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the  optical  rotation  aD  —  1°  1 8';  acid  number  3-8;  ester  number 
19-2  ;  ester  number  after  acetylation  44-5  ;  the  oil  dissolved  in  I  to 
1-5  volumes  80  per  cent,  alcohol,  but  when  more  alcohol  was  added 
opalescence  or  cloudiness  occurred  owing  to  a  large  separation  of 
paraffin, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
THE  UNITED  STATES  PHARMACOPOEIA. 
The  fifth  annual  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  United 
States  Pharmacopoeia  Convention  was  held  at  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  May  13th.  The  members  present  were:  Dr.J.  H. 
Beal,  Scio,  O. ;  Mr.  Albert  E.  Ebert,  Chicago ;  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Rem- 
ington,  Philadelphia ;  Mr.  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  Boston ;  Dr.  H.  M. 
Whelpley,  St.  Louis  ;  Dr.  H.  C.  Wood,  Philadelphia.  In  the  ab- 
sence of  Chairman  Charles  E.  Dohme,  who  is  in  Europe,  Vice- 
Chairman  Beal  called  the  meeting  to  order. 
The  minutes  of  the  fourth  annual  meeting  and  the  intervening 
correspondence  of  the  board  were  read  and  approved. 
It  was  decided  that  a  sample  page  or  pages  of  new  books  in 
which  it  is  desired  to  use  some  of  the  text  of  the  Pharmacopoeia 
shall  be  submitted  to  the  chairman  or  acting  chairman  for  approval 
before  permission  to  use  pharmacopceial  text  be  given. 
Professor  Remington,  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Revision, 
made  a  detailed  report  of  the  progress  of  the  work,  and  stated  that 
the  new  Pharmacopoeia  would  be  out  before  the  end  of  June.  The 
action  of  the  chairman  in  fixing  August  I,  1905,  as  the  date  from 
which  the  new  revision  will  be  official,  was  approved.  One  hundred 
unbound  copies  will  be  distributed  simultaneously  to  pharmaceuti- 
cal and  medical  journals  for  review  purposes. 
All  books  paying  for  the  use  of  pharmacopceial  text  will  be  re- 
quired to  print  upon  the  obverse  of  the  title  page  the  following 
words  in  full-face  or  black-letter  type:  "  Authority  to  use  for  com- 
ment the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  of  America,  Eighth 
Decennial  Revision,  in  this  volume,  has  been  granted  by  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopceial  Convention,  which 
Board  of  Trustees  is  in  no  way  responsible  or  the  accuracy  of  any 
