MINUTES OF THE COLLEGE. 
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proportions emanating from the national representatives of 
Medicine and Pharmacy, in the results of whose counsels we 
may have perfect confidence, if we find all measures under- 
taken solely with a view to the general good, without party 
feeling, prejudice, or selfishness, all sections represented, and 
all sources of information opened for the examination and in- 
struction of all. 
To such a work we are now, for the first time, to bring our 
stores of professional acquisition, and it becomes us to do so 
without reserve or hesitation. Let us freely contribute our 
share to a work destined for our own information, and to some 
extent control, that we may have the cherished privilege en- 
joyed by the citizens of our happy land, in their civil capaci- 
ty, of living under laws of our own creation. So let it be with 
ourprofessional ordinances;letusparticipate in theirenactment, 
and then, as good citizens or subjects, we may implicitly and 
conscientiously obey them. 
In conclusion, the Committee will only add, that they 
submit their labors for the consideration of the College, 
conscious that they admit of examination and scrutiny, 
which, they trust, may be extended to them, in order that 
the action of the College may be rendered as complete 
and perfect as can be attained. Nothing but a sense of 
the consequences depending upon our first embarkation in 
such a cause, would have induced the Committee (or even jus- 
tified them in doing so) to have occupied so much spacein de- 
tailing their views. They cannot doubt but that their mo- 
tives will be appreciated, and that they will not be charged 
with having attached too much importance to the duties as- 
signed them. 
They close with recommending the annexed resolutions : — 
Whereas, The Committee for revising and publishing the 
U. S. Pharmacopoeia, has, in pursuance of a resolution of the 
National Convention, addressed this College, and requested 
the co-operation of the College in the work in which said 
Committee is engaged; and, whereas, the great importance of 
a uniform system in the nomenclature, and preparation of me- 
dicines, and the interest which the pharmaceutic, no less than 
