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mending a tariff of standards for the use of Drug Inspectors — which it 
was proposed to bring before the National Medical Association, to meet on 
the 6th of May, at Charleston, S. C, that its influence might be brought 
to bear with Congress. 
Owing to the short notice given, the delegates from other Colleges did 
not arrive to take part in the proceedings, but several of them forwarded 
communications expressive of their approval of the object in view. The 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy appointed a committee who were em- 
powered as delegates, should they be able to get to New York, or if not, 
to forward such a paper as should express the sense of the College. It was 
the general opinion of the members present, that the subject merited the 
serious attention of the College, but that the time (four days) was too 
short to accomplish anything. 
The delegates from the New York College, adopted the following report 
of their Board of Trustees, and forwarded it by Dr. C. B. Guthrie,* 
to the meeting of the National Medical Association, at Charleston, 
S. C, viz: 
To the Board of Trustees of the College of Pharmacy of the City of 
Kew York, 
The Delegates appointed to attend the proposed convention of the several 
Colleges of Pharmacy, to consider of, and recommend standards for certain 
Imported Drugs, report : That they have given attention to their duties and 
have endeavored to arrange the order of their proceedings for bringing the 
subject under their care before the Convention. 
They have, in a general way, and for the purpose of this enquiry, clas- 
sified the great variety of Imported Drugs and Medicinal Preparations, in 
the hope of deciding, as nearly as practicable, upon the qualities of genu- 
ineness, purity and strength, which they ought to possess to answer the in- 
tention of the Law of Congress, and secure to the community reliable 
medicines in those substances and manufactures which our necessities com- 
♦Since writing the'above, we were a little surprised, in conversation with a mem- 
ber of the Medical Association, which recently met at Charleston, to learn, thatDr. 
Guthrie went to that body as a. delegate from the New York College of Pharmacy, 
knowing as we did, that that body was strictly medical in its constitution. It is 
to be regretted that our sister Institution should have committed this oversight, as 
it was the occasion of considerable discussion, resulting in the passage of a resolu- 
tion expressly declaring the ineligibility of delegates from Colleges of Pharmacy 
and Dentistry, for members of the Association. 
We are also informed that the communication of the College, instead of coming 
forward as a distinct proposition from that body to the Association, as it should 
have done, was incorporated with the Report of the Committee on Adulterated 
Drugs, &c, which Report was so badly prepared, as to be refused publication in 
the minutes of the Association, and was laid on the table, carrying with it in its 
rejection, the important proposition from New York. 
