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American  Medical  Association. 
Am.  Jour.  Pliarm. 
July,  1909. 
comings,  attend  the  decennial  convention  and  there  present  their 
suggestions,  and  then  see  to  it  that  they  are  embodied  in  the  book 
by  the  Committee  of  Revision. 
On  the  recommendation  of  the  Committee  on  Awards  in  the 
Scientific  Exhibit,  consisting  of  Drs.  Barker,  Mayo,  and  Christian, 
the  House  of  Delegates  of  the  A.  M.  A.  awarded  to  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  "  a  diploma  of  merit  for  exhibits  of 
superior  merit  "  for  the  exhibition  of  official  drugs  and  preparations 
held  under  the  auspices  of  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association.  In  this  connection  some  reference 
should  be  made  to  the  very  interesting  meeting  held  by  the  Philadel- 
phia Branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  connec- 
tion with  this  exhibition.  This  meeting  was  held  on  the  morning 
of  Friday,  June  n,  and  was  virtually  a  symposium  on  the  U.  S.  P., 
N.  F.,  and  N.  N.  R.  The  first  paper  presented,  "  The  U.  S.  P.  and 
N.  F.  Preparations  versus  Nostrums/'  by  Otto  Raubenheimer,  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  contains  a  fund  of  information  on  the  origin  and 
evolution  of  pharmaceutical  preparations  and  should,  and  no  doubt 
will,  be  made  available  to  every  pharmacist  who  is  at  all  desirous 
of  advancing  the  status  of  his  calling. 
H.  P.  Hynson,  Baltimore,  presented  a  communication  on  the 
"  More  Radical  Revision  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,"  in  which  he  recom- 
mended that  all  compound  U.  S.  P.  pharmaceutical  preparations  be 
relegated  to  the  National  Formulary.  M.  I.  Wilbert,  Washington, 
discussed  the  relation  of  the  N.  N.  R.  to  the  U.  S.  P.  W.  L.  Cliff e 
read  a  paper  by  Geo.  M.  Beringer,  Camden,  on  improvements  in 
the  N.  F.  I.  V.  S.  Stanilaus,  Philadelphia,  discussed  the  tests  of 
the  U.  S.  P.,  and  Jos.  P.  Remington  outlined  some  of  the  possibili- 
ties of  the  ninth  revision  of  the  U.  S.  P. 
The  attendance  at  the  meeting  was  unexpectedly  good,  repre- 
senting members  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  from 
Brooklyn,  New  York,  Philadelphia,  Atlantic  City,  Baltimore,  and 
Washington,  and  the  general  result  was  particularly  gratifying, 
considering  the  late  date  on  which  the  meeting  was  organized.  It 
should  prove  a  stimulus  for  future  efforts  along  the  same  line,  and, 
in  connection  with  the  sessions  of  the  Section  on  Pharmacology  and 
Therapeutics,  such  meetings  should  do  much  to  demonstrate  the 
possibilities  in  connection  with  a  national  development  of  the 
sciences  relating  to  pharmacy.  M.  I.  Wilbert. 
