376 CONVENTION FOR REVISING THE PHARMACOPOEIA. 
"2. The several incorporated bodies, thus addressed, 
shall also be requested by the President to submit the 
Pharmacopoeia to a careful revision, and to transmit the 
result of their labours, through their delegates, or through 
any other channel, to the next Convention. 
"3. The several medical and pharmaceutical bodies shall 
be further requested to transmit to the President of this 
Convention the names and residences of their respective 
delegates as soon as they shall have been appointed, a list 
of whom shall be published, under his authority, for the 
information of the medical public, in the newspapers and 
medical journals, in the month of March, 1850. 
"4. In the event of the death, resignation, or inability to 
act of the President of the Convention, these duties shall 
devolve on the Vice President ; and, should the Vice Presi- 
dent also be prevented from serving, upon the Secretary, 
or the Assistant Secretary, the latter acting in the event of 
of the inability of the former." 
In compliance with the foregoing resolutions, the under- 
signed, having been informed by the President of the late 
Convention, Dr. Lewis Condict, that he would be unable, 
from indisposition, to perform the duties assigned to him, 
gives notice, to the several Medical and Pharmaceutical 
bodies enumerated in the first resolution, that a Convention 
for the revision of the National Pharmacopoeia, will meet 
in the city of Washington, on the first Monday in May, 
X850. The undersigned also requests of the several bodies 
referred to, that they will fulfil the wishes of the Conven- 
tion, as set forth in the second resolution ; and, further, that 
they will transmit to his address, on or before the first of 
March next, the names and residences of the delegates 
whom they may appoint, in order that a list of them may 
be published,, as directed in the third resolution. 
Geo. B. Wood, M. D. % 
Vice President of the Convention of 1S4(X> 
Philadelphia , May 1st, 1849. 
