SECTION B ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 



(Hall 16, September 21, 3 p. TO.) 



CHAIRMAN: PROFESSOR ALBERT B. PRESCOTT, University of Michigan. 

 SPEAKERS: PROFESSOR JULIUS STIEGLITZ, University of Chicago. 



PROFESSOR WILLIAM A. NOYES, National Bureau of Standards. 



THE Chairman of the Section of Organic Chemistry was Professor 

 Albert B. Prescott, of the University of Michigan, who opened the 

 proceedings by saying that " we are indebted to every one of the 

 speakers so far heard in the Department of Chemistry for important 

 studies of the element carbon, whether studies of the history, the 

 present problems, or the co-relations of chemical science. We are 

 under special obligations to the departmental address, yesterday, on 

 the ' Fundamental Conceptions of Chemical Change,' by a devotee 

 and a master of the investigation of carbon compounds. We found 

 the keenest interest, this morning, in the utterances of authority and 

 mature judgment upon questions touching the nature and relation- 

 ship of chemical elements in general, all bearing upon the character 

 of this element, whose unlimited synthetic powers have enlisted so 

 large a share of the labor of the chemical world. It but exemplifies 

 the unity of scientific truth, that all the divisions of chemical science 

 interweave with each other, so that each is strengthened and directed 

 by the growth of all the others. And in the addresses in Sections 

 to-morrow, in Physical Chemistry at ten and in Physiological Chem- 

 istry at three, I confidently expect that organic chemists will find 

 no less direct an interest bearing upon their own labors." 



