PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY AND AFFILIATED 



SOCIETIES 



THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The 263rd meeting of the society was held at the Cosmos Club, 

 October 12, 1916. The program of the meeting consisted of reports 

 from members of the section upon the various activities at the Fall 

 Meeting of the American Chemical Society at New York City, and on 

 the Second National Exposition of Chemical Industries. W. D. 

 Bigelow, director of the society, reviewed particularly the work of the 

 directors and the reorganization of the management of the Journal of 

 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. J. Johnston, councilor of the 

 section, dealt especially with the majority and minority reports of 

 the Committee on the Proposed Code of Professional Ethics and the 

 work of the Division of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry. Others 

 presenting brief reviews of papers presented at the meetings of the 

 various sections were I. K. Phelps, L. F. Kebler, R. B. Dole, L. C. 

 Wells, J. B. Tuttle, and W. Blum. H. D. Gibbs gave an account 

 of the Exposition and the various symposiums on subjects of present 

 industrial importance. 



The 264th meeting, held at the Cosmos Club, November 9, 1916, 

 was devoted to the annual election of officers. The following were 

 elected: President, C. S. Hudson, Bureau of Chemistry; Secretary, E. 

 ( . McKelvy, Bureau of Standards; Treasurer, F. P. Dewey, Bureau 

 of the Mint; Councilors, R. B. Sosman, Geophysical Laboratory, E. 

 B. Phelps, Hygienic Laboratory, and R. C. Wells, Geological Sur- 

 vey; Executive Committee, J. C. Hostetter, Geophysical Laboratory, 

 F, W. Smither, Bureau of Standards. F. C. Cook, Bureau of Chemis- 

 try. A. Seidell, Hygienic Laboratory, F. A. Wertz, Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, P. B. Dunbar, Bureau of Chemistry. 



The 265th meeting of the society was held as a joint meeting with 

 t he Botanical Society of Washington at the Cosmos Club, November 

 23, 1916. 



Dr. Frederick B. Power, of the Bureau of Chemistry, until re- 

 cently with the Wellcome Burroughs Laboratory, London, gave an 

 address upon the Aims and developments of phyto-chemical research. 

 The speaker presented the results and conclusions drawn from a 

 great amount of work carried out in laboratories abroad and largely 

 published in detail in British journals. Particular emphasis was 

 placed upon the enormous opportunity for development in this almost 



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