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lutions, which, with a few modifications, are the same as 
those adopted in 1830, for the organization of the present 
Convention. 
" 1. The President of this Convention shall, on the first 
day of May, 1849, issue a notice, requesting the several in- 
corporated State Medical Societies, the incorporated Medical 
Colleges, the incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Sur- 
geons, and the incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy, through- 
out the United States, to elect a number of delegates, not ex- 
ceeding three, to attend a general Convention to be held at 
Washington, on the first Monday in May, 1850. 
" 2. The several incorporated bodies thus addressed shall 
also be requested by the President to submit the Pharma- 
copoeia to a careful revision, and to transmit the result of their 
labors, through their delegates, or through any other channel, 
to the next Convention. 
" 3. The several medical and pharmaceutical bodies shall be 
further requested to transmit to the President of this Conven- 
tion the names and residences of their respective delegates as 
soon as they shall have been appointed, a list of whom shall 
be published, under his authority, for the information of the 
medical public, in the newspapers and medical journals, in the 
month of March, 1850. 
" 4. In the event of the death, resignation, or inability to 
act of the President of the Convention, these duties shall de- 
volve on the Vice President; and should the Vice President 
also be prevented from serving, upon the Secretary, or the 
Assistant Secretary, the latter acting in the event of the ina- 
bility of the former." 
George B. Wood, ~) 
Thos. Sewall, > Committee. 
ROBLEY DUNGLISON, } 
Washington, January 3, 1840. 
The following resolutions were offered by Dr. Wood, and 
adopted by the Convention: 
Resolved, 1st, That the Secretary take charge of and pre- 
serve the existing records until his successor be appointed by 
