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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1909.J] 
this  the  most  successful  of  all  of  the  many  meetings  held  to  bring 
about  a  better  understanding  between  members  of  the  two 
professions. 
National  Formulary. — From  a  more  purely  pharmaceutical 
point  of  view  few  happenings  in  recent  years  are  more  promising 
or  more  indicative  of  real  progress  in  the  sciences  relating  to 
pharmacy  than  the  many  successful  meetings  of  local  branches  of 
the  A.  Ph.  A.  at  which  the  National  Formulary  and  the  formulas 
it  contains  were  discussed  and  suggestions  for  improving  the  same 
made. 
Practically  all  of  the  more  active  branches  have  contributed  in 
this  direction,  and  the  Committee  on  the  National  Formulary  is  to 
be  congratulated  on  the  amount  of  material  that  is  being  offered 
them  for  consideration,  and,  more  particularly,  on  the  demonstra- 
tion that  the  National  Formulary  is  a  really  valuable  book  of 
reference  for  every-day  use  in  the  up-to-date  pharmacy. 
National  Formulary  Nomenclature. — Kebler,  Lyman  F.,  dis- 
cusses the  relation  of  the  nomenclature  of  the  National  Formulary  to 
the  Pure  Food  and  Drugs  Law  and  points  out  a  number  of  short- 
comings and  objectionable  features  of  the  titles  in  the  N.  F. — /. 
Amer.  Med.  Assoc.,  1909,  v.  52,  pp.  1393-1397. 
New  and  Non-official  Remedies,  1909. — This  now7  well-estab- 
lished annual  publication  comes  to  us  in  enlarged  form.  It  contains 
upwards  of  167  pages  of  descriptions  of  articles  which  have  been 
accepted  by  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  A.  M. 
A.,  prior  to  January  1,  1909.  The  review  of  this  book  in  the 
Journal  of  the  American  Chemical  Society  (1909,  v.  31,  p.  609) 
says :  "  Every  chemist  whose  work  touches  upon  these  substances 
should  give  his  support  to  the  Council  though  he  may  not  always 
be  able  to  agree  with  their  dictum.  A  proper  spirit  and  the 
manifestation  of  good  will  on  all  sides  will,  no  doubt,  accomplish 
much  in  dealing  with  this  important  problem  of  pharmaceutical 
chemistry." 
Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  A.  M.  A. — An 
editorial  discussing  the  progress  of  the  work  of  the  Council  asserts 
that  one  of  the  most  encouraging  things  connected  with  the  advance 
of  therapeutic  reforms  is  the  spontaneity  with  which  men,  already 
laboring  under  diverse  and  burdensome  daily  work,  accept  as  a 
duty  the  further  tasks  which  membership  in  or  volunteer  work 
for  the  Council  imposes  on  them.    A  list  of  names  of  well-known 
