PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



The 244th meeting was held at the Cosmos Club on Thursday, 

 January 21, 1915. The following resolution, presented by the com- 

 mittee, F. V{. Clarke, W. F. Hillebrand, and F. P. Dewey, was 

 adopted: 



''Albert Charles Peale, geologist and paleobotanist, and since 

 1898 in charge of the paleobotanical collections of the U. S. National 

 Museum, died in Philadelphia on Saturday, December 5th, in the 

 65th year of his age. Dr. Peale was one of the original members of 

 the Washington Chemical Society, and was for several years its sec- 

 retary; for although he was not specifically a chemist, his interest in 

 chemistry was very strong. His one noteworthy contribution to chem- 

 istry was Bulletin No. 32 of the United States Geological Survey, 

 published in 1886, entitled "Lists and Analyses of the Mineral Springs 

 of the United States;" a valuable compilation of all the data then 

 accessible to the author, and very useful to chemists. He was also 

 a pioneer in studying the thermal waters of the Yellowstone National 

 Park. For more than forty years Dr. Peale was connected with the 

 scientific service of the United States, and his friends in Washington 

 are very numerous. The Washington Section of the American Chemi- 

 cal Society hereby expresses its appreciation of Dr. Peale as a man 

 and a scholar, and its sincere regret at his loss." 



Waiver of jurisdiction, as a local section of the American Chemical 

 Society, was unanimously made in order to provide for the formation 

 of a Virginia section of the Society. 



The following papers were read : 



C. O. Johns, of the Bureau of Chemistry: Syntheses of methyl- and 

 methylamino-j)unnes. A resume of the work, conducted at the Sheffield 

 Laboratory by Johnson in conjunction with Johns and others on the 

 synthesis of pyrimidines and purines, was presented. In more detail 

 an account was given of the synthesis of the alkyl purines by the author 

 after many unsuccessful attempts had been made. 



W. S. Hubbard and W. L. Mitchel, of the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 (presented by Mr. Hubbard) : The hydrolysis of sugar solutions under 

 pressure. The title might better be the hydrolysis of sugar solutions 

 at elevated temperatures, but to the manufacturer the present title 

 better conveys the idea of the process used. That bacteria, enzymes, 

 acids, salts, elevated temperatures, and pressures under certain con- 

 ditions bring about hydrolysis is quite well known. In this work high 



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