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REPORT ON THE PHARMACOPOEIA. 
posed that the identical copy, now prepared for reference, 
should be that which it is proposed to preserve among our 
archives. On the contrary, the Committee regard the work, 
as worthy of engrossment in a more durable and elegant form; 
that the whole may be collected in one volume, with its title 
and the occasion of its preparation suitably inscribed. This 
hasty copy prepared with despatch for the service of the 
Committee of the National Convention, your committee con- 
sider not sufficiently dignified and imposing in its exterior, to 
form the first of the elaborate and finished series of" Revised 
Pharmacopoeias," which they trust is to[decorate and enhance 
the value of our Library. The Committee trust that the re- 
solution which they present in regard to this subject will meet 
the approbation of the College. 
One further topic remains to be offered for your considera- 
tion. It has been thought expedient that a committee of the 
College should be appointed to take charge of the Journal of 
Amendments and specimens, to convey them to the Commit- 
tee of the National Convention, and to tender the further co- 
operation of the College, if a further joint action be needed. A 
resolution is appended, providing for the appointment of such 
a representation of our Institution, and awaits your approba- 
tion or dissent. 
Before concluding, thejCommittee deem it not irrelevant or 
out of place to say, that in reviewing the result of their labors, 
and venturing a glance towards futurity, they could not but 
be struck with the importance of the consequences which may 
flow from the combined and harmonious action of the repre- 
sentatives of the two professions, now for the first time acting in 
open and intimate connection, for the exalted purpose of 
preparing a code that will insure to the community, through 
the agency of the medical and pharmaceutical corps, the 
aid to be derived from every late improvement. 
Animated by the most philanthropic motives, each has 
brought to the task all the light which long and enlightened 
experience, mature and deliberate observation, ingenious and 
well-directed research could communicate, illuming and ban- 
