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it  appears  that  a  propaganda  for  education  and  co-operation  is  to 
be  instituted  in  connection  with  the  enforcement  of  Federal  and 
State  Food  and  Drug  Laws  and  that  the  individualism  so  frequently 
manifested  heretofore  will  give  way  to  concerted  action  on  the 
part  of  all  concerned. 
A  discussion  on  the  substandard  clause  of  the  National  and 
many  of  the  State  laws  relating  to  drugs  elicited  general  condem- 
naton  of  this  provision  and  the  suggestion  that  all  drugs  should  be 
required  to  conform  with  adopted  standards. 
The  British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  held  its  50th  Annual 
Meeting  in  London  the  week  of  July  21,  1913,  and  from  the  reports 
published  in  British  pharmaceutical  journals,  the  meeting  was  from 
all  points  of  view  most  successful.  The  papers  read  in  the  two 
sections  were  of  the  usual  high  quality  and  constitute  a  valuable 
contribution  to  pharmaceutical  literature.  Some  of  the  foreign 
guests  to  the  jubilee  Meeting  contributed  to  the  scientific  section 
of.  the  conference  and  all  took  an  active  part  in  the  discussion  of 
the  several  papers  that  were  presented.  .  .  .  P.-van  der  Wielen, 
the  representative  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Holland,  pre- 
sented a  paper  on  standardization  of  opium  for  pharmaceutical 
purposes  in  which  he  recommends  the  adoption  of  a  normal  opium 
standardized  for  morphine,  narcotine,  codeine  and  meconic  acid. 
Pharmacopeia  Revision,  British. — Umney,  John  C.  (Pharm.  J., 
1913,  v.  91,  pp.  162-172),  in  the  presidential  address  before  the 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference,  presented  a  comprehensive  re 
view  of  conditions  under  which  national  pharmacopoeias  are  pro- 
duced in  other  countries  and  a  comparison  of  these  conditions  with 
the  methods  which  prevail  in  Great  Britain.  Also  made  a. plea  for 
the  statutory  recognition  of  pharmacists  as  co-revisors  with  medical 
men  in  the  production  of  the  British  Pharmacopoeia. 
The  report,  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee  of  the  General 
Medical  Council  states  in  part:  (Chem.  &  Drug.,  1912,  v.  82,  p. 
884)  :  Six  sections  of  the  draft  text  of  the  new  Pharmacopoeia 
have  now  been  prepared  by  the  editors,  and  are  undergoing  re- 
vision by  the  committee,  with  the  help  of  the  several  Committees 
of  Reference.  The  greater  part  of  the  work  is  ready  to  go  to 
press.  A  further  report  by  the  Committee  of  Reference  in  Phar- 
macy, containing  suggestions  relating  to  the  formula?  for  official 
ointments,  has  been  received,  and  will  be  published  shortly. 
International  Pharmaceutical   Congress. — Anon.    (Pharm.  J., 
