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X.F.  more  exact,  and  drugs  and  their  preparations  more  uniform 
and  efficient. 
Bulletin  58  is  free  to  those  interested  in  its  contents,  and  may 
be  had  by  application  to  the  Surg-eon-General  of  the  Public  Health 
and  Marine-Hospital  Sendee. 
CORRESPONDENCE 
UNITED  STATES  PHARM ACOPCEIAL  CONVENTION. 
Washington,  D.  C,  December  17,  1909. 
To  the  Organizations  and  Institutions  Entitled  to  Repre- 
sentation   in    the    United    States  Pharmacopceial 
Convention,  1910: 
For  the  first  time  in  its  history,  the  United  States  Pharmacopceial 
Convention  will  meet,  on  May  10,  1910,  at  Washington  as  a  cor- 
porate body;  it  is  therefore  of  the  utmost  importance  that  all  the 
legal  and  constitutional  requirements  of  the  corporation  be  com- 
plied with.  The  response  to  the  request  for  data,  as  to  date  of 
incorporation  and  period  of  continuous  operation,  has  by  no  means 
been  complete.  Numerous  requests  have  been  received  for  creden- 
tial blanks  and  forms  for  the  notification  of  the  appointment  of 
delegates,  and  many  of  the  notifications  and  credentials  now  in 
hand  fail  to  meet  the  evident  requirements  of  the  Constitution  and 
By-Laws  of  the  Convention. 
In  order  to  secure  uniformity  as  to  these  details  and  to  provide 
that  all  the  requirements  of  the  Constitution  be  met,  the  Committee 
on  Credentials  and  Arrangements  has  adopted  the  enclosed  form, 
four  copies  of  which  will  be  sent  to  each  organization  or  institution 
which,  from  information  now  at  hand,  is  believed  to  be  entitled 
to  representation.  These  forms  should  be  filled  out  carefully  and 
completely,  particularly  with  reference  to  the  data  as  to  date  of 
incorporation  and  period  of  continuous  operation ;  for  it  is  highly 
desirable  that  these  data  of  historical  interest  be  a  matter  of  record 
in  the  archives  of  the  corporation,  especially  with  reference  to 
those  organizations  and  institutions  which,  having  been  represented 
in  the  Convention  of  1900.  are,  by  special  provision  of  the  Con- 
stitution, entitled  to  representation  in  the  Convention  of  19 10.  One 
of  these  forms,  after  having  been  duly  filled  out,  signed  and  sealed, 
should  be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Committee  and  another,  like- 
