CONVENTION  TO  REVISE  THE  U.  S.  PHARMACOPCEIA.  295 
liam  Procter,  Jr. ;  College  of  Pharmacy,  Baldwin  University, 
R.  D  Murray,  M.  D.  ;  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Society,  Dr.  T. 
E.  Jenkins  ;  Baltimore  Medical  Association,  Dr.  Uhler  ;  Medical 
Department  of  Georgetown  College,  D.  C,  Dr.  F.  Howard; 
War  Department,  Dr.  Smart ;  Navy  Department,  Dr.  Ruschen- 
berger ;  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  Dr.  Amory ;  Maine 
Medical  Association,  Dr.  H.  T.  Cummings  ;  BuflPalo  University, 
New  York,  Dr.  Charles  A.  Lee ;  University  of  Nashville,  Dr. 
William  K.  Bowling ;  University  of  Maryland,  Dr.  S.  C.  Chew  ; 
Howard  University  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  Dr.  Silas  L. 
Loomis ;  Women's  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  Dr.  Charles 
H.  Thomas. 
A  recess  of  thirty  minutes  was  taken  to  enable  the  committee 
to  meet. 
The  committee,  on  reassembling,  reported  the  following  names 
as  the  Committee  for  the  Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  Chairman,  Dr.  Carson  : 
Dr.  G.  B.  Wood,  Alfred  B.  Taylor,  John  M.  Maisch,  Dr. 
Robert  Bridges,  Philadelphia  ;  Dr.  Edward  R.  Squibb,  New 
York  city ;  Albert  E.  Ebert,  Chicago,  111.  ;  J.  Paris  Moore, 
Baltimore,  Md.  ;  G.  F.  H.  Markoe,  Boston,  Mass.  ;  Dr.  John 
C.  Riley,  Washington,  D.  C.  ;  Dr.  Thomas  E.  Jenkins,  Louis- 
ville, Ky. ;  Dr.  Chas.  A.  Lee,  Butfalo,  N.  Y.  ;  Dr.  J.  S.  Wellford, 
Richmond,  Va.  ;  Wm.  F.  Wentzell,  San  Francisco,  Cal. ;  W.  S. 
W.  Ruschenberger,  for  U.  S.  Army  and  Navy,  Philadelphia. 
The  report  was  accepted. 
Dr.  Squibb  tendered  his  resignation  as  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Revision,  which  was  reluctantly  accepted,  and  Dr.  W. 
Manlius  Smith,  of  New  York,  was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy 
thus  created. 
Prof.  J.  M.  Maisch  also  offered  his  resignation,  owing  to  pres- 
sure of  other  duties,  but  the  Convention  being  disinclined  to 
accept  it,  he  acquiesced  in  the  appointment. 
Dr.  Loomis,  of  Washington,  moved  that  the  rules  adopted  by 
the  Convention  of  1860  for  the  meeting  in  1870  be  adopted  for 
the  Convention  in  1880,  simply  changing  the  dates  ;  which  mo- 
tion was  unanimously  adopted. 
Dr.  B.  F.  Craig,  of  Dist.  of  Columbia,  offered  the  following: 
