june.^Jg^b^^^'""'}      The  Pharmacopoeial  Convention.  367 
THE  PHARMACOPOEIAL  CONVENTION. 
On  Tuesday  morning,  May  11,  the  delegates  composing  the 
United  States  Pharmacopoeial  Convention  for  the  Tenth  Revision 
of  the  U.  S.  P.,  assembled  in  the  ballroom  of  the  New  Willard  Hotel 
in  Washington.  Shortly  after  10  a.m.,  the  appointed  hour,  the 
President,  Dr.  Harvey  W.  Wiley,  called  the  convention  to  order 
and  the  business  of  the  assemblage  was  proceeded  with  in  a  most 
expeditious  manner.  Beyond  the  appointment  of  delegates  from 
the  several  departments  of  the  government  service  represented, 
official  Washington  took  no  cognizance  of  an  important  gathering 
of  professional  and  scientific  experts  for  the  explicit  purpose  of 
performing  a  most  valuable  service  to  the  American  people,  the 
preparation  of  the  standards  for  the  most  commonly  dispensed 
medicines  and  which  by  the  laws  of  Congress  and  many  of  the 
States,  become  the  official  standards  of  the  country  for  drugs. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Credentials  was  read  by  Sec- 
retary M.  G.  Motter  and  showed  no  contests  and  required  only  a 
few  corrections.  It  exhibited,  however,  a  pathetic  ambition  on  the 
part  of  some  pharmacists  to  be  admitted  as  delegates  to  this  conven- 
tion. Proxies  and  credentials  from  distant  organizations,  by  some 
agency,  found  their  way  to  persons  who  were  recorded  as  delegates 
of  such  bodies  with  which  prior  to  this  perambulation  they  had  not 
the  slightest  acquaintance  and  with  which  they  were  in  no  way 
whatever  associated. 
President  Wiley  called  Fifth  Vice-President  Dr.  W.  A.  Bastedo 
to  the  chair  and  read  his  presidential  address  which  on  motion  was 
referred  to  a  committee  for  consideration  and  report  at  the  subse- 
quent meeting.  This  was  followed  by  the  reports  of  the  chairman 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  convention, 
the  latter  showing  a  very  comfortable  balance  available  for  the 
expenses  of  the  convention  and  revision. 
The  report  of  Chairman  LaWall  for  the  Committee  of  Revision  was 
read  and  this,  and,  likewise,  the  President's  address  contained  touch- 
ing references  to  the  services  of  the  late  Chairman  Remington  and 
tributes  to  his  work.  On  motion  the  president  appointed  Dr.  S. 
Solis-Cohen,  Charles  H.  LaWall  and  George  M.  Beringer  as  a  com- 
mittee to  prepare  a  minute  expressing  the  sentiments  of  this  con- 
vention on  the  decease  of  Chairman  Remington.  In  connection 
with  his  report  Chairman  LaWall  read  a  paper  prepared  by  E. 
