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"  Further  steps  for  promoting  the  objects  and  deciding  upon  the  date  of  the 
congress  will  be  taken  at  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion at  the  meeting  in  July  of  the  present  year.  Meanwhile,  the  undersigned 
desire  to  assure  all  who  may  come  as  delegates,  as  members  or  as  visitors,  to 
the  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress,  at  Chicago,  in  1893,  of  the  very 
cordial  reception  on  behalf  of  the  Pharmacists  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
[Signed]       Ai,ex.  K.  Finlay, 
President  of  the  American  Pharm.  Association. 
John  M.  Maisch, 
Permanent  Secretary. 
Chicago,  May  26,  1892. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  has  invited  the  Seventh  Inter- 
national Pharmaceutical  Congress  to  meet  in  the  city  of  Chicago  during  the 
season  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  in  1893  ;  the  assent  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  of  the  Sixth  Congress  at  Brussels,  and  its  Committee  on  Organi- 
zation at  Milan,  has  been  formally  given,  and  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  has  appointed  a  special  committee  to  arrange  the  preliminaries. 
In  the  performance  of  its  function,  this  committee  has  the  honor,  therefore, 
to  invite  all  pharmaceutical  societies  and  other  organized  bodies  of  all  countries 
to  appoint  delegates  to  the  Seventh  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress,  to 
be  held  in  Chicago  in  1893  ;  and  an  invitation  is  also  extended  to  all  teachers 
in  pharmaceutical  schools  and  members  of  pharmacopceial  commissions  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  congress. 
The  precedents  established  by  previous  International  Pharmaceutical  Con- 
gresses will  be  followed  in  regard  to  all  preliminaries  as  far  as  practicable. 
On  behalf  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  all  who  will  honor 
the  occasion  by  their  presence  are  assured  of  a  most  hearty  welcome. 
By  the  committee  : 
[Signed]       Oscar  Oedberg, 
Chairman. 
ALBERT  E.  EBERT, 
Secretary. 
These  letters  of  invitation  were  accompanied  by  a  preliminary 
announcement  and  programme,  containing  among  others  the  follow- 
ing items: 
"  The  general  scope  and  object  of  the  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress 
will  be  to  stimulate  pharmaceutical  progress,  to  discuss  the  status  of  pharma- 
cists and  promote  an  intelligent  appreciation  of  the  work  they  do,  and  to  con- 
sider matters  and  measures  affecting  the  further  advancement  of  pharmacy  and 
a  nearer  approach  to  international  agreement  in  education  and  practice. 
"  The  subjects  to  be  considered  by  the  congress  will  be  classified  into  the 
following  four  sections  :  (1)  Historical  and  ethical  pharmacy  ;  (2)  pharmaceu- 
tical education  and  legislation  ;  (3)  pharmacopceial  matters  ;  (4)  general  ques- 
tions pertaining  to  pharmacy  and  not  assignable  to  any  of  the  three  preceding 
sections. 
"  The  congress  will  be  constituted  of  delegates  accredited  by  the  governments 
of  the  various  countries,  of  the  pharmaceutical  societies,  of  examining  boards, 
