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International  Congresses. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharra. 
July,  1901. 
Professor  Procter  refrained  from  signing  this  report  on  account  of 
the  fact  that  the  International  Congresses  thus  far  have  only  de- 
voted themselves  "  to  correcting  abuses  that  exist  in  Europe  in  the 
laws  bearing  on  the  profession  there.  By  transferring  their  delegates 
to  this  country,  to  act  here  just  as  they  do  there,  would  be  unprac- 
ticable  and  unavailing  in  consideration  of  the  very  different  views 
and  usages  prevailing  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  the  United 
States  and  England." 
At  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  St. 
Louis,  September,  1 871,  it  was,  however,  stated  that,  although  all  the 
discussions  of  the  International  Congresses  thus  far  held  amounted 
to  very  little  to  American  pharmacists,  inasmuch  as  they  naturally 
had  been  discussing  subjects  of  particular  interest  and  application  only 
to  the  country  in  which  they  met.  If  they  should  come  here  where 
the  conditions  under  which  pharmacy  is  practised  are  essentially 
different  from  those  existing  in  Europe,  the  questions  to  be  dis- 
cussed and  the  deliberations  would  undoubtedly  be  pertinent  to 
and  in  accordance  with  these  conditions. 
The  report  of  the  committee  and  the  motion  to  invite  the  Inter- 
national Pharmaceutical  Congress  to  meet  in  the  United  States  in 
1876  was  unanimously  adopted  with  but  two  dissenting  votes,  and 
the  city  of  Philadelphia  was  chosen  as  place  of  meeting. 
In  compliance  with  these  resolutions  the  following  invitation  was 
addressed,  July  13,  1 874,  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion to  the  fourth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  at  St. 
Petersburg : 
*  *  *  In  the  year  1876  occurs  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the 
Independence  of  the  United  States  of  America.  This  historical  event  will  be 
celebrated  throughout  our  country,  and  an  international  industrial  exposition 
will  be  held  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia.    *    *  * 
It  is  more  than  probable  that  this  Industrial  Exposition  will  be  visited  by 
many  European  pharmacists,  and  that  this  occasion  will  be  a  fit  and  convenient 
opportunity  to  unite  the  delegates  of  the  pharmaceutical  societies,  throughout 
the  civilized  world,  in  council  on  the  questions  affecting  the  present  and  future 
status  of  pharmacy  among  the  nations,  or  having  a  practical  or  scientific 
importance  for  our  profession. 
The  officers  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  carrying  out 
the  resolution  of  this  association  adopted  at  its  meeting  in  St.  Louis  in  1871, 
cordially  invite  the  fourth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  to  appoint 
the  year  1876  and  the  city  of  Philadelphia  as  the  time  and  place  of  meeting  of 
the  fifth  Congress. 
