NATIONAL MEDICAL CONVENTION. 
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Dr. Wood offered the following proposition, which was 
adopted. 
Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to report a plan 
for the organization of the next Convention for revising the 
Pharmacopoeia. 
It was ordered that the Committee consist of three mem- 
bers, to be named by the President ; and Drs. Wood, Sewall, 
and Dunglison, were appointed. 
The Committee to whom the documents from the College 
of Physicians of Philadelphia were referred, and whose duty 
it was to arrange a plan by which the revision and publication 
of the Pharmacopoeia might be carried into effect, made the 
following report, which, with the accompanying resolution, 
was adopted by the Convention : 
"The Committee are of opinion, that the labors of revision, 
constituting the communication from the College of Physi- 
cians, would form a proper basis for the new Pharmacopoeia ; 
and that this communication and all others that shall be re- 
ceived from bodies which have appointed delegates to this 
Convention, should be referred to a committee of revision and 
publication to meet in Philadelphia as soon as practicable. 
As it is desirable that the committee here proposed should 
have the assistance of pharmaceutical bodies, it is recommend- 
ed that authority be given to it to request the co-operation of 
Colleges of Pharmacy in the United States. A revising 
Committee thus constituted, and clothed with power to fill 
their own vacancies, to publish the work after the completion 
of the revision, and to take order on all incidental measures 
necessary to carry out the objects of the Convention, would, 
in the opinion of this Committee, form a body, to which the 
revision and publication of the Pharmacopoeia might be safely 
trusted. To carry out these views, the Committee recom- 
mend the adoption of the following resolutions by the Con- 
vention : 
"1. The communication from the College of Physicians of 
Philadelphia, and all other communications which may be 
received from bodies that have appointed delegates to this 
