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The  plan  which  has  been  working  can  be  continued,  and  reform  accomplished  there 
much  better  than  in  the  proposed  plan  of  Dr.  Squibb. 
But  what  I  think  has  been  peculiar  is  this,  in  regard  to  its  introduction,  which 
was  first  for  adoption  and,  finally,  for  discussion  only.  It  seems  to  me  the  matter 
was  sprung  upon  us  rather  curiously.  I  think  the  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  should  ex- 
press themselves  decidedly  in  this  matter. 
The  gentleman  has  referred  to  the  instructions  of  the  Convention  to  the  com- 
mittee being  entirely  disregarded.  I  had  hoped  to  ask  whether  there  were  not  some 
other  recommendations  that  were  not  totally  disregarded.  I  would  also  state,  that 
as  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  for  the  Pharmaceutical  Association,  I 
have  just  issued  a  circular  to  the  Committee  on  Revision,  and  it  will  also  be  sent  to 
every  member  of  the  Association,  in  which  the  resolutions  of  the  eommittee  are 
printed;  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  members  of  the  Association  will  most  heartily 
render  aid  and  assistance  in  carrying  out  the  revision.  And  when  we  meet  next 
summer  there  will  be  some  practical  results  of  the  work  at  which  we  have  been  en- 
gaged for  the  past  two  or  three  years,  but  of  which  we  have  done  but  little. 
Prof.  Remington.  In  regard  to  the  question  which  Dr.  Thomas  brings  up  as 
to  the  matter  of  revising  the  "  Pharmacopoeia  "  formulas  down  to  one  universal 
plan,  quantities  by  weight  and  parts  by  weight,  doubtless  at  the  next  revision  we 
shall  not  only  have  that  reform  instituted,  but  also  the  introduction  of  the  metrical 
system.  The  recent  discussions  upon  the  advantages  of  the  use  of  this  system  have 
resulted  in  awakening  the  pharmaceutical  mind  all  over  this  country,  as  to  the  de- 
sirability of  introducing  it  into  the  "  Pharmacopoeia  ;"  and  I  for  one  cannot  see  how 
the  next  Committee  of  Revision  can  fail  to  adopt  both  of  these  reforms.  This  stir- 
ring up  that  Dr.  Squibb  has  given  us  I  cannot  help  but  regard  as  a  very  good  thing, 
for  we  have  crept  on  too  much  in  the  old  way.  If  it  results  in  the  rejection 
entirely  of  his  plan,  as  it  seems  likely  it  will  do — for  all  the  Convention  has  to  do  is 
to  hold  its  meeting  at  the  regular  time — at  that  time,  I  have  no  doubt,  we  will  see  a 
very  great  change  in  the  revision. 
Prof.  Bedford.  I  would  state  one  point  :  that  last  summer  the  recommenda- 
tions of  the  sub-committee,  composed  of  Mr.  Balluff  and  myself,  to  approve  rules 
for  the  guidance  of  the  committee  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Association,  were  pub- 
lished in  the  "  Druggists1  Circular,"  and  it  was  asserted  by  Dr.  Squibb  in  the  meet- 
ing that  took  place  here,  that  this  gave  rise  to  the  belief  that  the  Pharmaceutical 
Association  were  revising  the  "  Pharmacopoeia  j"  but  the  peculiar  point  I  want 
to  bring  out  is,  that  to  the  invitation  which  was  extended  to  pharmacists  to  com- 
municate alterations  and  amendments  to  the  committee,  I  got  exactly  one  reply. 
Thomas  S.  Wiegand.  There  are  on  the  desk  the  reports  of  three  different  de- 
cennial preliminary  revisions  of  the  "  Pharmacopoeia,"  made  by  committees  of  this 
College.  It  will  give  some  idea  of  the  amount  of  labor  that  this  College  of  Phar- 
macy has  been  in  the  habit  of  putting  before  the  Decennial  Convention  for  the 
revision  of  the  "  Pharmacopoeia."  Dr.  Squibb  says,  very  wisely  and  justly,  that  the 
profession  of  medicine  cannot  do  without  pharmacy  in  the  work  of  revision.  He 
knows  very  well  what  work  has  been  done  by  the  pharmacists  ;  and  it  is  in  this 
connection,  as  an  evidence,  that  I  have  brought  before  this  meeting  three  different 
reports  by  our  College,  which  have  been  to  Washington  and  been  considered  by 
