EDITORIAL. 
2S5 
Convention were then called on for contributions towards the revi- 
sion of the Pharmacopoeia ; when reports were handed in from the 
delegates of the .Rhode Island Medical Society, from the College of 
Pharmacy of the City of New York, from the College of Physicians 
of Philadelphia, from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and 
from the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. These re- 
ports were referred to a committee, consisting of Dr. Bond, Dr. 
Mauran, Dr. Cohen. Dr. Miller and Mr. Milhau, with directions to 
report a plan for the revision and publication of the Pharmaco- 
poeia; after which the convention adjourned to the following day. 
At the next meeting, on Tuesday morning, a committee was 
appointed to examine the accounts and vouchers presented by the 
Committee of Revision and Publication of the preceding convention, 
and reported that they had found them correct. 
Dr. Bond, from the committee to which had been referred the 
reports from various medical bodies represented in the convention, 
reported the following resolutions: 
1. That a Committee of Revision and Publication, consisting of nine 
members, be appointed, to which shall be referred all communi- 
cations offered to the convention in relation to the revision of the 
Pharmacopoeia, and that three of this committee shall form a quorum. 
2. That the committee shall meet in the city of Philadelphia, and 
be convened as soon as practicable by the chairman. 
3. That said committee shall be authorized to publish the work 
after its revision, and to take all other measures which may be neces- 
sary to carry out the views and intentions of the convention. 
4. That the committee shall have power to fill its own vacancies. 
5. That, after the completion of its labors, the committee shall 
submit a report of its proceedings to the Secretary of this convention, 
to be laid before the next convention. 
These resolutions were adopted, and the following delegates ap- 
pointed on the committee, viz. : Dr. Franklin Bache, Dr. Joseph Car- 
son and Mr. William Procter, Jr., of Philadelphia; Dr. Joseph Mau- 
ran, of Providence, Rhode Island; Mr. John Milhau, of the City of 
New York; Dr. J. W. Thompson, of Wilmington, Delaware; Dr. 
David Stewart, of Baltimore; Dr. Joshua Riley, of the District of Co- 
lumbia ; and Dr. G. N. Fitch, of Logansport, Indiana. 
It was resolved that the President of the convention be added to 
the above committee, and serve as its chairman. 
[Mr. Coggeshall suggested the propriety of restoring the Latin 
version of the Pharmacopoeia as it existed previously to the revision 
of 1840, as recommended in the report of the New York College of 
Pharmacy. After a full and spirited discussion of the question in 
point of expediency, in which the increasing disposition of Pharma- 
copceial authorities to drop the classical and adopt the vernacular 
was shown, the recommendation was unanimously negatived.'] 
In reference to the manner of calling and the mode of consti- 
stuting the next decennial convention, to meet in the year 1860, it 
was 
Resolved, That the regulations in reference to the present conven- 
