282  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {Amj^Ti9lo&Tm' 
health.  Finally,  it  must  be  said  that  the  promise  of  the  new  Decen- 
nial Revision  is  in  some  measure  due  to  the  efforts  of  the  surviving 
officers  and  members  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  appointed  in 
1900,  who  have  labored  in  part  under  the  inspiration  of  those  who 
were  taken  from  the  ranks  by  the  silent  hand  of  Death,  and  who 
have  stood  by  the  work  through  tempest  and  calm  eager  that  their 
work  might  be  adapted  to  the  new  order  of  things  and  acceptable 
to  the  Convention.  The  new  Pharmacopoeia  (U.  S.  P.  IX),  without 
inviting  comparison,  ought  to  be,  as  we  believe  it  will  be,  a  book 
of  the  times,  suited  to  the  modern  demands  and  practices  of 
medicine  and  pharmacy  in  the  best  sense  of  the  words  and  at  the 
same  time  adapted  to  the  legislative  requirements  of  the  Govern- 
ment, which  supplements  the  united  efforts  of  physicians  and  phar- 
macists in  devising  approved  and  acceptable  standards  for  medicines 
by  giving  them  the  weight  and  authority  of  legal  standards. 
H.  K. 
THE  AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The  fifty-eighth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  was  held  at  the  Hotel  Jefferson  in  the  City  of  Rich- 
mond, May  3rd  to  7th. 
It  was  a  notable  convention  not  only  by  reason  of  the  amount 
of  Association  work  accomplished,  but  also  because  it  proved  to 
be  the  forum  for  the  discussion  of  pharmacopceial  matters,  so 
that  the  members  were  well  prepared  to  intelligently  discuss  and 
vote  upon  the  subjects  which  were  to  be  brought  in  a  concrete 
form  before  the  Pharmacopceial  Convention  the  week  following. 
The  large  number  of  papers  which  were  presented  in  the  various 
sections,  the  interesting  reports  from  the  various  standing  com- 
mittees, and  the  important  recommendations  from  the  Council, 
well  indicated  that  the  officers  of  the  Association  as  well  as  of  the 
several  sections  were  competent,  that  the  members  were  loyal,  and 
that  the  Association  truly  represented  the  activities  of  the  phar- 
macists of  the  United  States. 
The  weather  was  excellent,  the  surroundings  were  inspiring, 
and  enthusiasm  with  earnestness  characterized  the  entire  proceed- 
ings from  Tuesday  morning  till  Saturday  evening. 
