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REPORT ON THE PHARMACOPOEIA. 
While asking such an unlimited trust in the faithful and 
correct discharge of their duties, the Committee hope to be 
enabled to establish their claim thereto by the exhibition of 
ih? general principles by which their proceedings have been 
governed, as well as the particular mode in which the revision 
and amendment has been conducted. In addition to the 
insight which such a narative may give into the merits of the 
work which they have prepared, the Committee have the 
high satisfaction of exhibiting, in the actual result of formulae, 
such evidence of their value as can with truth be said to be 
irrefutable. In the collection of specimens now before you, 
the Committee believe such evidence to exist, and they cheer- 
fully rely upon the testimony of these mute witnesses to 
establish the claim which they prefer, for the confidence and 
reliance of their constituents, in other portions of their work 
not equally susceptible of demonstration. With this intima- 
tion the Committee will require the continued confidence of 
the College in the faithful execution of their trust, of which 
they consider their appointment an earnest. The Committee 
proceed to expose as much in detail as would prove useful 
and interesting, their action, and its results. 
The proceedings of the Committee are recorded in two 
distinct journals, a division rendered necessary, by the entirely 
different character of the matter to be enrolled. These records 
are entitled, respectively, " The Journal of Amendments," 
and " Minutes of the proceedings of the Committee of Revi- 
sion." The former containing purely professional matter ; 
the latter a record designed to present a history of the organisa- 
tion and action of the Committee. The Journal of Amendments 
in a systematic arrangement, details all the amendments of 
which the Committee recommend the adoption, together with 
the reasons which urged their proposal, and is therefore that 
portion of the work of the Committee which is to be subjected 
to the judgment of the Committee of the National Convention. 
The minutes of proceeding afford a faithful history of all that has 
occurred in the Committee since its appointment. A perusal of 
the two records will place within the knowledge of any one cu- 
