yoS  Committee  on  Pharmacopoeias.  ^November1,11!^' 
Pharmaceutical  journalists  should  certainly  not  be  ignorant  of 
the  history  of  pharmacists  and  their  contributions  to  science  and 
public  knowledge  and  welfare.  Pharmaceutical  journalism,  at  least, 
should  be  alive  to  the  necessity  for  changing  its  attitude  and  for  the 
edification  of  the  public  should  not  fail  to  present  to  the  world  the 
many  services  rendered  by  pharmacists  as  evidences  of  the  good 
faith  and  professional  standing  of  those  who  are  conscientiously  de- 
voting their  energies  along  pharmaceutical  lines. 
G.  M.  B. 
REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  PHARMACOPOEIAS  AND 
FORMULARIES  OF  THE  NEW  JERSEY  PHARMA- 
CEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. 
Before  the  next  annual  meeting  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association,  the  convention  called  for  the  tenth  decennial  revi- 
sion of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  will  most  likely  have 
been  held  in  Washington  and  another  committee  of  revision  have 
been  selected.  Hence  before  this  meeting  adjourns  accredited  dele- 
gates to  represent  our  State  Association  at  that  convention  should 
be  selected  and  their  alternates  named. 
As  the  plans  already  adopted  provide  for  the  simultaneous  revi- 
sion of  the  National  Formulary  so  that  the  fifth  edition  of  that  work 
shall  be  issued  at  about  the  same  time  as  the  U.  S.  P.  X  and  both  to 
become  authoritative  at  the  same  date,  it  is,  likewise,  probable  that 
the  committee  of  revision  of  the  Formulary  will  be  appointed  by  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  before  our  meeting  in  1920. 
Hence  it  is  important  that  any  recommendations  relating  to  these 
revisions  or  any  instructions  to  your  delegates  should  be  decided 
upon  now. 
The  plan  proposed  by  Dr.  Lyman  Spalding  for  the  preparation 
of  a  "  National  Pharmacopoeia  "  with  but  very  little  changes  therein, 
has  withstood  the  test  of  a  century.  It  is  truly  American  and  demo- 
cratic, and  as  we  believe  that  it  secures  the  most  representative 
gathering  of  the  interests  that  are  concerned  in  the  production  of  an 
authoritative  materia  medica  that  shall  provide  for  the  important 
needs  of  the  entire  country  in  this  respect  and  supplies  the  very  best 
talent  that  is  needed  for  the  selection  of  the  Revision  Committee, 
we  recommend  that  this  Association  endorse  a  continuation  of  this 
plan  for  the  revision  of  the  U.  S.  P. 
