S REMARKS ON THE RE VISION OF THE PHARMACOPEIA. 
fession. The annual accumulation of these would form 
the nucleus of a future library, and perhaps be the humble 
means of inciting efforts for self improvement, the results 
of which may not be confined in their utility by the bound- 
aries of our country, or the waters of the Atlantic. Our 
journal would then avoid the reproach to which it is some- 
times obnoxious, of being a mere reprint of foreign periodi- 
cals, and with the increased number of zealous observers, 
not only would it rise in character and importance, but 
similar publications would originate in other localities, 
bearing on their pages the impress of scientific acquirements 
of a respectable order. 
But to the object in view. It is hardly probable, in 
the short time which will elapse before the next revision, 
that much local change will be effected in the way sug- 
gested, even if the parties should concur ; but it lies in the 
power of every apothecary or phvsician who may have 
improvements or criticisms to offer, to contribute something 
towards the work in his individual capacity, by presenting 
his views in a communication to this journal ; which from 
its central location, general circulation, and as being the 
only purely pharmaceutical organ in this country, is pe- 
culiarly fitted for the object, if such a course were adopted 
and pursued during the four ensuing years the whole 
ground of the Pharmacopoeia might be gone over, and a 
fund of useful hints and suggestions collected ready for the 
action of those, to whom the Convention of 1850 shall dele- 
gate the revision. 
Whilst on this subject it may be apposite to observe, that 
in one important feature the Pharmacopoeia of 1S40 differs 
from its predecessors, viz.: in the employment of the method 
of displacement in the preparation of certain vinegars, ex- 
tracts, syrups, tinctures and wines. Inasmuch as the intro- 
duction of this method into pharmaceutical operations was 
of recent date, and a knowledge of its application by no 
means general, the revisors of the Pharmacopoeia, whilst 
