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MINUTES OF THE COLLEGE. 
the medical profession feel in this subject, render it highly 
important and proper that this College should contribute the 
valuable aid of the experience and practical skill of its mem- 
bers, in the most efficient way: 
Therefore, Resolved, That this College acceding to this re- 
quest, will undertake to procure a revision of the United 
States Pharmacopoeia, to be submitted to the Committee of 
the Convention, to which all other projected amendments 
have been referred. 
Resolved, That a Committee of six members shall be ap- 
pointed, who shall be styled the Committee of Revision, and 
to whom shall be entrusted the entire charge of the work; to 
be subjected to the annexed provisions and regulations. 
1st. The Committee shall appoint a Secretary; and subdi- 
vide into sections of such size as shall contribute most advan- 
tageously to a division of the labor. 
2d. When thus organized, the Committee shall have power 
to fill vacancies; and invite the co-operation of members and 
graduates of the College. 
3d. The Committee shall hold stated meetings at least once 
in two weeks, at times to be selected by it. 
4th. The Secretary, who may be chosen from the College 
at large, or its graduates, shall keep a journal of proceedings, 
and arrange and compile the general results, so as to produce 
a systematic work. 
5th. The Committee shall subject the Pharmacopoeia to a 
thorough revision;— by adding to the Materia Medica such 
new remedies as use has established; — by removing obsolete 
or unworthy articles; — by adding to, and removing from the 
Preparations, in like manner and for like reasons; — by sug- 
gesting such amendments in formulae, as experience or inves- 
tigation may show to be proper; — by subjecting to experiment 
all such processes as, in their opinion, may require it, and ge- 
nerally shall make such alterations and amendments as in their 
best judgment may be needed, to bring the work up to the 
improved state of modern pharmacy, and to render it a type 
of the existing condition of the profession in this country. 
