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International  Congresses. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  September,  1901. 
Since  we  do  not  know  whether  the  Italian  conmittee  will  convene  the 
Ssventh  International  Congress,  we  have  confirmed  to  the  same  your  decision, 
and  have  requested  the  committee,  in  case  the  pharmacists  are  not  to  be  con- 
vened at  Milan,  to  cede  to  you  the  powers  received  from  the  International  Con- 
gress of  1885. 
[Signed]  D.  A.  Van  Bastelaer, 
President. 
E.  Van  de  Vyvere, 
General  Secretary. 
Brussels,  November  26,  1891. 
Early  in  1893,  the  presiding  officers  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  and  the  local  committee  on  the  Seventh  Inter- 
national Pharmaceutical  Congress  appointed  by  the  Association, 
issued  separately  the  following  circular  letters  of  invitation  in  three 
languages,  to  the  pharmaceutical  societies  and  other  organized 
bodies  of  pharmacists,  as  well  as  to  the  pharmacists  of  all  countries. 
Philadelphia,  March  30,  1893. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  had  extended  an  invitation  to 
the  Third  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress,  held  at  St.  Petersburg,  in 
1874,  to  call  the  Fourth  Congress  in  Philadelphia,  in  1876,  during  the  Centen- 
nial Exposition  ;  but  the  selection  of  a  city  in  the  United  States  was  deemed 
unadvisable  at  that  time. 
After  it  had  been  decided  that  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  should  be 
held  in  the  city  of  Chicago  in  1893,  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
again  invited  the  pharmaceutical  congress  to  meet  in  this  country.  The  Ital- 
ian Committee  on  Organization  having,  by  circular  of  May  15,  1891,  and  for 
reasons  stated  therein,  renounced  the  convocation  of  the  Seventh  International 
Pharmaceutical  Congress  at  Milan  ;  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Sixth 
Congress,  at  Brussels,  by  letter  of  November  26,  1891,  confirmed  the  invitation 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  in  a  communication  of  Feb- 
ruary 16,  1892,  the  former  Committee  on  Organization  at  Milan,  expressed  the 
view  that  there  was  nothing,  under  the  circumstances  stated,  to  prevent  the 
organization  of  the  Seventh  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  in  1893,  in 
Chicago. 
Now,  in  view  of  the  above  facts,  the  undersigned  officers  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  take  pleasure  in  extending  a  heart}7  invitation  to 
the  pharmaceutical  societies  of  all  countries  to  appoint  delegates  to  the  Inter- 
national Pharmaceutical  Congress,  which  is  to  assemble  in  the  city  of  Chicago 
during  the  year  1893,  and  in  which  teachers  to  pharmaceutical  institutions 
and  pharmacists  in  general  are  likewise  cordially  invited  to  participate. 
It  is  especially  desired,  that  the  contents  of  this  circular  letter  be  brought  to 
the  notice  of  kindred  societies,  and  that  information  be  given  to  the  under- 
signed secretary,  relating  to  suggestions  of  subjects  of  general  importance, 
suitable  for  discussion  and  action  by  the  Congress,  as  well  as  to  the  intention 
of  pharmaceutical  societies,  of  teachers  of  pharmacy  and  pharmacists  in  other 
countries,  of  being  present  or  represented  at  the  Congress  of  1893. 
