. The Pharmaceutical era. liiternatimiul Congress ofIhurnincy, held at Chicago in 1883, it was deciiied thatthe time and place of the gathering should be fixedby a connnittco which was appointed lor the no action taken in the matter The Belgian Pharmacist! Took the Initiative,and as the fiftieth anniversary of their General Asso-ciation fell in 181)7, concurrently with the Brussels Ex-hibition, they addressed a letter to Prof. Remington,of Chicago, proposing King Leopolds capital as a suit-able site. I have been trying to make them understandhow many hundred miles there ar
. The Pharmaceutical era. liiternatimiul Congress ofIhurnincy, held at Chicago in 1883, it was deciiied thatthe time and place of the gathering should be fixedby a connnittco which was appointed lor the no action taken in the matter The Belgian Pharmacist! Took the Initiative,and as the fiftieth anniversary of their General Asso-ciation fell in 181)7, concurrently with the Brussels Ex-hibition, they addressed a letter to Prof. Remington,of Chicago, proposing King Leopolds capital as a suit-able site. I have been trying to make them understandhow many hundred miles there are between Chicagoand ihiladelphia, remarked the Irofessor. Anyway,the letter reached me rather late, and before I had con-sulted all my colleagues, the Belgian Association hadarranged everything. These facts, together with the coincidence of a MedicalCongress at Moscow and the Glasgow nuxting of BritishPharmacists, account for the abstention of Germany, andthe inadeiiuate niireseiittitinn uf many cither Kuriii) The Brussels University Building. where the Congress was held, nevertheless, contained agoodly show of foreign delegates at the opening meet-ing on Aug. 14. Seven European countries were officiallyrepresented—Austria by Dr. Augustus E. Vogl, profes-sor of materia medica at the Vienna University; Franceby Prof. Pruuier, Paris School of Pharmacy; Hollandby Dr. H. Wefers-Bettink, professor at Utrecht Uni-versity; Mexico by Senor Altamirano and Professor Jos6D. Moral&s; Norway by Mr. Stromer; Roumania by Altan, of Bucharest, and Sweden by Mr. Se-bardt. The United States had delegated Prof. Joseph P. Remington, of Philadel-phia; Dr. Power, who is, I believe, attached to theWellcome Research Laboratory at London, England, andMr. Alfred Meyer, of New Orleans. MM. Adrian,Crinon, Petit, and Viron had come from Paris; M. Col-lard and half a dozen others from the larger Frenchtowns, while the numerous Dutch contingent includedMessrs. Hoffmann, Schoop (Maestrec
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