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from  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  The  officers  of  the 
Congress,  however,  had  come  to  the  conclusion  that  a  more  accessi- 
ble country  would  be  preferable,  and  the  city  of  Brussels  was  se- 
lected for  holding  the  next  Congress  in  1884. 
SIXTH  CONGRESS  IN  BRUSSELS,    1 885. 
The  sixth  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  should  have 
been  called  to  Brussels  in  1884,  but  on  account  of  a  general  indus- 
trial exposition  taking  place  in  Antwerp  in  1885,  it  was  postponed 
to  this  year.  The  local  committee  at  Brussels  had  succeeded  in 
securing  the  interest  of  the  highest  authorities  of  the  State  in  the 
Congress,  so  that  it  was  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  pharma- 
ceutical congresses  favored  with  royal  patronage,  and  by  the  par- 
ticipation of  high  State  officers.  This  fact  was  a  novel  one,  as  well 
as  the  latitude  in  the  programme  issued  with  letters  of  invitation  by 
the  local  committee  early  in  1885.  This  proposed,  among  other 
things,  the  consideration  of  the  following  questions :  On  theo- 
retical and  applied  pharmacy ;  on  hygiene  and  public  health  ;  on 
biological  and  legal  chemistry ;  on  the  international  pharmacopoeia 
elaborated  and  to  be  presented  by  the  commission  appointed  at  the 
Congress  in  London,  in  1 88 1  ;  on  pharmaceutical  education;  on 
sophistication  of  alimentary  substances,  and,  finally,  on  potable 
waters,  their  requisite  quality,  and  the  best  methods  for  their  exam- 
ination. . 
Other  innovations  of  this  Congress  were  that  it  invited  delegates 
from  governments,  universities,  schools  of  pharmacy  and  from  phar- 
maceutical, chemical  and  hygienic  associations,  and  all  those  inter- 
ested in  the  subjects  pertaining  to  pharmacy  in  its  broadest  scope, 
who  desire  to  attend  the  meeting  and  pay  a  fee  of  10  francs  ($2)  for 
admittance.  Another  novel  feature  was  that  all  questions  brought 
for  discussion  before  the  Congress  should  first  be  considered  and 
reported  by  sections. 
The  Congress  convened  at  its  first  meeting  in  Brussels,  August 
31,  1885.  It  was  opened,  on  behalf  of  the  King  of  Belgium,  by 
his  representative,  the  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs,  Prince  Caraman- 
Chimay.  It  was  of  all  the  preceding  pharmaceutical  congresses  the 
most  frequented  one,  consisting  of  approximately  300  delegates  and 
visitors,  representing  twenty-three  countries  and  seventy-two 
societies,  whilst  at  the  meetings  in  Vienna  only  eight  countries,  at 
