AD;ceJSvfS)r9m'.}     Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  593 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY.  : 
NOVEMBER   PHARMACEUTICAL. -MEETING.  ...  . 
The  regular  pharmaceutical  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College, 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Tuesday,  November  16,  at  3  o'clock.  Dr. - 
Geo.  D.  Rosengarten  presided  during  a  portion  of  the  time,  but, 
not  being  able  to  remain  until  the  close  of  the  meeting,  Mr.  George 
M.  Beringer  was  called  to  the  chair.  The  papers  presented  were 
both  interesting  and  timely,  and  this,  taken,  in  connection  with  the 
statements  and  opinions  brought  out  in  the  general  discussion,  will 
probably  make  this  meeting  of  far-reaching  importance  and  one 
which  will  have  more  or  less  influence  on  the  future  of  pharmaco- 
pceial  revision  in  this  country. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  of  Washington,  D.C.,  who  was  the  first 
speaker  of  the  afternoon,  read  a  paper  on  "  Problems  for  the  Phar- 
macopceial  Convention  of  1910  "  (see  p.  565),  and  presented  the 
following  slightly  amended  resolution,  which  was  laid  on  the  table 
for  further  consideration  and  discussion  at  the  next  meeting : 
Whereas,  The  conservation  of  the  public  health  is  a  matter  of  great 
importance,  and 
Whereas,  The  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States  is  a  valuable  ad- 
junct for  this  purpose,  and 
Whereas,  The  development  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United 
States  along  purely  scientific  lines  is  necessary  adequately  to  reflect  the 
progress  and  practice  of  American  medicine ;  now,  therefore,  be  it 
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  members  here  present  that  the 
admissions  of  articles  to  the  U.S. P.  IX  be  referred  to  a  special  committee 
of  physicians  representing  clinicians,  teachers,  and  laboratory  workers ;  and  be 
it  further 
Resolved,  That  the  Committee  of  Revision  be  requested  to  give  prompt 
publicity  to  its  conclusions  so  as  to  permit  of  a  full  and  free  general  discus- 
sion before  the  final  adoption  of  the  text  for  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
The  discussion  on  the  paper  and  resolution  was  opened  by  Prof. 
Joseph  P.  Remington,  Chairman  of  the  U.S. P.  Revision  Committee. 
Professor  Remington  said  that  the  question  of  greater  publicity  in 
connection  with  pharmacopoeial  revision  had  been  discussed  before 
and  answered  several  times.  He  maintained  that  the  charge  of 
secrecy  in  revision  work  was  unwarranted  and  the  demand  for  greater 
publicity  questionable,  and  that  the  records  connected  with  the  work 
of  revision  were  open  to  every  rightly  constituted  organization.  He 
claimed  that  there  were  two  objections  to  publishing  the  matter 
