Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1910. 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
259 
consideration  on  the  part  of  those  interested  in  the  revision  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia  and  to  many  at  least  these  general  principles  would 
appear  to  leave  the  responsibility  for  the  scope  and  content  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia  as  well  as  many  of  the  details  of  the  revision 
entirely  with  the  Committee  of  Revision. 
One  of  the  more  important  of  these  principles,  No.  14,  refers  to 
publicity  and  recommends  that :  The  general  Committee  of  Re- 
vision be  authorized  to  make  public  for  comment  and  criticism  an 
abstract  of  standards  and  tests  before  final  adoption. 
The  value  of  preliminary  publication  of  proposed  pharmacopceial 
standards  is  well  illustrated  by  the  discussion  that  has  been  aroused 
in  German  and  English  Pharmaceutical  Journals,  through  the  pre- 
liminary publication  of  proposed  changes  in  the  German  and 
British  Pharmacopoeias.  In  Great  Britain  the  publication  of  the 
monographs  proposed  for  the  Ph.  Brit.  V.  has  been  followed  by 
a  full  and  free  discussion  of  the  several  proposed  requirements 
and  the  resulting  information  that  has  been  offered  will,  no  doubt, 
be  of  advantage  to  the  editors  of  this  particular  portion  of  the 
Ph.  Brit. 
An  editorial  ( Chem.  &  Drug.,  Lond.,  1910,  March  26,  p.  64) 
in  discussing  the  prior  publication  of  the  proposed  pharmacopceial 
monograph  for  essential  oils  points  out  that  this  is  the  first  time 
that  this  course  has  been  attempted  in  connection  with  the  Ph. 
Brit.,  and  commends  the  move  as  being  one  in  the  right  direction, 
despite  the  fact  that  it  still  remains  to  be  proved  how  far  the  new 
method  will  meet  the  wants  of  the  case.  There  can  be  no  two 
opinions  about  the  fact  that  it  is  a  rational  experiment  devised  for 
the  good  of  all  interested. 
Ph.  Germ.  V. — A  list  of  the  proposed  changes  to  be  made  in 
the  German  Pharmacopoeia  is  published  in  the  Pharm.  Zeitg.  (1910, 
v.  55,  p.  177).  The  changes  include  admissions,  deletions,  changes 
in  the  Latin  title,  and  a  number  of  changes  in  the  requirements 
for  the  several  articles. 
An  editorial  (Pharm.  Zeitg.,  Berlin,  1910,  v.  55,  p.  269)  com- 
menting on  the  changes  proposed  for  the  new  edition  of  the 
German  Pharmacopoeia,  points  out  that  the  proposed  additions  in- 
clude 63  separate  titles  and  12  general  headings.  Among  these 
63  titles  are  17  substitute  preparations,  2  new  oils,  and  5  new 
drugs.  The  number  of  articles  proposed  for  deletion  amounts  to 
32,  so  that  the  new  Pharmacopoeia  will  include  in  round  numbers 
