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sufficiently established and respected, to elicit regard to its 
suggestions and improved formulae. Sensible of the advan- 
tage which must result from the combined labors of the me- 
dical and pharmaceutical professions, and of the oversight 
which had been committed by a former Convention, in not 
inviting the attendance of a delegation from the Colleges of 
Pharmacy of our country, the late Convention remedies the 
neglect by the passage of a resolution, seeking our co-opera- 
tion; while in the schedule adopted as the constitution of the 
ensuing Convention, ample reparation is made, and due regard 
paid to the value and importance of a representation of prac- 
tical pharmacy. The Committee, then, is of opinion that no 
feeling of neglect should be indulged, but on the contrary, 
that the National Convention has paid a tribute of respect to 
our body, and an acknowledgement of our ability to aid it, by 
its official act above referred to. Indeed, independently of 
all other considerations, our duty as good citizens requires 
that we should contribute our aid in a work so important to 
the health and well being of our neighbors and society, and 
impels us to communicate, for the general good, whatever 
study or observation may have placed within our grasp. No 
sentiment of injured pride should counteract duties of such 
character as these, nor induce us to withhold information 
from an apprehension that our services in the general account 
may be overlooked. 
We regard the present as a favorable opportunity for as- 
serting and evincing the claims which our College possesses for 
regard and utility, and that by no means can these claims be 
so efficiently maintained as by an exhibition of her powers, 
her ability, her zeal, and her earnest efforts to do good. The 
whole labor of preparing our National Pharmacopoeia is a 
voluntary one, unattended by emolument or distinction for 
those who have undertaken it, and it becomes each of us to 
share in the burden, as we shall each share in the sole reward, 
a " mens sibi conscia recti," — -a mind conscious of having 
discharged its duty. 
The Committee waives all further argument upon this sub- 
