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with the obstructions, which at first lowered on the view. 
Encouraging and aiding each other by counsel and support, 
by mutual concession and deference, the meetings of the Com- 
mittee have been characterised with good feeling, confidence, 
and unanimity. No fixed adherence to predetermined views 
has ever marred the councils and prevented a general con- 
currence in the opinions and decisions of the Committee. 
Those who constituted the Committee have now no longer in 
prospect the pleasures of future deliberations and discussion, 
and it is thought important that you should be apprised that 
they part from each other with the most pleasant reminis- 
cences of the many hours which they passed together in 
delightful intercourse, and that all will lock with the most 
agreeable recollections to the good feeling and harmony which 
prevailed: creating intimacies, establishing confidence, and 
inviting regard, by developing the professional abilities, as 
well as social characteristics of their colleagues. For the 
many pleasures derived from this association, for the high 
trust deposited in their hands, and for the patient attention 
which their lengthened recital has received, they have to 
offer their acknowledgements to you, their constituents; and 
here resigning their trust, to ask at your hands, a discharge 
from further service. 
All of which is respectfully submitted by 
Wm. R. Fisher, 
E. Durand, 
Charles Ellis, 
Wm. W. Moore, 
Jos. C. Turnpenny, 
John C. Allen. 
Philadelphia, Nov., 1840. 
Whereas, The Committee of Revision, appointed on the 
30th of March last, has reported to this body an amended 
copy of the United States Pharmacopoeia, prepared in accord- 
ance with the provisions and instructions contained in the 
