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Notes  and  News. 
[  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  November,  1913. 
We  learn  that  the  French  perfumes  are  largely  adopting  these 
new  essences  for  their  specialties,  the  fact  that  there  are  differences 
between  these  and  the  Bulgarian  products  being  of  little  moment, 
just  at  present,  of  course,  while  the  enterprise  is  in  its  infancy, 
the  amount  of  product  is  small,  but  with  a  rich  supply  of  material, 
perfected  machinery,  scientific  control,  and  the  business  acumen  to 
be  found  in  France,  there  is  every  reason  to  anticipate  a  larger  output 
next  year,  and  still  another  anxiety  for  Bulgaria. — Perfumery  and 
Essential  Oil  Record,  August  30,  1913,  page  265. 
NOTES  AND  NEWS. 
An  International  Pharmacopoeal  Bureau. — At  the  recent  Inter- 
national Congress  of  Pharmacy,  a  proposal  to  form  an  International 
Pharmacopoeal  Bureau  was  discussed  and  a  commission  was  ap- 
pointed to  consider  the  question  and  to  submit  to  the  International 
Pharmaceutical  Federation  at  an  early  date  a  scheme  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  such  a  bureau.  Among  the  duties  of  such  a  bureau,  as 
that  proposed,  would  be  the  collection  and  examination  of  all  litera- 
ture relating  to  pharmacopoeal  revision,  the  experimental  investiga- 
tion of  new  drugs  and  preparations,  and  no  doubt  the  influence  of  the 
bureau  would  tend  to  encourage  the  work  already  commenced  in  the 
direction  of  the  unification  of  pharmacopoeias.  The  commission  is 
composed  of  seven  members,  representing  respectively,  Belgium, 
France,  Germany,  Great  Britain,  Holland,  Switzerland  and  the 
United  States ;  most  of  the  members  are  associated  with  the  revision 
of  their  national  pharmacopoeias,  the  American  representative  being 
Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Chairman  of  Committee  of  Revision 
of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  of  America. 
Raising  the  Standard  of  Medical  Practice. — A  gift  of  $1,500,000 
from  the  General  Board  of  Education  to  the  Johns  Hopkins  Medical 
School  is  to  provide  an  income  that  will  put  the  heads  of  departments 
on  salary  and  eliminate  all  private  fees.  The  gift  is  named  after  Dr. 
William  H.  Welch  and  his  idea  is  that  the  new  medicine  wants  men 
who  will  be  too  busy  in  the  great  field  of  research  to  think  about 
money. 
This  is  splendid  idealism  in  the  age  of  the  practical :  it  is  the  true 
spirit  that  will  urge  medical  progress  to  its  possibilities  and  the 
resultant  good  to  the  human  race  will  be  incalculable. 
