Am.  Jour.  Pharin.  ) 
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concludes  that  a  statement  on  this  subject  from  the  committee  to 
the  pharmaceutical  press  of  the  country  would  undoubtedly  be 
welcome. — N.  A.  R.  D.  Notes,  191 1,  v.  12,  p.  904. 
German  Pharmacopoeia. — The  now  official  fifth  issue  or  fifth 
edition  of  the  German  Pharmacopoeia  is  still  being  discussed  and 
actively  criticized  in  all  the  well-known  pharmaceutical  journals. 
The  objects  and  the  uses  of  this  pharmacopoeia  are  not  generally 
recognized,  particularly  in  America,  and  reviewers  in  this  country 
frequently  criticize  the  scope  and  contents  of  the  German  Pharma- 
copoeia from  a  strictly  American  point  of  view,  forgetting  that  our 
own  U.  S.  P.,  while  theoretically  a  complete  and  highly  commend- 
able work,  is  a  sealed  book  to  many,  if  not  the  majority,  of  retail 
druggists,  and  that  comparatively  few  are  in  a  position  to  or 
capable  of  applying  the  various  tests  embodied  in  the  U.  S.  P. 
The  German  Pharmacopoeia,  on  the  other  hand,  is  the  standard 
guide  for  the  apothecary,  who  is  by  law  compelled  to  comply  with 
all  of  its  requirements.  A  book  review  (/.  Am.  M.  Assoc.,  191 1, 
V.  56,  p.  1 2 18),  commenting  on  this  feature  of  the  German  Pharma- 
copoeia, points  out  that  this  book  "  is  an  indication  of  the  services 
that  can  and  should  be  rendered  by  pharmacists  for  controlling  the 
identity  and  purity  of  drugs  used  in  the  treatment  of  diseases." 
Japanese  Pharmacopoeia. — A  news  note  {Chem.  and  Drug., 
July  29,  191 1,  p.  140)  points  out  that  the  Japanese  Pharmacopoeia 
is  to  be  issued  in  a  revised  form  at  the  end  of  191 5.  The  present 
edition  is  being  unfavorably  criticized. 
American  Chemical  Society. — The  summer  meeting  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society  was  held  in  Indianapolis,  June  28  to  30, 
and  is  reported  to  have  been  an  unusually  successful  meeting.  In 
point  of  view  of  attendance  it  is  said  to  have  been  the  largest 
summer  meeting  that  the  Society  has  ever  held.  The  Division  of 
Pharmaceutical  Chemistry  held  three  sessions,  at  which  a  number 
of  pharmacopoeial  subjects  were  discussed,  the  suggestions,  in  sev- 
eral instances,  being  referred  to  the  Pharmacopoeial  Revision  Com- 
mittee for  further  consideration. — /.  Iiid.  and  Eng.  Chem.,  191 1, 
V.  3,  pp.  610-614. 
International  Association  of  Chemical  Societies. — On  April  25, 
191 1,  a  preliminary  meeting  of  delegates  from  a  number  of 
European  cliemical  societies  met  in  Paris  for  the  purposie  of 
organizing  an  international  association  of  chemical  societies  for  the 
purpose  of  consi(kM-ing  cliemical  ])r()l>lems  of  general  or  inter- 
