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International  Congresses. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pham  . 
1  September,  1901. 
ing  were  designated  :  Professors  of  universities,  polytechnic  schools 
and  colleges,  professors  of  physical  and  natural  sciences  of  any 
school,  pharmacists  and  chemists  delegated  by  pharmaceutical  asso- 
ciations or  by  sanitary  boards,  members  of  such  boards,  assistants 
of  institutes,  laboratories  or  museums  devoted  to  physical  and 
natural  sciences,  medicine  or  pharmacy,  chemists,  directors  and 
assistants  of  municipal  laboratories,  proprietors  and  directors  of  all 
laboratories  for  public  service,  proprietors  and  directors  of  chemical 
industrial  establishments  and  chemists  employed  in  such. 
As  stated  on  pages  324  and  379  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation had  twice  extended  an  invitation  to  the  congress  to  meet  in 
the  United  States,  in  1874  and  in  1881.  At  this  juncture  of  delay 
and  uncertainty,  and  in  consideration  of  the  prospective  World's 
Fair  in  Chicago  in  1893,  the  association  passed  at  its  meeting  in 
Old  Point  Comfort  in  Virginia,  September  12,  1890,  the  resolution 
"  that  it  would  be  desirable  that  the  International  Pharmaceutical 
Congress  meet  in  Chicago  in  1893,  that  a  hearty  invitation  be  ex- 
tended to  the  pharmacists  of  all  countries  to  be  present  at  the  meet- 
ing of  this  association  in  1893  J  anc*  that  a  committee  be  appointed 
to  report  upon  the  matter  at  a  future  meeting." 
At  the  next  meeting  of  the  association,  in  New  Orleans  in  April, 
1 89 1,  the  following  local  committee  to  co-operate  with  the  World's 
Fair  Auxiliary  in  the  work  of  preparing  for  an  International  Phar- 
maceutical Congress  was  elected  :  Messrs.  O.  Oldberg,  E.  H.  Sargent, 
A.  E.  Ebert,  D.  R.  Dyche,  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  all  in  Chicago. 
Very  likely  in  consequence  of  the  action  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  in  its  meetings  in  1890  and  1 891  the 
following  circular  letter  was  issued  on  May  15,  1 89 [  : 
The  directors  and  proprietors  of  Italian  pharmacies,  especially  those  of  the 
northern  provinces  of  the  Kingdom,  perturbed  by  the  changes  of  the  material 
conditions  of  phaimacy,  brought  about  by  a  new  law  of  December  22,  188S,  for 
the  protection  of  public  hygiene  and  sanitation,  and  by  legal  contests  with  the 
authorities  over  the  new  and  stringent  exactments,  have  not  been  able  to  co- 
operate towards  the  success  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Congress  in  Milan,  to  the 
extent  they  promised  before  the  new  law  went  into  effect. 
Notwithstanding  these  difficulties,  the  Committee  on  Organization  would 
have  persevered  in  its  efforts,  had  it  not  been  for  the  very  discouragingly 
small  number  of  adherences  received,  every  hope  of  success  being  thus  cut  off. 
Despite  the  announcements  and  invitations  made  in  the  principal  Italian  and 
foreign  periodicals,  and  the  25,000  circulars  forwarded,  the  committee  received 
scarcely  thirty  assents. 
