368  The  Pharmacopoeial  Convention.       l^""- ■^°j;ne^Y92'o: 
FuUerton  Cook  on  "The  Machinery  of  the  Pharmacopoeial  Revision," 
containing  a  number  of  suggestions  for  the  expediting  of  the  revision. 
The  convention  referred  these  to  the  incoming  revision  committee. 
(The  report  of  Chairman  La  Wall  appears  in  this  number  of  the 
American  JournaIv  of  Pharmacy  and  the  paper  of  Prof.  E.  Fuller- 
ton  Cook,  embodying  the  suggestions  made  to  the  convention,  was 
published  last  month.) 
The  several  amendments  to  the  Constitution  and  By-Laws  recom- 
mended by  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  which  had  been  published 
in  advance  in  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  journals,  were  adopted 
as  offered. 
The  Committee  on  Nominations  was  then  selected,  each  dele- 
gation, as  the  organization  was  called  by  the  Secretary,  naming  its 
representative  thereon,  and  the  meeting  adjourned  till  Wednesday 
morning. 
At  the  second  session,  held  on  Wednesday  a.m.,  the  Committee  on 
President's  Address  made  its  report  recommending  that  this  be 
published  and  given  a  wide  distribution.  The  committee  to  draft 
an  appropriate  minute  concerning  the  decease  of  Chairman  Rem- 
ington submitted  the  following,  which  was  adopted  by  a  rising  vote 
in  silence. 
"The  Pharmacopoeial  Convention  assembled  for  the  tenth 
decennial  revision,  deeply  mourns  that  Professor  Joseph  P.  Rem- 
ington, Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Revision,  who  bore  the  brunt 
and  burden  of  the  labor  of  the  revision  was  called  from  this  life  on 
January  i,  191 8,  before  this  body  could  express  its  appreciation  for 
his  painstaking  efforts  in  the  eighth  and  ninth  revisions,  by  which 
the  scientific  standing  of  the  volume  was  advanced  and  its  leading 
position  in  the  pharmacopoeias  of  the  world  established.  No  man 
can  have  a  nobler  monument  than  has  Joseph  P.  Remington  in  this 
work. 
"This  Convention  records  its  deep  sense  of  the  loss  which  the 
pharmacopoeia  and  the  professions  whose  interests  this  work  serves, 
sustained  in  his  demise,  and  their  obligation  for  the  unselfish  ser- 
vice, the  many  sacrifices,  and  the  devotion  to  the  pharmacopoeia 
continuously  manifested  throughout  his  many  years  of  association 
with  the  work  of  the  revision. 
"This  assemblage  attests  its  esteem  for  his  character,  its  love 
for  his  personality,  its  admiration  for  his  learning  and  extends  to  his 
