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/Am.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
{     October,  1908. 
or  may  not  be  cognizant  of  the  fitness  of  his  appointee  for  carrying 
out  the  specific  duties  required  of  them. 
In  accordance  with  this  suggestion  the  Committee  unanimously 
recommend  to  the  Association  that  the  Committee  on  National 
Formulary  be  appointed  by  the  Council  and  that  it  shall  continue 
until  the  revision  of  the  Formulary  for  which  it  was  appointed  is 
completed.  It  is  further  recommended  that  the  Committee  to  be 
appointed  by  the  Council  shall  consist  of  fifteen  members. 
ORGANIZATION  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. 
For  the  present  meeting,  the  auxiliary  members  of  the  Com- 
mittee were  placed  on  an  equal  footing  so  far  as  official  action  and 
voting  is  concerned,  with  the  members  of  this  Committee  appointed 
by  the  President. 
A  Secretary  pro  tern,  was  appointed,  but  the  committee  did  not 
deem  it  advisable  to  further  change  the  present  organization  into 
sub-committees,  etc.  until  after  the  above  recommendation  providing 
for  a  more  permanent  committee  has  been  acted  upon  by  the  Asso- 
ciation. The  work  is  therefore  being  conducted  under  the  form 
of  organization  with  which  the  Association  is  familiar.  It  was 
deemed  advisable,  however,  to  secure  the  future  co-operation  and 
advice  of  the  Medical  profession  and  of  the  Medical  departments 
of  the  National  Government,  and  we  recommend  that  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  through  its  properly  constituted  officers, 
request  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Chemistry,  the  Surgeon  General 
of  the  Army,  the  Surgeon  General  of  the  Navy  and  the  Surgeon 
General  of  the  Public  Health  and  Marine  Hospital  Service  to 
co-operate  in  the  work  of  revision  by  supplying  such  suggestions 
for  additions,  corrections  or  eliminations,  as  may  be  brought  to 
their  attention  through  or  by  the  physicians  and  pharmacists  en- 
gaged in  these  several  services ;  and  that  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau 
of  Chemistry  of  the  Agricultural  Department  and  the  Surgeon 
General  of  the  Public  Health  and  Marine  Hospital  Service,  be 
requested  to  assist  in  such  laboratory  work  as  may  be  necessary  to 
improve  and  perfect  the  National  Formulary  and  in  providing  such 
tests  of  identity  and  purity  as  may  be  necessary.  We  suggest 
that  the  interest  and  co-operation  of  the  medical  profession  in  this 
work  may  be  best  secured  through  the  Joint  Conference  Committee 
proposed  and  provided  for  by  the  American  Medical  Association 
at  the  recent  meeting  of  that  Association  in  Chicago.    We  further 
