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Progress  in  Pharmacy, 
i  Am.  Jour.  Phanu. 
\       Mairli,  1911. 
the  University  of  Strassburg  announces  that  a  post-graduate  course 
of  instruction,  covering  the  changes  and  requirements  of  the  Ph. 
Germ.  V.,  is  now  being  arranged  for.  The  course  is  designed  as  a 
review  of  the  more  important  tests  and  assay  methods  of  the  pharma- 
copoeia and  will  consist  of  lectures,  demonstrations  and  practical 
laboratory  work. — /.  d.  Pharmacie  v,  Elsass-Lothringen,  191 1,  v.  37, 
p.  292. 
British  Pharmacopceia. — Edmund  White,  in  resigning  as  a 
member  of  the  British  Pharmacopoeia  Committee  of  Reference  in 
Pharmacy  expresses  himself  as  being  dissatisfied  with  the  progress 
that  is  being  made  in  revising  the  British  Pharmacopoeia.  He 
thinks  conditions  existing  in  connection  with  the  revision  of  the 
British  Pharmacopoeia  are  quite  unsatisfactory  and  points  out  that  the 
German  Pharmacopoeia,  which  is  now  a  State  publication,  has  been 
developed  along  much  more  satisfactory  lines. — Chem.  &  Drug., 
London,  191 1,  v.  78,  pp.  186-187. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Codex. — An  editorial  asserts  that 
the  revision  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Codex  is  now  well 
advanced,  though  it  may  be  several  months  before  it  approaches 
completion.  The  editorial  also  points  out  that  most  gratifying  re- 
sponses have  been  received  from  all  to  whom  appeals  for  assistance 
have  been  made  and  the  Codex  as  revised  may  therefore  be  depended 
upon  as  representing  the  consensus  of  opinion  of  practicing  pharma- 
cists throughout  Great  Britain. — Pharm.  J.,  London,  1911,  v,  86, 
p,  2. 
The  Codex  Revision  Committee  is  regularly  publishing  sug- 
gested new  formulae  and  alterations  with  the  request  that  they  be 
reviewed  by  pharmacists  and  that  criticisms  and  further  sugges- 
tions be  forwarded  to  the  office  of  the  committee.  These  published 
formulae  have  elicited  considerable  comment,  and  it  is  expected  that 
the  book  as  finally  published  will  be  free  from  the  glaring  errors 
usually  found  in  works  of  this  kind. 
International  Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry. — William 
H.  Nichols  (Science,  1910,  v.  32,  p.  689)  discusses  the  origin  and 
development  of  the  International  Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry, 
and  calls  attention  to  the  need  for  making  active  preparations  for 
the  eighth  international  Congress  which  is  to  meet  in  this  country 
early  in  September  of  1912. 
John  Morgan. — A  news  note  announces  that  at  a  meeting  held 
in  the  office  of  the  Provost  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  on 
