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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
("Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\  September,  1909. 
that  organization  are  looking  forward  to  a  record  meeting,  so  far  as 
attendance  is  concerned. 
The  State  pharmaceutical  association  meetings  held  this  year 
appear  to  have  been  more  than  usually  well  attended.  The  scien- 
tific papers  were  numerous,  and  altogether  it  would  appear  as  .though 
interest  in  matters  relating  to  true  pharmacy  was  on  the  increase 
throughout  the  whole  country. 
The  Seventh  International  Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry  was 
held  in  London,  May  27  to  June  2  inclusive.  Upwards  of  1000 
communications  were  presented  in  the  several  sections. 
The  Pharmaceutical  Section  under  the  presidency  of  Mr.  N.  H. 
Martin,  of  New-Castle-on-Tyne,  presented  an  unusually  interesting 
program,  nearly  forty  papers  being  read  and  discussed.  In  this 
connection  it  appears  that  considerable  progress  was  made  to  fur- 
ther international  uniformity,  not  alone  in  standards  for  potent  medi- 
caments but  also  in  methods  of  analysis  and  standardization 
generally. 
In  the  section  on  Pharmaceutical  Chemistry  several  papers  were 
read  bearing  on  the  variation  in  strength  of  potent  drugs,  and,  on 
motion,  it  was  agreed  to  appoint  a  provisional  committee  to  inquire 
into  the  practicability  of  securing:  (1)  greater  uniformity  in  the 
commercial  supplies  of  potent  drugs,  and  (2)  approximation  in  the 
Pharmacopoeias  of  the  world  to  common  standards  of  activity.  This 
committee  has  been  appointed  and  will  no  doubt  present  a  compre- 
hensive report  and  a  practicable  scheme  of  procedure  at  the  next 
International  Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry,  which  is  to  be  held  in 
the  city  of  Washington  in  1912. 
Other  meetings  of  'interest  to  pharmacists  are  the  12th  Inter- 
national Congress  on  Alcoholism  held  in  London,  July  18  to  24, 
1909,  and  the  16th  International  Medical  Congress  held  in  Budapest, 
Hungary,  August  29  to  September  4. 
An  International  Congress  of  Pharmacy  is  to  be  held  in  Brussels 
in  1910,  from  September  1  to  5,  which  is  to  be  devoted  exclusively 
to  the  discussion  of  questions  of  international  character.  With  the 
interest  that  has  been  aroused  in  connection  with  the  International 
Congress  for  Applied  Chemistry  in  matters  relating  to  the  desirabil- 
ity of  establishing  international  standards  for  the  more  widely  used 
drugs,  this  meeting  at  Brussels  promises  to  b?  not  alone  well 
attended  but  also  a  powerful  influence  for  progress. 
Closing  Medical  Colleges. — An  editorial  points  out  that  during 
