Progress  in  Pharmacy.  289 
Association  for  April  15,  191 1.  The  supplement  includes  all  of  the 
material  published  in  N.N.R.  and  a  complete  index  which  makes 
the  pamphlet  available  for  reference. 
An  editorial  (/.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  191 1,  v.  56,  p.  11 12)  commenting 
on  the  publication,  reviews  the  history  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy 
and  Chemistry,  and  recommends  that  the  supplement  be  critically 
examined  and  especially  is  it  urged  that  physicians  read  the  rules 
which  are  printed  in  the  front  of  the  book,  bearing  in  mind  that 
these  rules  represent  the  principles  on  which  a  preparation  is 
accepted  or  rejected. 
Ph.  Germ.  V. — The  new  German  Pharmacopoeia  has  been  per- 
haps more  actively  discussed  in  European  drug  and  pharmaceutical 
journals  than  any  Pharmacopoeia  published  up  to  the  present  time. 
Much  of  this  discussion  has  been  of  a  critical  nature  and  some  of 
it  caustic,  but  all  of  it  nO'  doubt  will  prove  beneficial  either  directly 
or  indirectly  and  should  go  far  toward  making  the  next  edition  of 
the  German  Pharmacopoeia  even  more  representative  of  the  best  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  and  pharmacy. 
A  recent  article  in  the  Chemist  and  Druggist  (1911,  v.  78, 
April  29,  pp.  139-142)  discusses  the  new  galenical  preparations  that 
have  been  included  in  the  Ph.  Germi.  V,  and  points  out  that  only  a 
limited  number,  soriie  20  in  all  new  galenical  preparations  are 
represented  in  this  Pharmacopoeia. 
Canadian  Formulary. — An  editorial  review  of  the  third  edition 
of  the  Canadian  Formulary  of  Unofficial  Preparations,  published 
by  the  Authority  of  the  Ontario  College  of  Pharmacy,  in  the 
Chemist  and  Druggist  (1911,  v.  78,  April  29,  pp.  146-147)  calls 
attention  to  some  of  the  many  changes  and  reprints  a  number  of 
new  recipes  and  alterations. 
Metric  Prescriptions.— The  conclusions  of  the  Council  of  the 
British  Medical  Association  on  the  adoption  of  the  metric  system 
of  weights  and  measures  by  medical  practitioners  in  i)rescribing  and 
dispensing,  are  reprinted  {Pharm.  J.,  Lond.,  May  6,  191 1,  p.  585) 
as  follows : 
"  The  Council  recognizes  that  the  full  and  complete  adoption 
of  the  metric  system  in  practice  depends  upon  its  being  made  the 
system  according  to  which  students  are  trained,  and  therefore 
recommends  that  the  teaching,  both  theoretical  and  practical,  in 
pharmacology  and  materia  medica,  should  henceforth  be  according 
to  the  metric  system."    The  Council  also  outlines  a  transitional 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
.June,  1911. 
