AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.  497 
knowledge  and  skill  of  the  Northern,  Southern,  Eastern  and 
Western  States  in  a  preliminary  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
2d.  The  members  of  this  Committee  shall  transmit  to  its  Chair- 
man, at  least  two  months  before  the  assembling  of  the  Associa- 
tion, in  1858,  such  additions,  modifications  and  omissions  as  a 
careful  study  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and  their  knowledge  of  the 
wants  of  their  several  localities,  and  of  the  profession  at  large, 
may  suggest.    From  these  the  Chairman  shall  compile  a  report. 
3d.  At  the  meeting,  in  1858,  the  report  of  the  Committee  of 
ten  shall  be  received,  but  not  acted  on  finally  ;  it  shall  be  referred 
to  a  Committee  of  three,  elected  by  the  Association,  who  shall 
thoroughly  revise  it,  and  subject  each  item  to  criticism  and  the 
test  of  experiment.  They  shall,  at  their  discretion,  omit  or 
modify  any  of  its  parts,  and  make  report  at  the  meeting  in  1859, 
when  their  proposed  modification  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  shall  be 
finally  acted  on  by  the  Association,  and  if  adopted,  directed  to 
be  forwarded  to  the  Convention  for  revising  the  Pharmacopoeia, 
to  meet  in  Washington,  in  May,  1860. 
4th.  The  Association  not  being  included  in  the  classes  specified 
as  entitled  to  representation  in  the  Pharmacopoeial  Convention, 
it  is  recommended  that  the  report  or  the  revision,  after  being 
adopted  by  it,  shall  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  delegates  from 
one  of  the  Incorporated  Colleges  of  Pharmacy,  to  be  by  them 
offered  to  the  acceptance  of  the  Convention. 
Your  Committee  believe  that  whatever  might  be  the  fate  of 
the  modifications  suggested  in  this  way  to  the  Convention  and  its 
Committee,  good  would  undoubtedly  result  from  a  plan  adapted 
to  draw  out  so  free  an  expression  from  the  widely  separated 
localities  represented,  and  to  subject  these  to  a  rigid  examina- 
tion in  the  hands  of  a  competent  Committee  of  revision. 
Believing  that  this  Association,  representing,  as  it  does,  a 
large  body  of  those  for  whom  the  Pharmacopoeia  is  ordained, 
and  who  have  no  other  channel  through  which  to  be  represented 
in  its  revision,  will  naturally  be  looked  to,  in  the  future,  to  co- 
operate in  giving  authority  to  our  National  Code  ;  and  that  the 
important  interests  it  has  in  charge,  generally,  will  be  promoted 
by  giving  to  its  organization  the  sanction  of  law  and  such  a 
permanence  of  location  as  will  not  entirely  interfere  with  its 
migratory  character ;  it  is  suggested  that  a  charter  should  be 
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