(3) Qualifications of persons selected for work of testing, ex amining, and annealing; (4) Certificates and records; (5) Safety factor; (6) Administration; (7) Transitional period; (8) Procedure for reciprocity. THIRD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF Delegates: (Oxford, England, July 30-August 7, 1935) Jacob G. Lipman, Ph.D., Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Chairman of the Delegation; Richard Bradfield, Ph.D., Professor of Soils, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Hans Jenny, Sc.D., Professor of Soils, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri;1 W. P. Kelley, Ph.D., Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California; C. E. Kellogg, Ph.D., of North Dakota, Assistant Chief, Division of Soil Survey, Department of Agriculture; W. C. Lowdermilk, Ph.D., of California, Associate Chief, Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; C. F. Marbut, LL.D., of Missouri, Principal Soil Scientist, Department of Agriculture; 2 A. G. McCall, Ph.D., of Ohio, Chief, Soil Investigations, Department of Agriculture; A. L. Patrick, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Soils, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pennsylvania; 1 Oswald Schreiner, Ph.D., of Wisconsin, Chief, Division of Soil Fertility Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture; Charles F. Shaw, Head of the Department of Soils, University of California, Berkeley, California. Sixty-two official delegates from approximately 40 countries were present at the Congress, as well as a large number of unofficial delegates. 1 Did not attend. 2 Deceased August 24, 1935. The International Society of Soil Science works in six commissions and three subcommissions, as follows: (1) Soil physics; (2) Soil chemistry; (3) Soil microbiology; (5) Soil genesis, morphology, and cartography— (a) Alkali soils; (b) Forest soils; (6) Application of soil science to land amelioration— The Congress met in plenary sessions each morning, and separate or joint sessions of the commissions and subcommissions met in the afternoon. One plenary session was conducted by each of the six main commissions. A soil map of Europe was completed and a report rendered to the Congress. Soil maps representing large areas in China, India, and portions of Africa were presented. The work of the Congress and the papers presented at the Congress gave evidence of the progress made in the interpretation of chemical, physical, and microbiological data relating to soils and their use. This represents a general advance toward dealing with the land resources of the world and the social, economic, and political implications arising therefrom. A report of the Congress is contained in a publication, in three volumes, entitled Transactions of the Third International Congress of Soil Science, and may be obtained from Dr. G. V. Jacks, Secretary, British Organizing Committee of the Conference, Harpenden, England. The Executive Committee of the Congress voted to hold the Fourth Conference of the International Society of Soil Science in Germany in 1940. FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON FAMILY EDUCATION Delegates: (Brussels, Belgium, July 31-August 4, 1935) Thomas W. Gosling, Ph.D., Director, American Junior Red Cross, Washington, D.C.; Mary E. Leeper, Secretary, Association for Childhood Education, Washington, D.C. Thirty countries were officially represented at the Congress. The Congress was divided into seven sections dealing with the following general subjects: (1) General ideas on the formation of character-psychological study of children; (2) Formation of character in family life-advice to parents on the best methods for the upbringing of children; (3) Character-formation at all stages of school life-methods for developing social sensibilities; (4) Preparation of young people for their roles as heads of families to begin in primary schools; (5) Propaganda to parents that will aid them in characterbuilding; (6) The different agencies now at work to increase the opportunities of family training in the home; (7) Social zeal and a common program to promote civilization through character-building in the home. Twenty-four questions were discussed before these sections, and the Fifth Congress adopted resolutions concerning each of the questions under consideration. Information concerning these resolutions and general information concerning the Congress may be obtained from the Executive Bureau of the International Commission for Family Education, 22 avenue de l'Yser, Brussels, Belgium. The international congresses on family education are held every five years under the auspices of the International Commission for Family Education. No place was selected for the holding of the 1940 meeting. TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHARMACY (Brussels, Belgium, July 31-August 5, 1935) Delegate: Major Edgar Erskine Hume, Medical Corps, United States Army. Approximately 40 countries were represented at the Congress by 500 delegates. The Congress was divided into the following sections: (1) Pharmacognosy and Galenic pharmacy; (2) Pharmaceutical chemistry; (3) Chemical analysis and toxicology; (4) Bromatology; (5) Microbiology. Topics considered by the sections were the bases for a number of resolutions adopted by the Congress, the most important of which were: (1) Uniform laws in all countries regarding the sale of drugs— (a) That a definition of the word "medicament" be required as preliminary to every law concerning the healing art; (b) That the word "consumer" must be limited and defined; (c) That the "distributor" be no other than a pharmacist and that no person be interposed between the producer and the consumer who is not a pharmacist; (d) That, with the exception of a few dietetic products, the sale of medicaments be limited to pharmacists; (e) That the production (manufacture) of drugs be reserved to pharmacists or to authorized institutions conducted by pharmacists; (f) That the sale of specialties and drugs by wholesale dealers be limited to authorized pharmacists; (g) That the production of drugs be in normal amounts, as superproduction is an actual danger to the public. (2) The role of pharmacists in civilian defense against gas— (a) That universities be requested to enlarge their courses in analytical chemistry, toxicology, and bromatology by a more thorough study of war poisons and that the faculties of pharmacy be requested to organize courses for supplementing the knowledge of persons who have received their diplomas from the said universities in the past; (b) That national Red Cross societies be requested to reserve an important place for pharmacists in educating the masses (courses of instruction for litterbearers), in the study of passive defense as applied to aid for victims, and in the mobilization of the Red Cross; (c) That governments be requested to utilize on a large scale the skill of pharmacists in the general organization for the detection of gas, the disinfection and inspection of gas masks, the management of shelters, and the conservation of chemical and pharmaceutical products. (3) Abolition of restrictions on narcotics That, legislation being very different in the various countries, so far as a system of regulation is concerned, the pharmacist should demonstrate sufficient moral qualities to prevent his being compromised in improper dispensation of narcotic drugs-a limitation of production of such drugs being suggested as the only means of preventing abuses. Information concerning the proceedings of the Congress, including the texts of the resolutions adopted, may be obtained from the Army Medical Museum and Library, War Department, Washington, D.C. Article IX of the rules of the Congress require the final session to select and announce the date and place of the next Congress. Although more than a dozen countries had extended invitations for the next meeting, no decision was reached and the Congress therefore voted that the place and date of the next Congress be left to the Committee of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (Fédération Internationale Pharmaceutique). FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF GASTRO-ENTEROLOGY Delegates: (Brussels, Belgium, August 8-10, 1935) Lieutenant Colonel John H. Trinder, Medical Corps, United States Army, retired, Washington, D.C., Chairman of the Delegation; 1 Henry L. Bockus, M.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;1 1 1 B. B. Vincent Lyon, M.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1 1 Believing that physicians, surgeons, radiologists, physiologists, anatomico-pathologists, and biochemists should jointly consider the subject of the digestive function, the Belgian Society of GastroEnterology inaugurated the First International Congress of GastroEnterology. 1 Did not attend. |