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EDITORIAL. 
tion, adopted by that of the year 1840, and published in the last 
edition of the Pharmacopoeia, should be adopted, with the necessary 
modifications in relation to the dates; the day of meeting beinn- 
changed from the first Monday to the first Wednesday in May. 
A letter was read inviting the members of the convention to a 
dinner, to be given at the National Hotel, by the medical gentlemen 
of Washington and Georgetown. The invitation was accepted, and 
the thanks of the convention voted to the gentlemen referred to for 
their hospitality. 
The thanks of the convention were also unanimously voted to Dr. 
Lewis Condict, President of the last convention, for valuable ser- 
vices; and to the Board of Aldermen, of the city of Washington, for 
their courtesy in offering their hall for the sittings of the convention. 
The convention then adjourned. 
After its adjournment. Dr. William B. Chapman, one of the dele- 
gates from the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, arriving in Washing- 
ton, stated to the Secretary his concurrence in the proceedings of the 
convention. Harvey Lindley, M. D., 
Secretary of the Convention. 
It will be perceived that the profession of Pharmacy was represented 
in the Convention, and that a part of the Revising Committee are 
pharmaceutists. It may interest some of our readers to know that this 
Committee has been organized and has commenced its labors. For 
the information of the members of the Convention, and others who 
may feel an interest in the object of its appointment, we will stale 
that the Committee meets every Thursday evening in this city. As it 
is desirable that the work should be national in its character, and em- 
brace within its contents well digested formula? suited to the established 
wants of all sections of our country, the joint medical and pharmaceu- 
tical interests of places not represented by the delegations above indi- 
cated, should make known to the Committee such important formulas 
and facts as may in their opinion be worthy of its consideration. 
General Index. — Our readers will perceive that the General Index 
to the American Journal of Pharmacy, commenced in the last number, 
is completed in the present. Subscribers would do well to have the 
Index bound with the current volume, or what is much better, bound 
separately so as to be more easy of reference. The utility of this 
work to those who have frequent occasion to refer to the Journal will 
be immense; and even where it is used but occasionally, to find a 
formula, or to verify a statement, its convenience will be readily 
acknowledged. As our friend Alfred B. Taylor, to whose industry 
we owe the pleasure of presenting the Index to our readers, declines 
attaching his name to it, we take this means of informing them to 
whom they are indebted. 
