38o 
Revision  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1920. 
No.  Title. 
1 1    Syrups  and  Elixirs 
Chairman. 
W.  C.  Alpers 
12  Cerates  and  Ointments 
13  Miscellaneous  Galenicals 
14  Tables,  Weights,  Measures 
15  Nomenclature 
Otto  Raubenheimer 
C.  S.  N.  Hallberg 
A.  B.  Lyons 
Chas.  Caspari,  Jr. 
Members. 
Alpers,  Beringer, 
D  i  e  h  1,  Diekman, 
Eberle,  England, 
Francis,  Nixon 
Alpers,  Diekman, 
Eberle,  England, 
Good,  Hopp, 
Raubenheimer 
Arny,  Bodemann,  Hall- 
berg, Hopp,  Nixon, 
Raubenheimer, 
Sayre,  Wilbert 
Kebler,La  Wall,  Lyons, 
Stevens,  Wilbert 
Caspari,    Jr.,  Cohen, 
Good,  Hallberg,  Os- 
borne, Plaut,  Rusby, 
Wilbert 
On  October  22,  1910,  death  removed  Prof.  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg, 
Chairman  of  the  Sub-committee  No.  13.  His  place  upon  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  was  immediately  filled  by  the  selection  of  Mr. 
Wilhelm  Bodemann,  and  the  vacancy  in  the  General  Committee  of 
Revision  was  filled  by  the  election  of  Prof.  A.  H.  Clark,  on  January 
7,  1911. 
No  other  deaths  occurred  in  the  Executive  Committee  during 
the  active  period  of  the  work  of  revision,  which  lasted  until  the 
surnmer  of  191 6.  The  work  of  the  General  Committee  and  of  the 
various  sub-committees  was  mainly  carried  on  by  correspondence. 
One  fairly  representative  personal  conference  participated  in  by  a 
majority  of  the  members  of  the  General  Committee  of  Revision 
was  held  during  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  on  August  15,  191 1.  Several 
official  and  numerous  unofficial  meetings  were  held  of  important 
sub-committees  during  the  active  period  of  work,  but  in  the  main 
the  entire  operation  of  revision  was  conducted  by  the  method  in 
use  during  the  preceding  decade — that  of  mimeographed  circulars 
and  letters  and  a  definite  procedure  of  debating  questions  and  col- 
lecting and  recording  votes. 
We  can  form  some  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  this  stupendous  un- 
dertaking when  we  glance  at  the  statistics  of  the  work  as  expressed 
in  pages  of  material  issued  during  the  decade,  most  of  which  was 
sent  out  prior  to  1916. 
