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favorably by the chairman of the committee, that his suggestion will 
be fully realized. — Canad. Druggist, Toronto, 1906, v. 18, p. 494. 
An editorial discusses the recently published invitation, by the 
General Medical Council of Great Britain, that the pharmaceutical 
societies of Great Britain and Ireland appoint a committee who are 
to be known as a “ Committee of Deference in Pharmacy,” and ex- 
presses the belief that this change will be decidedly to the advantage 
of the pharmacopoeia. — Meyer Bros., Drug., St. Louis, 1906, v. 27, 
p. 60 . 
Hills, Walter, on behalf of the Committee of Reference, requests 
pharmacists and members of the British pharmaceutical societies in 
general to cooperate in the revision of the British Pharmacopoeia by 
contributing the results of their investigations or such suggestions as 
may tend to increase the accuracy or the utility of the work. — Pharm. 
J., Bond., 1906, v. 22, p. 4. 
The Committee of Reference in Pharmacy, of the Ph. Brit., nomi- 
nated by the pharmaceutical societies of Great Britain and of Ire- 
land, have presented an exhaustive report to the General Medical 
Council, consisting principally of recommendations regarding criti- 
cisms of articles official in the Ph. Brit. IV. The committee con- 
sists of Walter Hills (chairman) ; W. X. Allen; G. D. Beggs; F. C. J 
Bird; J. E. Brunker; M. A. W. Inglis Clark, D. Sc. ; D. B. Dott; 
W. Kirby; E. W. Lucas; G. F. Merson; J. C. Umney; E. White, 
B. Sc. ; R. Wright; and H. G. Greenish (secretary). The report is 
sold for the Medical Council by Messrs. Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd., 
54 Gracecliurch st., London, E. C., price Is. Id. — Chem. & Drug., 
Lond., 1906, v. 69, p. 862. 
An editorial comments on the report of the Committee of Reference 
in Pharmacy, calling attention to the value of publication of com- 
ments and criticisms of the pharmacopoeia in advance of the actual 
work of revision. — Brit. Med. J., Lond., 1906, v. 2, p. 1736. 
Bennett, C. J., asserts that a grave danger to the public and the 
medical profession is the fact that many of the mostly used prepara- 
tions of the Ph. Brit, are prepared by persons who are not qualified, 
and demands that Parliament should insert a clause in the new gov- 
ernment bill, insuring that all drugs and medicinal preparations 
should be prepared under the direct supervision of a qualified chem- 
ist. — Chem. & Drug., Lond., 1906, v. 69, p. 46. 
“A Pharmacist ” says that the authority of the Ph. Brit, in rela- 
tion to the sale of food and drugs act remains nebulous in the ex- 
treme. The descriptions and tests of the pharmacopoeia are often 
found to be, or to become, indefinite, inaccurate, and out of date. — 
Pharm. J., Lond., 1906, v. 23, p. 236. 
“ Gnomon ” points out that it would be desirable to establish a 
general understanding as to what should be supplied when medicine 
