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(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\    January,  1921. 
committee  will  welcome  comments  from  any  one  who  is  interested 
in  the  revision. 
It  is  difficult  for  those  who  are  not  closely  affiliated  with  the 
work  to  appreciate  the  enormous  mass  of  detail  which  must  be 
considered,  but  I  am  happy  to  say  that  from  my  experience  in 
previous  revisions  I  am  confident  that  the  work  is  progressing  sat- 
isfactorily and  with  a  notable  speed  and  earnest  determination  on 
the  part  of  the  members  to  bring  it  to  the  earliest  possible  con- 
clusion. 
Very  truly  yours, 
.  .  E.  FULLERTON  COOK, 
Chairman. 
PROGRESS  OF  THE  PHARMACOPCEIAL  REVISION. 
About  six  months  having  passed  since  the  Pharmacopoeial  Con- 
vention in  Washington  and  the  election  of  the  Committee  of  Revi- 
sion, a  brief  outline  of  the  work  of  the  committee  during  this  period 
is  presented,  carrying  out  the  idea  of  publicity,  which  is  a  well- 
defined  policy  of  the  work  of  revision. 
The  personnel  of  the  Revision  Committee  was  fully  reported 
at  the  time  of  the  convention  and  also  the  fact  that  in  the  personal 
conferences  which  immediately  followed  the  election  of  the  com- 
mittee, an  organization  was  perfected  which  permitted  the  immedi- 
ate start  of  the  revision. 
The  sub-committees,  with  their  chairmen,  differ  slightly  from 
those  of  the  last  revision,  two  new  sub-committees  being  created 
and  other  sub-committees  being  consolidated. 
The  sub-committee  on  Bio-Assays  and  on  Reagents  and  Test 
Solutions,  formerly  taken  care  of  <as  the  work  of  other  sub-com- 
mittees, were  considered  important  enough  to  be  established  as 
new  divisions  of  the  work. 
The  appointment  of  the  sub-committees,  their  organization 
and  election  of  chairmen  and  the  appointment  of  these  chairmen  as 
the  members  of  the  Executive  Committee  during  the  Washington 
conferences,  were  subsequently  approved  by  the  vote  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Revision  and  the  Board  of  Trustees,  as  required  by  the 
by-laws  of  the  convention. 
