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assign  the  subjects  submitted  for  revision,  to  individual  members  and 
ask  that  reports  be  made  promptly  to  the  chairman  of  the  sub-com- 
mittee, embodying  the  proposals  for  a  revised  text.  These  reports 
were  in  turn  submitted  to  the  entire  sub-committee  by  the  sub-com- 
mittee chairman  and  when  finally  approved,  placed  before  the 
Executive  Committee.  The  general  chairman  now  compiled  all 
comments  and  discussions,  submitted  by  the  members  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  and  these  were  published  before  the  entire  Executive 
Committee,  and  copies  sent  to  the  members  of  the  sub-committee 
which  had  submitted  the  original  report. 
When  practically  all  of  the  articles  submitted  to  a  sub-com- 
mittee had  been  reported  upon,  in  most  instances  arrangements 
were  made  for  the  members  of  the  sub-committee  to  hold  a  personal 
conference,  when  all  suggestions  or  adverse  criticisms  were  con- 
sidered, and  a  report  drawn  up  for  submission  to  the  General  Com- 
mittee. At  this  time,  the  chairman  of  the  General  Committee  again 
carefully  revised  the  copy  from  an  editorial  standpoint,  and  sub- 
mitted it  in  full,  as  proposed  for  inclusion  in  the  new  Pharmacopoeia, 
to  all  members  of  the  General  Committee. 
It  must  not  be  thought  that  the  General  Committee  had  no  part 
in  the  revision  up  to  this  time.  Many  subjects  of  general  interest, 
and  policies  and  principles  of  the  revision  had  been  placed  before 
the  General  Committee  and  the  work  proceeded,  all  comments  re- 
ceived from  many  sources  and  as  submitted  to  the  convention,  had 
been  published  in  the  general  committee  circulars.  Another  feature, 
which  proved  of  great  value  was  the  placing  of  monthly  "reports 
on  progress"  from  every  sub -committee,  before  the  General  Com- 
mittee. This  feature  of  the  revision  work  was  not  generally  known, 
but  the  general  chairman  sent  a  request  to  every  sub-committee 
chairman,  about  ten  days  before  the  end  of  each  month,  asking 
him  to  fill  out  an  enclosed  blank.  This  blank  covered  all  likely 
activities  of  the  sub-committee  during  the  month,  and  these  were 
compiled  and  submitted  regularly  to  the  General  Committee  as  al- 
ready indicated.  This  plan  increased  activity  in  the  sub-committees 
and  at  the  same  time  kept  the  General  Committee  familiar  with  all 
parts  of  the  work.  As  the  revision  work  is  largely  voluntary,  it 
was  found  desirable  to  use  this  publicity  method,  within  the  com- 
mittee, to  stimulate  progress. 
At  the  same  time  that  this  material  was  submitted  to  the  General 
Committee,  abstracts  of  proposed  changes  were  prepared  and  pub- 
