Ill 
U. S. P. will conform even more completely. — J. cle pharm. et de 
chim., Par., 1906, v. 23, p. 292. 
Schamelhout, A., discusses the degree of compliance in the U. S. P. 
VIII with the protocol of the Brussels Conference for the Unifica- 
tion of the Formulae for Potent Medicaments and points out a num- 
ber of preparations which do not comply with the provisions of the 
protocol. — Bull. Soc. roy. de pharm. Brux., 1906, v. 50, p. 115. 
Tschirch, A., does not approve of the lack of compliance with the 
provisions of the Brussels Conference evidenced in the U. S. P. 
VIII, and asserts that many of the resolutions do not appear to have 
been at all considered. — Schweiz. Wchnschr. f. Chem. u. Pharm., 
1906, v. 44, p. 419. 
Wilbert, M. I., points out that despite the fact that the Interna- 
tional Conference for the Unification of the Formulae of Potent 
Medicaments was held practically three years before the eighth de- 
cennial revision of the pharmacopoeia was published, the members of 
the Committee on Revision did not see their way clear to adopt fully 
all of the provisions of the resulting protocol, and the Pharmacopoeia 
of the United States, in place of being one of the first to indorse this 
admittedly desirable innovation will probably be the last, of those 
represented in the conference, to adopt the several provisions in their 
entirety. — J. Am. M. Ass., 1906, v. 47, p. 1990. 
Payne, George F., a member of the Committee on Revision, points 
out that the reason the strength of the tinctures of aconite and 
veratrum viride was reduced to 10 per cent was because these two 
tinctures were so much stronger than those of the civilized countries 
from which we receive many prescriptions. * * * To further 
simplify the matter of tinctures, it was decided to make all of the 
potent tinctures of 10 per cent strength with the exception of tincture 
of iodine.— Proc. Georgia Pharm. Ass., 1906, p. 73. 
SPANISH EDITION OF THE U. S. P. VIII. 
Whelpley, Henry M., asserts that the United States Pharmacopoeia 
is either the chief or one of the several pharmacopoeias recognized 
in the Central American States, Liberia, Peru, Uruguay, and 
Venezuela. Our pharmacopoeia is also gaining favor in Cuba, 
Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippines since our closer 
commercial and political relations with these countries. Costa Rica 
has gone so far as to make the United States Pharmacopoeia the 
official standard for that country, although but few of the physicians 
and pharmacists practicing there can read English. — Meyer Bros., 
Drug., St. Louis, 1906, v. 27, p. 332. 
A news note asserts that the society of pharmacists in Cuba is en- 
gaged in the translation of the LTnited States Pharmacopoeia from 
English into Spanish, and that when this translation is completed it 
