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Chemical  tests  and  assay  processes  have  been  given  considerable 
attention  and  33  pages  are  devoted  to  an  enumeration  of  the  reagents, 
volumetric  solutions,  and  chemical  apparatus  necessary  to  apply  the 
several  official  tests. 
An  appendix  contains  a  number  of  tables  including  a  list  of 
potent  medicaments,  table  of  maximum  single  and  daily  doses,  table 
of  specific  gravity  of  official  liquids,  and  an  alcohol  table  giving  the 
per  cent,  of  alcohol  by  weight  and  by  volume  of  mixtures  of 
alcohol  and  water  at  15°  C. 
A  double  column  index  covering  32  pages  completes  a  book  that 
promises  to  be  more  than  a  passing  factor  in  developing  pharmacy 
in  the  country  of  its  origin  and  will  no  doubt  contribute  much 
toward  developing  international  unification  of  standards  for  potent 
or  widely  used  medicaments. 
BOOK  REVIEWS 
Abstract  of  Proceedings,  United  States  Pharmacopceial 
Convention,  19 10.  Compiled  and  edited  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Convention.  Published  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  November  30, 
1910. 
Pharmacists  and  others  who  are  interested  in  the  Pharmacopoeia 
of  the  United  States  will  welcome  this  somewhat  belated  authorita- 
tive report  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopceial  Convention,  pri- 
marily because  of  the  information  it  contains,  but  also  because  it 
provides,  for  ready  reference,  a  comprehensive  and  authentic  account 
of  the  strenuous  sessions  of  the  Convention  held  in  the  City  of 
Washington,  in  May,  1910,  to  provide  for  the  revision  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  now  in  force. 
This  abstract  of  the  proceedings  constitutes  an  octavo  pamphlet 
of  no  pages,  and  in  addition  to  a  rather  complete  account  of  the 
actual  happenings,  presents  verbatim  reproductions  of  the  several 
addresses  and  the  reports  of  officers  of  the  convention.  In  addition 
to  the  proceedings  the  pamphlet  also  contains : 
1.  A  financial  statement  covering  all  of  the  receipts  and  expendi- 
tures during  the  period,  from  May,  1900,  to  May,  1910. 
2.  The  Constitution  and  By-laws  as  revised  by  the  Convention  of 
1910. 
