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NATIONAL MEDICAL CONVENTION. 
Convention, shall be referred to a Committee of revision and 
publication, consisting of seven members, three of whom shall 
form a quorum.' 
" 2. The Committee thus constituted, shall meet in Philadel- 
phia, and be convened as soon as practicable by its chairman. 
" 3. The Committee shall be authorized to request the co- 
operation of the Colleges of Pharmacy in the United States, 
to publish the work after the completion of the revision, and 
to take all other measures which they may deem necessary to 
carry into effect the object of the Convention. 
" 4. The Committee shall have power to fill its own vacan- 
cies. 
" 5. When the Committee shall have terminated their la- 
bors, they shall prepare a report of their procedings, and trans- 
mit it to the Secretary of this Convention, to be laid before 
the next Convention." 
All which is respectfully submitted. 
Franklin Bache, "] 
Jno. W. Davis, 
Wm. Bacon Stevens, [> Committee. 
Joshua J. Cohen, j 
Theophilus C. Dunn, J 
Washington, Jan. 3, 1840. 
The Convention then proceeded to choose the members of 
the Committee of revision and publication proposed in the 
above report, and Drs. Wood, Bache, Dunglison, Cohen, 
Dunn, Stevens, and Sewall, were appointed. 
The Committee whose duty it was to arrange a plan for the 
organization of the next Convention, for revising the Pharma- 
copoeia, made a report, which, at the suggestion of Dr. Ste- 
vens, was amended, so as to make the first Monday in May, 
1850, the time for the meeting of the Convention, instead of 
the first Monday in January, 1850. The report thus amend- 
ed, and modified in other respects to suit the change, was 
adopted by the Convention as follows: 
"The Committee appointed to suggest a plan for organizing 
the next Convention, report, that they have taken the subject 
into consideration, and ask leave to submit the following reso- 
