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Editorial. 
Am.  Tour.  Pharrn. 
March,  19 19. 
problems  of  education  in  any  line  in  peace  times  is  entirely  inci- 
dental, and  this  matter  received  consideration  only  to  the  extent  that 
it  was  the  aim  of  the  committee  to  disturb  existing  methods  of 
education  as  little  as  was  consistent  with  the  attianment  of  its  aims." 
It  is  not  the  intention  to  continue  the  polemics  displayed  in  the 
editorial  correspondence  in  the  January  issue  of  the  Journal,  but 
this  letter  of  the  War  Department  substantiates  our  editorial  con- 
tention so  well  that  its  publication  was  deemed  necessary  along  with 
a  minimum  of  comment  which  could  also  have  been  greatly  ampli- 
fied. Doubtless  the  readers  who  are  interested  in  this  question  will 
appreciate  the  quod  erat  demonstrandum. 
G.  M.  B. 
PHARMACOPOEIAS  REVISION. 
The  attention  of  the  readers  of  the  American  Journal  of 
Pharmacy  is  directed  to  a  circular  letter  issued  by  the  Chairman 
of  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United 
States  published  on  page  185,  requesting  that  suggestions  for  cor- 
rections, improvements,  additions,  etc.,  should  be  sent  to  him.  The 
intent  is  to  compile  all  of  these  recommendations  for  presentation 
to  the  convention  to  be  called  for  the  Tenth  Decennial  Revision  for 
the  benefit  and  use  of  the  committee  to  be  then  selected  for  that 
revision  of  our  national  authority  for  standards. 
This  is  a  very  timely  communication  and  this  appeal  for  coopera- 
tion should  be  very  generally  responded  to.  It  is  very  creditable  to 
the  efforts  and  a  testimony  to  the  effectiveness  of  the  service  ren- 
dered by  the  Committee  of  Revision  that  prepared  the  Ninth  Re- 
vision, that  so  few  errors  in  the  text  have  been  found  and  so  few  of 
the  standards  have  been  seriously  criticized.  It  has  likewise  with- 
stood the  test  of  the  unusual  conditions  prevailing  throughout  the 
last  four  years  and  the  period  of  the  world  war.  Very  few  indeed 
have  been  the  changes  or  corrections  required  to  be  made,  and  it  has 
not  been  necessary  for  the  committee  to  issue  the  Supplement  that 
they  were  given  authority  to  publish.  However,  all  works  of  human 
hands  and  the  minds  of  men  are  more  or  less  imperfect  and  the  new 
knowledge  and  the  new  medicines  coming  into  use  and  others  becom- 
ing obsolete  from  disuse  are  ample  reasons  that  have  justified  the 
wisdom  of  the  American  method  for  a  decennial  revision  of  our 
pharmacopoeia. 
