268  U.  S.  Pharmacopccial  Convention.      (Am  Jour  pharm. 
1  (       June,  1910. 
public  health.  He  said  that  there  must  be  co-operation  of  the 
representatives  of  industry,  commerce  and  government;  that  the 
delegates  were  assembled  to  consult  and  confer  in  order  that  they 
might  develop  their  professional  work;  and  that  in  the  elevation 
of  standards  which  are  intended  for  the  protection  of  the  public 
health  and  which  are  to  be  adopted  by  the  Government,  it  is 
desirable  that  this  be  done  in  such  a  manner  that  commerce  is 
not  interfered  with  and  no  new  regulations  are  required  for  their 
enforcement. 
The  address  of  His  Excellency  Senor  Calvo,  the  minister  to 
the  United  States  from  Costa  Rica  was  suggestive  of  the  op- 
portunity afforded  the  convention  to  make  the  U.  S.  P.  an 
American  Pharmacopoeia.  He  stated  that  the  Spanish  American 
population  amounted  to  40,000,000  people.  He  also  referred  to 
the  fact  that  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  is  one  of  the  recognized 
pharmacopoeias  official  in  Costa  Rica  and  in  several  of  the  States  of 
South  America. 
The  address  of  President  Wood  was  then  read  by  Dr.  Wall. 
It  was  in  printed  form  and  copies  were  distributed  to  the  delegates. 
As  the  address  was  being  read  no  doubt  those  who  had  intimately 
known  Dr.  Wood  and  were  present  at  the  1900  Convention  thought 
of  him  and  saw  him  as  he  was  then,  the  ablest  exponent  of  the 
medical  profession  and  as  the  leader  and  most  magnetic  personality 
of  that  convention.  The  present  address  revealed  the  character 
that  has  been  shown  in  all  of  the  papers  of  Dr.  Wood  during 
the  past  fifty  years  and  is  a  fitting  close  to-  a  life  of  over-strenuous 
labor  in  the  interest  of  the  professions  of  medicine  and  pharmacy, 
he  being  as  well  known  to  the  pharmacists  of  the  United  States, 
and  indeed  throughout  the  world,  as  he  is  to  the  medical  profession. 
From  the  address  the  following  paragraphs  are  selected  as 
having  a  bearing  on  the  future  work  of  revision : 
The  position  of  the  Convention  is  so  anomalous  that  a  parallel  is  very 
difficult  to  find,  but  the  lighting  and  buoying  of  the  English  coast  is  under 
the  control  of  a  Corporation  which  is  analogous  to  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeial 
Convention  in  that  it  exercises  legal  governmental  authority  although  an 
independent  body.  Its  power  to  erect  and  take  charge  of  the  light-houses 
and  beacons  of  the  coast  of  England  was  given  to  it  by  Queen  Elizabeth 
in  1573,  and  its  work  has  been  so  satisfactory  that  whilst  the  coasts  of 
Scotland  and  Ireland  are  under  government  care,  the  Brothers  of  the  Trinity 
still  remain  masters  of  the  English  coast. 
As  it  was  with  the  Corporation  of  Trinity  House,  so  originated  in 
