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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  Septoniber,  1911. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW   OF  SOME  OF  THE   MORE   INTERESTING  LITER- 
ATURE RELATING  TO  PHARMACOLOGY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
By  M.  I.  WiLBERT,  Washington,  D.  C. 
The  past  three  months  have  been  replete  with  happenings  of 
interest  to  the  various  branches  of  the  drug  trade,  and  it  would  be 
difficult  indeed  to  even  attempt  to  accurately  reflect,  in  a  limited 
number  of  pages,  the  many  and  varied  influences  that  are  at  work 
at  the  present  time  to  bring  about  an  improvement  of  conditions 
in  the  drug  business. 
The  literature  of  the  quarter  is  extensive,  and  it  will  be  im- 
practicable to  call  attention  to  more  than  a  few  of  the  more  im- 
portant publications. 
Vohime  ^8  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Phannaceutical 
Association  has  finally  been  distributed,  and  while,  for  a  number  of 
reasons,  no  doubt,  the  publication  of  the  book  has  been  unusually 
delayed,  the  resulting  volume  is  the  largest,  and  in  some  respects 
the  most  valuable,  that  has  appeared  up  to  the  present  time. 
The  book  contains  a  total  of  nearly  1500  pages,  and  in  the 
report  on  the  Progress  of  Pharmacy  and  the  many  original  con- 
tributions presented  therein  adequately  reflects  the  present-day 
status  of  Pharmacy. 
The  Proceedings  of  the  Tenth  International  Congress  of 
Pharniacy,  held  at  Brussels,  September  i  to  6,  19 10,  have  been 
published,  and  constitute  a  large  8vo  volume  of  xlix  and  454  pages, 
with  numerous  illustrations.  The  list  of  members  includes  the 
names  of  upward  of  six  hundred  persons  more  or  less  well  known 
in  pharmaceutical  circles  abroad.  The  number  of  American  sub- 
scribers is  disappointingly  small,  and  serves  to  emphasize  the 
frequently  made  assertion  that  in  matters  relating  to  the  progress 
of  the  sciences  of  pharmacy  this  country  does  not  take  the  com- 
paratively advanced  position  occupied  in  medicine  and  many  other 
lines. 
Pharniacopooial  Publicity. — An  editorial  note,  commenting  on  the 
evident  non-compliance  with  the  U.  S.  P.  Convention  instruction 
to  give  publicity  to  the  progress  of  the  work  of  revision,  expresses 
doubt  as  to  whether  the  instruction  has  been  forgotten  or  neg- 
lected or  whether  it  was  in  the  nature  of  a  political  promise,  and 
