386  Revision  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia.  {^"'^7unJ!Y92'S: 
No  work  of  such  magnitude  has  ever  yet  been  free  from  error 
or  just  criticism.  It  is  gratifying  to  report,  therefore,  that  when 
an  official  hst  of  corrections  and  necessary  changes  was  issued  in 
1 91 9,  three  years  after  the  work  had  become  official,  only  loi  altera- 
tions were  reported,  a  small  number  indeed,  and  most  of  them 
were  of  minor  importance. 
On  January  i,  191 8,  Chairman  Remington  died  at  his  home  in 
Philadelphia.  He  was  immediately  succeeded  by  the  2nd  Vice- 
Chairman,  Dr.  Horatio  C.  Wood,  Jr.,  the  ist  Vice- Chairman  hav- 
ing died  some  time  previous. 
Following  the  procedure  of  the  previous  decade  when  a  similar 
situation  occurred,  Dr.  Wood  called  for  an  election  for  Chairman 
of  the  General  Committee  of  Revision,  and  upon  April  6,  191 8,  I, 
Charles  H.  LaWall,  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy  for  the  remainder 
of  the  ten-year  period  of  office. 
Death  had  fortunately  spared  the  Committee  during  the  early 
and  constructive  period  of  the  work,  only  one  death  having  oc- 
curred prior  to  1915,  that  of  Prof.  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  previously  re- 
ferred to.  The  other  deaths  which  occurred  during  the  decade 
were  as  follows: 
Mr.  Albert  Plant,  June  17,  1915. 
Mr.  M.  I.  Wilbert,  November  25,  1916. 
Dr.  W.  C.  Alpers,  February  20,  191 7. 
Prof.  C.  Lewis  Diehl,  March  25,  191 7. 
Dr.  J.  O.  Schlotterbeck,       June  i,  191 7. 
Prof.  Charles  Caspari,  Jr.,    October  13,  191 7. 
Dr.  John  H.  Long,  June  14,  191 8. 
Prof.  James  M.  Good,  May  15,  191 9. 
From  this  it  will  be  seen  that  out  of  the  fifty-one  members  of  the 
General  Committee  of  revision  ten,  or  20  per  cent.,  died  during  the 
decennial  period  for  which  they  had  been  elected. 
Early  in  the  summer  of  191 8  an  election  was  called  for  to  fill 
the  vacancies  occasioned  by  death  up  to  that  time.  Nominations 
were  made  of  candidates  and,  after  balloting,  the  following  eight 
members  were  elected: 
Prof.  B.  Fullerton  Cook,  Mr.  J.  K.  Lilly, 
Prof.  W.  B.  Day,  Dr.  L.  G.  Rowntree, 
Mr.  S.  L.  Hilton,  Mr.  L.  A.  Seltzer, 
Mr.  H.  P.  Hynson,  Prof.  W.  J.  Teeters. 
