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Correspondence. 
f  Am.  Jour,  Pharm. 
1       ilav,  1909. 
anything  but  complimentary  to  the  knowledge  and  judgment  of  those 
presenting  the  facts.  To  awaken  an  interest  on  the  part  of  the 
members  of  the  association,  to  secure  the  establishment  of  conditions 
that  would  lead  to  investigation  and  determination  of  the  facts,  to 
gradually  promote  a  general  knowledge  of  those  facts,  and  to  finally 
submit  such  conclusive  and  even  indisputable  evidence  as  that  upon 
this  table,  has  been  not  only  a  gradual  but  a  very  painstaking  process, 
in  the  face  of  the  commercial  opposition  to  which  I  have  referred. 
This  commercial  opposition  has  laid  great  stress  upon  the  claim  that 
it  and  it  alone  occupied  a  position  of  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
case,  and  that  opposition  to  its  statements  should  not  be  trusted.  If 
this  claim  as  to  knowledge  is  well  founded,  then  this  commercial 
opposition  must  have  been  one  of  guilty  knowledge.  If,  on  the 
other  hand,  it  could  so  greatly  err  in  reaching  just  conclusions,  in 
spite  of  its  vantage  ground  of  superior  opportunity,  it  is  thereby 
condemned  as  unfit  to  be  trusted  with  the  guidance  of  drug  standards 
and  their  administration. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
UNITED   STATES   PHARMACOPCEIAL  CONVENTION. 
(Incorporated  1900.) 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  May  1,  1909. 
In  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  Article  VIII,  Chapter  1. 
of  the  By-Laws  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopceial  Convention,  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Convention  hereby  invites  the  several  bodies,  entitled 
under  the  Constitution  to  representation  therein,  to  appoint  dele- 
gates to  the  First  Decennial  Meeting  of  the  said  Convention  to  be 
held  in  the  City  of  Washington,  May  10,  1910. 
The  attention  of  all  concerned  is  invited  to  the  following  extract 
from  the  Constitution : 
Article  II. 
Membership. 
Section  i.  The  members  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopceial 
Convention,  in  addition  to  the  Incorporators  and  their  associates, 
shall  be  delegates  elected  by  the  following  organizations  in  the 
manner  they  shall  respectively  provide :  Incorporated  Medical  Col- 
leges, and  Medical  Schools  connected  with  Incorporated  Colleges 
