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calling,  but,  even  at  the  present  time,  the  publications  of  the  society 
alone  should  be  a  sufficient  inducement  for  the  up-to-date  pharmacist 
to  seek  membership  in  its  ranks.  The  newly  established  Journal  of 
Industrial  and  Engineering  Chemistry  is  devoted  to  the  more  prac- 
tical side  of  chemistry,  while  the  Abstract  Journal  covers  practi- 
cally all  of  the  available  chemical  literature. 
The  Convocation  Week  meeting  of  the  American  Association 
for  the  Advancement  of  Science  was  held  in  Baltimore  from  Decem- 
ber 26  to  January  2.  It  is  generally  conceded  that  this  meeting  has 
never  been  equalled  either  in  size  or  importance  by  any  gathering  of 
scientific  men  in  this  country.  The  program  that  was  issued  included 
upwards  of  one  thousand  titles  of  papers  that  were  to  be  read  at 
the  meeting. 
In  matters  pharmacopceial  the  more  interesting  publication  is 
the  new,  Ninth,  edition  of  the  Swedish  Pharmacopoeia,  Svenska 
Farmakopen,  1909.  The  eighth  edition  of  the  Swedish  Pharma- 
copoeia, it  will  be  remembered,  was  published  in  1902,  just  before 
the  meeting  of  the  International  Conference,  in  Brussels.  The  pro- 
visions of  that  conference  were  considered  to  be  of  such  importance 
that  the  Revision  Committee  decided  to  revise  the  entire  work  SO'  as 
to  bring  it  thoroughly  up  to  date. 
The  comments  that  have  appeared  in  European  pharmaceutical 
journals  on  this  new  Swedish  Pharmacopoeia  are  uniformly  favor- 
able and  it  would  appear  as  though  the  Revision  Committee  had 
been  successful  in  preparing  a  book  that  is  both  compact  and 
comprehensive. 
The  British  Pharmacopoeia  is  now  in  active  course  of  revision 
and,  judging  from  the  interest  that  is  being  manifested  in  the 
making  of  the  book,  by  both  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical  pro- 
fessions, it  will  be  thoroughly  up  to  date  and  will  accurately  repre- 
sent the  present-day  advances  in  materia  medica. 
From  the  available  comments  on  the  coming  revision  of  the 
British  Pharmacopoeia,  it  would  appear  that  Dr.  Dixon  and  his 
colleagues  advocate  a  volume  which  will  deal  only  with  medica- 
ments of  proved  virtue  and  will  include  a  minimum  number  of  the 
preparations  of  those  drugs  (Pharm.  Jour.,  London). 
The  British  Pharmaceutical  Codex  has  been  out  of  print  for 
several  months  but  is  now  in  press,  and  the  revisers  promise  that 
the  book  will  meet  all  expectations.  In  addition  to  the  matter 
included  in  the  first  edition  the  re-issue  will  include  information 
