  of  the  meeting  and  making  in  time, 
the  proper  arrangements  for  such  a  meeting.  The  delegate  from 
Prussia  tendered  an  invitation  to  hold  this  in  St.  Petersburg. 
THE  FIRST  MOVE  TO  INVITE  THE  CONGRESS  TO  HOLD  A    MEETING  IN 
THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA. 
In  consequence  of  the  Franco-German  war  in  1869  and  1870  the 
