Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  ) 
August,  1909.  j 
Notes  and  Nezvs. 
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Digest  of  Comments  on  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United 
States  of  America. — This  is  a  continuation  of  the  "  Digests  of 
Criticisms  "  instituted  by  the  late  Dr.  Charles  Rice,  the  last  of 
which  appeared  in  1901.  The  present  pamphlet  deals  only  with 
the  literature  of  the  latter  half  of  1905,  representing  the  period  from 
the  publication  of  the  U.S. P.  viii  to  December  31,  1905.  It  is 
stated  in  the  preface  that  because  of  the  wide-spread  and  growing 
interest  in  the  U.S. P.  viii,  and  because  of  the  official  connection  of 
the  Public  Health  and  Marine  Hospital  Service  with  the  United 
States  Pharmacopceial  Convention,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
latter  organization  requested  the  co-operation  of  the  Surgeon- 
General  of  the  Public  Health  and  Marine  Hospital  Service  of  the 
United  States  in  the  compilation  and  publication  of  a  "  Digest  of 
Comments  "  bearing  on  the  articles  official  in  the  U.S. P.  viii.  This 
"  Digest  of  Comments  "  was  compiled  by  Murray  Gait  Motter  and 
Martin  I.  Wilbert,  and  is  issued  as  Bulletin  No.  49  of  the  Hygienic 
Laboratory.  The  Digest  comprises  292  pages,  and  affords  an  ex- 
cellent summary  of  the  literature  pertaining  to  pharmacy  for  the 
period  mentioned. 
It  will  be  seen  that  there  is  a  break  of  four  years  between  the 
time  of  the  publication  of  the  last  "  Digest  of  Criticisms  "  and  the 
present  Bulletin,  but  as  the  literature  of  this  period  is  pretty  well 
covered  by  the  Report  on  the  Progress  in  Pharmacy  of  the  Amer- 
ican Pharmaceutical  Association,  it  is  available  for  reference  so  far 
as  it  goes.  This  circumstance  suggests  not  only  the  co-operation  of 
the  Hygienic  Laboratory  and  U.  S.  Pharmacopceial  Convention, 
but  also  the  further  co-operation  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  with  these  two  organizations. 
Dr.  E.  R.  Larned,  of  the  department  of  experimental  medicine, 
Parke,  Davis  &  Co.,  Detroit,  Mich.,  gave  an  interesting  and  in- 
structive illustrated  lecture  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
Thursday  evening,  April  8,  on  the  subject  of  "  Methods  of  Prepara- 
tion and  Standardization  of  Extracts  and  Biological  Products." 
The  President's  Cup  presented  by  Howard  B.  French,  Ph.G., 
in  trust  to  the  graduating  class  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  attaining  the  highest  average  in  scholarship,  was  awarded, 
for  the  first  time  in  five  years,  to  the  class  of  1909. 
International  Congress  of  Pharmacy. — The  next  meeting 
will  be  held  in  Brussels,  September  1-5,  1910,  under  the  patronage 
