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ject, believing that sufficient reasons have now been assigned 
to establish the propriety of their recommendation, that the 
College should participate in the revision of the Pharmaco- 
poeia. They believe that every member will be disposed to 
assist, by adding his quota of experience or inquiry to the 
rnass, and that valuable and essential amendments must result 
from the combination of our pharmaceutical w.ith the medi- 
cal science of the nation. Entertaining these views, they 
conceive they should be doing injustice to the College, the 
profession, and the country, were they to recommend any 
other course than that which they have already announced. 
Having determined, then, what they should recommend as 
the proper action of the College upon the communication re- 
ferred to them, the Committee anxiously sought to devise a 
mode by which the action of the College, if undertaken, 
should be rendered prompt and efficient. This they have en- 
deavored to do by presenting a digested plan of operations, by 
which the Committee to be appointed hereafter on behalf of 
the College, shall be guided in the prosecution of their work. 
While they have endeavored so to frame this schedule or fun- 
damental law, by which the Committee is to be governed, as 
to ensure a proper direction to, and systematic arrangement 
of their labors, it will be observed that its terms are so gene- 
ral in their character as to put no restraint upon individual 
judgment, as regards the revision of the work, and that in 
every respect the private personal views of those who may 
constitute that Committee, are unfettered in regard to the 
amendments which they may propose, whether alterations, 
additions, or abstractions, be their character. The Committee, 
in preparing this outline, which they mean to propose for the 
organization of the Committee of Revision, has been guided 
by the best model within their reach, perhaps any where to 
be found, the plan pursued by the Medico-Pharmaceutical 
Board, which effected the revision of the Paris Codex. And 
they deem the excellence of the work emanating from their 
councils a sufficient argument for our adoption of their mode 
of organization. In those details which have not been com- 
