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mined by competent chemical experts before adoption, and such ex- 

 perts must receive adequate compensation for their services in order 

 that their work may be promptly and satisfactorily performed. As 

 has been pointed out in a former report, if the large sale of the Uni- 

 ted States Pharmacopoeia, on account of its being the legal standard 

 does not provide sufficient funds for the adequate payment for 

 expert services they certainly can be obtained by reasonably ad- 

 vancing the price of the work, the drug and allied trades being both 

 able and willing to pay for the best work that can be produced and 

 no false ideas of economy should be allowed to prevail in regard to 

 adequate payment for services rendered. 



COMPOSITON OF REVISION COMMITTEE . 



The Committee on Revision to be elected next May should con- 

 sist of the ablest men obtainable, who will undertake the several 

 departments of the work and who will agree to devote their time 

 to it upon assurance of adequate remuneration. 



PUBLICITY 



The committee will undoubtedly have at its disposal records 

 accumulated in the laboratories of manufacturers of chemicals and 

 pharmaceuticals on a large scale and it appears to your committee 

 that it can secure a vast amount of information by the publication 

 in the pharmaceutical press of all proposed changes of tests and 

 standards. This has been objected to on the ground that if a con- 

 sensus of opinion of the committee of twenty-five is difficult to 

 obtain it would add enormously to the labor if the entire trade, as 

 it were, is to be consulted. 



To this your committee would reply: — Criticisms are bound to 

 come, and that it would be far better to have them sent in and 

 passed upon by the committee or subcommittee having the particu- 

 lar standard or test in charge before the final adoption of the stand- 

 ard than afterwards, and it is earnestly hoped that the great ad- 

 vantage to be obtained from publicity will so commend itself to the 

 Pharmacopceial Convention that the Committee on Revision will 

 be instructed to send notices of all proposals for changes in stand- 

 ards or tests to the pharmaceutical press that are being considered 



by it. 



(To be Continued). 



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