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guidance. Far be it from this Committee to assert that such 
a course as is here recommended is faultless, and unsusceptible 
of improvement, but they do say such amendments have not 
occurred to themselves, and that in the plan offered is a good 
basis upon which experience may erect an improved struc- 
ture. 
But little more remains to be said, on this subject, but the 
Committee cannot refrain from directing the attention of the 
College to the fact, that in each branch of the proposed plan 
to which reference has been made, ample room for individual 
judgment has been reserved, and that the independent exercise 
of sound discretion is left untrammelled. In the choice of their 
Secretary, in their subdivision into minor committees, in de- 
termining the period at which they shall convene and com- 
mune, in looking abroad and around for coadjutors, in deter- 
mining what shall be submitted to experiment, and how those 
experiments shall proceed, in completing their work with a 
speed consistent with its proper execution, as great a range 
for the display of discretion and judgment, of intellect and 
industry, is afforded as can be at all desired by the most in- 
dependent, or restive of restraint, among us. As members of 
the College, however, all those who may constitute the Com- 
mittee, will have, indeed, at this moment enjoy, the right to 
propose any alteration, which may be thought desirable or 
necessary. 
The Committee leave this branch of the subject, under a 
firm consciousness that their motives, at all events, in recom- 
mending what they do, are incapable of being impugned for 
faithlessness, to the true interests or honor of the College. 
In regard to the extent to which the revision of the Pharma- 
copoeia shall be carried, the Committee have nothing to say, 
conceiving that inquiry to belong exclusively to the Com- 
mittee of Revision, and not to be at all within the sphere of 
their duties. Not in this light, however, did they regard an 
inquiry into the means and resources which the College pos- 
sesses for carrying on the revision, as it would be needless in 
them to recommend the inception of a labor, which at the 
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