Am.  Jour.  Pharrn.  | 
October,  1908.  j 
National  Formulary. 
47i 
STATUS  OF  THE  APPENDIX. 
The  Committee  has  given  a  careful  consideration  to  this  question. 
The  present  appendix  is  occupied  solely  with  preparations  which 
have  been  discarded  from  previous  editions  of  the  U.  S.  Pharma- 
copoeia, and  are  not  therefore  any  part  of  the  work  of  the  N.  F. 
Committee,  but  as  the  status  of  the  appendix  is  not  well  established, 
your  Committee  believes  that  the  best  way  of  meeting  this  condition 
is  to  eliminate  the  word  "  Appendix "  and  to  divide  the  book 
into  two  parts,  each  part  to  contain  such  articles  as  may  be  appro- 
priately placed  therein. 
PROPAGANDA. 
Under  this  head,  the  Chairman  presented  an  analysis  of  the 
work  of  pharmacists  and  the  various  Sections  of  the  A.  Ph.  A. 
which  we  recommend  be  referred  in  its  entirety  to  the  Section  on 
Commercial  Interests. 
EXPENSES  OF  THE  COMMITTEE. 
In  the  past,  the  work  of  the  National  Formulary  Committee  has 
been  wholly  gratuitous,  but  the  present  legal  position  of  the  Formu- 
lary makes  the  work  of  the  Committee  more  onerous  and  responsible 
than  it  has  been  hitherto,  and  we  think  that  the  regular  expenses 
of  the  Committee  involving  correspondence,  use  of  materials  for 
investigation  and  to  carry  on  the  work  should  be  met  by  the  Asso- 
ciation. Such  legitimate  expenses  may  be  defined  more  definitely 
later  and  are  not  likely  to  be  of  any  large  amount  unless  by  special 
provision  and  agreement  as  in  the  present  case. 
GENERAL  SUBJECTS. 
Under  this  title,  a  number  of  details  were  considered  affecting  the 
title  of  the  National  Formulary,  titles  to  preparations,  etc. 
We  make  •  the  following  recommendations  : 
1.  That  the  title  page  of  the  National  Formulary  should  omit 
the  words  "  Of  unofficial  preparations,"  and  the  title  should  be 
simply  "  The  National  Formulary." 
2.  That  the  nomenclature  and  the  titles  of  the  N.  F.  should  be 
in  harmony  with  those  of  the  U.  S.  P. 
3.  Titles  and  synonyms  not  official  should  conform  to  modern 
ideas  of  chemistry. 
