GENERAL INTRODUCTION 5 



dealing adequately with topics of general interest; it is earnestly 

 hoped, therefore, that every member of the various organizations 

 in the chemical and allied industries will recognize the impor- 

 tance of the enterprise and take sufficient interest to justify it. 



AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



BOARD OF EDITORS 



Scientific Series: — 

 William A. Noyes, Editor, 



S. C. LlND, 



Lafayette B. Mendel, 

 Arthur A. Noyes, 

 Julius Stieglitz. 



Technologic Series: — 



Harrison E. Howe, Editor, 

 Walter A. Schmidt, 



F. A. LiDBURY, 



Arthur D. Little, 

 Fred C. Zeisberg, 

 John Johnston, 

 R. E. Wilson, 



E. R. Weidlein, 

 C. E. K. Mees, 



F. W. Willard. 



