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Phar maccutical  Meetings. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I    February,  190(i. 
brief  abstracts,  and  in  some  cases  where  the  original  is  not  readily 
accessible,  he  gives  an  extended  abstract.  The  writer  does  not 
know  whether  Dr.  Smith  intended  to  give  a  complete  bibliography 
of  the  more  authoritative  and  important  works  on  bacteriology  or 
not,  but  if  he  did  one  wonders  why  such  an  important  manual  as 
that  by  Prof.  Arthur  Meyer,  of  Marburg,  was  not  included. 
This  work  of  Dr.  Smith's  is  probably  the  most  comprehensive 
that  has  yet  appeared  on  this  subject,  and  to  the  writer's  mind  is 
the  most  valuable. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETINGS.OF  THE  PHILADELPHIA 
COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
DECEMBER. 
The  third  stated  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  for  1905-06  was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon, 
December  19th,  with  William  Mclntyre  in  the  chair. 
Prof.  Henry  Leffmann,  the  well-known  chemist  and  author,  was 
the  speaker  of  the  afternoon,  and  gave  a  talk  on  "  The  U.  S.  Phar- 
macopoeia from  the  Point  of  View  of  the  Analyst  and  as  a  Legal 
Standard."    (See  page  77.) 
In  discussing  the  address  M.  i.  Wilbert  spoke,  in  part,  as  follows : 
"  To  pharmacists  who  are  at  all  interested  in  advancing  the  status, 
as  well  as  the  use,  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  it  must  be  evident  that  the 
very  attempt  at  making  the  book  a  comprehensive  text-book  on  the 
sciences  relating  to  pharmacy,  not  alone  tends  to  increase  the  size 
as  well  as  the  price  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  but  is  also  the  one  factor 
that  has  evidently  delayed  the  publication  of  the  last  edition. 
"  While  we  no  doubt  feel  that  the  Pharmacopoeia  is,  or  at  leaSt 
should  be,  the  generally  accepted  standard  for  the  drugs  and  reme- 
dies that  are  used  in  the  treatment  of  disease,  we  must  not  forget 
that  of  the  140,000  physicians  and  upwards  of  40,000  pharmacists 
of  the  country,  who  should  have  an  intimate  knowledge  of  the  con- 
tents of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  less  than  10,000,  or  about  .5  per  cent, 
of  the  total,  were  supplied  with  the  book  on  September  I,  1905,  the 
date  when  the  eighth  decennial  revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  is  sup- 
posed to  have  become  official." 
Charles  H.  La  Wall  spoke  of  the  recurring  tests  for  various  salts, 
