Am.  Jour.  Pharru. 
June,  1900. 
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medical  facts  ;  he  wants  simply  to  know  what  laudanum  does  when  he  puts  it 
into  the  patient,  and  he  trusts  the  apothecary  to  give  him  laudanum  when  he 
calls  for  it. 
"  Be  these  things  as  they  may,  it  is  certain  that  the  present  condition  of  the 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia  is  one  of  great  prosperity.  The  book  itself  ranks 
with  the  best  of  its  predecessors  or  of  foreign  Pharmacopoeias,  representing  all 
that  was  oossible  in  1890.  Its  hold  upon  the  people  of  the  United  States  is 
more  firm  than  it  ever  was  before.  Its  salts  have  far  exceeded  those  of  any 
previous  edition,  and  for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  this  Association  the 
treasury  is  overflowing.  Indeed,  so  rich  have  we  become  that  the  greatest 
danger  which  threatens  the  Association  is,  to  my  thinking,  surplus  of  reve- 
nue.  *    *  * 
"Finally,  gentlemen  of  this  Convention,  a  word  and  I  have  finished.  As 
the  American  nation  of  1800  seems  to  us  to  have  been  but  a  handful  of  seed  of 
whose  growth  we  are  the  fruit,  so  will  those  who  shall  meet  here  in  the  year 
2000  think  of  the  American  people  of  to-day  as  a  small  body  from  which  they 
have  themselves  sprung.  We  live  but  for  the  momeut ;  100  years  from  now 
the  greatest  of  us  will  remain  only  as  fading  memories — as  men  whose  records 
have  "  been  so  overwritten  on  the  palimpsest  of  time  that  only  here  and  there 
can  a  sentence  be  deciphered.  So  it  ever  has  been  and  so  it  ever  shall  be  with 
the  human  race  ;  men  come  and  go  and  are  not ;  but  though  the  worker  disap- 
pears and  is  forgotten  the  work  lives  on.  Our  fathers  labored  and  we  have 
entered  into  their  labors.  Uet  us  see  to  it  that,  preserving  in  its  essential  lines  that 
which  has  come  to  lis,  and  adding  to  it  in  our  day  and  generation  as  strength 
is  given  us,  we  may  leave  for  the  coming  century  good  work  and  true,  which 
shall  remain  as  the  abiding  though  unrecognized  witness  of  our  earnest  living." 
The  President's  address  also  contained  a  number  of  recommendations  which 
were  subsequently  reported  upon  by  a  committee  consisting  of  H.  M.  Whelp- 
ley,  Joseph  P.  Remington,  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard  and  J.  C.  Cleeman.  The  follow- 
ing is  the  report  which  was  adopted  by  the.  Convention  : 
"  (1)  Your  committee  report  that  the  recommendation  to  hereafter  divide  the 
work  of  the  Committee  on  Revision  and  Publication  be  approved. 
"(2)  The  proposition  that  the  new  Committee  on  Revision  consist  of  twenty 
members  is  not  approved. 
"  Your  committee  believes  that  in  view  of  the  greatly  increased  demands  of 
the  country  the  number  of  this  committee  should  be  retained  at  twenty-five. 
"  (3)  The  suggestion  that  the  business  affairs  of  this  convention  during  the 
interim  be  delegated  to  a  board  of  five  members,  together  with  two  officers 
mentioned,  received  favorable  recommendation. 
"  (4)  We  recommend  the  incorporation  of  this  body  and  the  adoption  of  the 
constitution  and  by-laws  at  this  convention. 
"(5)  We  recommend  that  the  retiring  members  of  the  Seventh  Revision 
Committee  each  receive  an  honorarium  equivalent  to  $25  per  year  for  ten 
years  ;  the  same  amount  to  be  tendered  to  the  heirs  of  deceased  members. 
This  cannot  be  regarded  as  compensation  to  the  committee,  but  as  a  testimony 
for  faithful  services  performed." 
OFFICERS  OF  THE  PHARMACOPOEIA!,  CONVENTION  OF  1900. 
On  Wednesday  afternoon  the  Committee  on  Nominations  was  formed.  The 
committee  was  made  up  of  one  delegate  from  each  of  the  organizations  repre- 
