Am.  Jour.  Pharni. 
June,  1904. 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
301 
In  the  discussion  of  his  address  Mr.  Ross  said,  in  reply  to  a  ques- 
tion by  Professor  Sadtler,  that  the  metric  system  is  used  abroad 
altogether,  and  that  the  goods  made  by  his  firm  for  the  Eastern 
market  are  put  up  in  metric  quantities. 
Commenting  upon  trade  conditions  in  the  East,  Mr.  Ross  said  that 
he  had  visited  the  countries  all  the  way  from  South  Africa  to  Japan, 
and  had  found  American  goods  to  be  the  best  in  the  Eastern  market 
and  everywhere  in  demand.  In  addition  he  said  that  our  trade  with 
the  Orient  had  quadrpuled  within  the  last  fouryears. 
Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Chairman  of  the  U.S. P.  Revision  Com- 
mittee,  rea^j  a  paper  giving  some  of  the  salient  features  of "  The 
Forthcoming  Pharmacopoeia"  (see  page  253).  It  was  stated  that 
the  work  is  now  being  printed,  and  that  it  will  in  all  probability  be 
ready  in  October.  Professor  Remington  also  said  that  for  the  first 
time  in  the  history  of  pharmacopceial  revision  in  the  United  States 
the  work  is  being  revised  under  the  control  of  a  chartered  organiza- 
tion. Probably  one  of  the  most  conspicuous  changes  in  the  new 
book  will  be  the  introduction  of  doses. 
Replying  to  a  question  by  Dr.  Lowe,  Professor  Remington  said 
that  the  1890  U.S.  Pharmacopoeia  went  into  effect  ninety  days  after 
it  was  issued,  and  that  the  new  edition  would  probably  be  made 
effective  in  January,  1905.  He  said  that  it  was  important  to  have 
the  date  when  the  edition  becomes  authoritative  stated  on  the  title 
page. 
Mr.  Samuel  R.  Kennedy,  a  condensed-milk  manufactuturer  of 
Philadelphia,  read  a  paper  on  the  "  Condensed  Milks  of  Commerce," 
in  which  he  showed  that  the  quality  of  condensed  milk  depends  very 
largely  on  the  quality  of  the  cow's  milk  used  in  its  manufacture,  and 
said  that  in  order  to  secure  milk  of  the  proper  quality  the  con- 
densed-milk manufacturers  make  contracts  with  dairymen  stipulat- 
ing the  care  which  they  shall  exercise,  not  only  with  regard  to 
cleanliness,  but  also  as  to  the  kind  of  food  which  they  shall  give  the 
cows.  Speaking  of  the  uses  of  condensed  milk,  Mr.  Kennedy  said 
that  it  forms  a  body  for  many  food-products,  it  being  a  constituent  of1 
nearly  all  kinds  of  candy.  Owing  to  the  perishable  nature  of  cow's 
milk,  nearly  all  restaurants  use  condensed  milk,  which  is  diluted 
with  fresh  milk.  Another  advantage  which  this  milk  has  is  its 
property  of  curing  bad  coffee,  or  coffee  that  has  stood  for  some 
time. 
