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U.S. P.  National  Convention. 
Am.  .Tour.  Pharm. 
June,  1900. 
sented,  and  devoted  the  entire  evening  to  their  work  of  making  nominations 
for(i)  Officers  of  the  Convention;  (2)  The  Committee  on  Revision;  (3)  The 
newly-created  Board  of  Trustees. 
On  Thursday  morning  the  report  of  the  Nominating  Committee  was  read  by 
F.  G.  Ryan,  and  the  nominees  were  duly  elected  by  a  vote  cast  by  the  Secre- 
.  tary .    The  following  is  the  list  of  officers  of  the  Pharmacopceial  Convention  of 
1900  : 
Officers  of  the  Convention.— President,  Horatio  C.  Wood,  of  Phila- 
delphia ;  Vice-Presidents,  A.  B.  Prescott,  of  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.;  O.  A.  Wall,  of 
St.  Louis  ;  R.  W.  Wilcox,  of  New  York  ;  N.  S.  Davis,  Jr.,  of  Chicago,  and  A. 
L.  Lengfeld,  of  San  Francisco  ;  Secretary,  H.  M.  Whelpley,  of  St.  Louis  ; 
Assistant  Secretary,  W.  G.  Motter,  District  of  Columbia  ;  Treasurer,  William 
Mew,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
Committee  of  Revision. — Charles  Rice,  New  York  ;  E.  H.  Squibb,  Brook- 
lyn ;  J.  P.  Remington,  Philadelphia  ;  Charles  Caspari,  Baltimore ;  W.  G. 
Gregory,  Buffalo  ;  N.  S.  Davis,  Jr.,  Chicago  ;  James  M.  Good,  St.  Louis  ;  George 
F.  Payne,  Atlanta;  Edward  Kremers,  Madison,  Wis.;  S.  P.  Sadtler,  Philadel- 
phia ;  Henry  Kraemer,  Philadelphia  ;  H.  A.  Hare,  Philadelphia  ;  L.  E.  Sayer, 
Lawrence,  Kan.;  A.  B.  Stevens,  Ann  Arbor  ;  A.  B.  Lyons,  Detroit  ;  C.  Lewis 
Diehl,  Louisville  ;  Oscar  Oldberg,  Chicago  ;  John  Marshall,  Philadelphia  ;  W. 
S.  Haines,  Chicago  ;  J.  J.  Abel,  New  York  ;  Virgil  Coblentz,  New  York  ;  W. 
B.  Scoville,  Boston;  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  Chicago;  A.  R.  L.  Dohme,  Baltimore  ; 
R.  W.  Wilcox,  New  York,  and  the  President  of  the  Convention,  ex-officio. 
Board  of  Trustees.— A.  E.  Ebert,  Chicago  ;  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  Boston  ; 
William  S.  Thompson,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Charles  E.  Dohme,  Baltimore; 
George  W.  Sloan,  Indianapolis. 
GENERAL  PRINCIPLES  TO  BE  FOLLOWED  IN  REVISING  THE 
PHARMACOPOEIA. 
In  accordance  with  the  instructions  of  the  Convention  of  1890,  Joseph  P. 
Remington  presented,  on  behalf  of  the  Committee  of  Revision,  created  by 
that  body,  a  draft  of  a  plan  for  revising  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  1900.  This,  with 
some  slight  modifications,  was  finally  adopted,  as  herewith  presented  : 
I.  SCOPE  OF  THE  PHARMACOPOEIA. 
The  Committee  of  Revision  is  authorized  to  admit  into  the  Pharmacopoeia 
any  product  of  nature  of  known  origin  ;  also  any  synthetized  product  of  defi- 
nite composition  which  is  in  common  use  by  the  medical  profession,  the  iden- 
tity, purity  or  strength  of  which  can  be  determined.  No  compound  or  mixture 
shall  be  introduced  if  the  composition  or  mode  of  manufacture  thereof  be  kept 
secret,  or  if  it  be  controlled  by  unlimited  proprietary  or  patent  rights. 
2.  DOSES. 
After  each  pharmacopceial  article  (drug,  chemical  or  preparation)  which  is 
used  or  kkely  to  be  used  internally  or  hypodermically,  the  committee  is  in- 
structed to  state  the  average  approximate  (but  neither  a  minimum  nor  a  maxi- 
mum )  dose  for  adults,  and,  where  deemed  advisable,  also  for  children,  in  the 
metric  system,  with  the  approximate  equivalent  in  apothecaries'  weights  and 
measures.  It  is  to  be  distinctly  understood  that  neither  this  Convention  nor 
the  Committee  of  Revision  created  by  it  intends  to  have  these  doses  regarded 
