28o 
Editorial 
Am.  Jour.  Pharnj. 
Ma3",  1892. 
EDITORIAL. 
A  circular  letter  relating  to  the  Seventh  International  Congress  has  been 
issued  by  the  officers  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  the 
English,  French  and  German  languages,  which  were  the  official  languages  of 
the  preceding  Congresses.    The  letter  explains  itself : 
To  the  Pharmaceutical  Societies  and  the  Pharmacists  of  aee  Coun- 
tries, Greeting  : 
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  Centennial 
International  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  International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  to  meet  in  this 
country.  The  Italian  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  Com- 
mittee of  the  Sixth  Congress,  at  Brussels,  by  letter  of  November  26,  1891,  con- 
firmed the  invitation  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  ;  and  in  a 
communication  of  February  16,  1892,  the  former  Committee  on  Organization 
at  Milan,  expressed  the  view  that  there  was  nothing,,  und'ir  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  hearty  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  discusion  and  action  by  the  Congress,  as  well  as  to  the  intention  of 
Pharmaceutical  Societies,  of  Pharmacists  and  of  Teachers  of  Pharmacy  in 
other  countries,  of  being  present  or  represented  at  the  Congress  of  1893. 
Further  steps  for  promoting  the  objects  and  deciding  upon  the  date  of  the 
Congress  will  be  taken  at  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation in  July  of  the  present  year.  Meanwhile  the  undersigned  desire  to  assure 
all  who  may  come,  as  members  or  as  visitors,  to  the  International  Pharma- 
ceutical Congress  at  Chicago,  in  1891,  of  the  very  cordial  reception,  on  behalf  of 
the  pharmacists  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
AeEx.  K.  Fineay, 
Pharmacist  in  New  Orleans  ; 
President  of  the  A  merican  Pharmaceutical  Association.  . 
John  M.  Maisch, 
Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Botany  ; 
Permanent  Secretary  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association^ 
Office  of  the  Permanent  Secretary. 
143  N  ->rth  Tenth  Street,  PmiADEivPHrA.    March  30,  1892. 
