JAN. 19, 1921 proceedings: chemical society 41 



The 276th meeting was held at the Cosmos Club on December 13, 1917. 

 Program: AtherTon Seidell: Utilization of the adsorptive power of fullers' 

 earth for chemical separation. Oswald Schreiner: The potash situation in 

 relation to food crops. 



The 277th meeting was held at the Cosmos Club on December IS, 1917. 

 Prof. W. D. Bancroft lectured on Contact catalysis. 



The 27Sth meeting was held at the Cosmos Club on January 10, 1918. 

 The retiring president, C. S. Hudson, delivered an address on American 

 sources of supply for the various sttgars, illustrated with samples of sugar- 

 bearing products and purified sugars. 



The 279th meeting was held at the Cosmos Club on February 14, 1918. 

 Program: Grinnell Jones: The work of the Tariff Commission and its 

 relation to the chemical industries. D. B. Jones: The hydrolysis of kafarin. 



The 2S0th meeting was held at the Cosmos Club on March 14, 1918. 

 Program: J. F. Norris: The activity of certain elements in carbon com- 

 pounds. H. A. LuBS. Determination oi the products formed in the chlorina- 

 tion of toluene. C. J. West: The chemistry of the unsaturated lipoids. 



The 2Slst meeting was held at the Cosmos Club on April 11, 1918. Pro- 

 gram: C. W. Merrill: The ammonia program for igi8. E. C. Mc- 

 Kelvy and A. Isaacs: N on-condensing gas formation in ammonia absorp- 

 tion machines: its cause and prevention. 



The 2S2d meeting was held jointly with the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences at the Interior Department. Prof. A. A. NovES lectured on The 

 nitrogen problem in relation to the war. The lecture has been published in 

 the Journal of the Academy.^ 



The 2S3d meeting was held at the Carnegie Institution on November 14, 

 1918. Program: Roger Adams: The preparation of organic chemical 

 reagents. C. L. Alsberg: The value of a museum of chemical compounds. 

 Reports on the general meeting of the Society at Cleveland, Ohio, were 

 presented. 



The 284th meeting was held at the Carnegie Institution on December 12, 

 1918, and was devoted to the annual election of officers. The following 

 were elected: President, Atherton Seidell; Secretary, E. C. McKelvy; 

 Treasurer, F. P. Dewey; Members of Council, American Chemical Society, 

 C. O. Johns, John Johnston, F. B. Power, F. W. Smither, R. B. Sosman, 

 F. A. Wertz; Members Executive Committee, W. Blum, F. C. Cook, P. B. 

 Dunbar, F. F. Fitzgerald, M. J. Ingle, R. C. Wells. 



A series of reconstruction proposals, prepared by the local council, were 

 approved for submission to the December meeting of the Council of the 

 general Society. 



The 2S5th meeting was held jointly with the Washington Academy of 

 Sciences at the Carnegie Institution, on Thursday, January 9, 1919. The 

 retiring president of the Chemical Society, Dr. F. B. Power, gave an illus- 

 trated address on The distribution and character of some of the odorous prin- 

 ciples of plants. This has been published elsewhere.^ 



The 2S6th meeting was held at the new assembly hall of the Cosmos Club 

 on January 23, 1919. Program: W. H. Smith: Airplane dopes. R. N. 

 Harger: The -preparation of metol. J. D. Davis: The removal of phos- 

 phine from ammonia made from cyanamide. The appointment of the fol- 



' This Journal 8: 381-394. 1918. 



- Journ. Ind. Eng. Chem. ii: 344-352. 1919. 



