September 1, 1917.] 



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no reason why this meeting should not be even better than the 

 last. There is nothing which so tends to quicken our interest and 

 increase our efficiency as meeting with our felloiv chemists and 

 exchanging ideas. The fact that every one is so busy is just 

 the reason why we should take this opportunity of getting 

 together and discussing subjects of vital importance to our- 

 selves, our work, and our country. 



The secretary has already received some names of those who 

 wish a copy of the final program sent to them when it is issued, 

 but if there are any others who also would like to have a copy 

 it will be well for them to send in their names at once, since 

 pressure of other matters in connection with his government 

 work may render it impossible to comply with such requests 

 if received at the last moment. 

 John B. Tuttle. Secretary, L. E. Weber, Chairman, 



Bureau of Standards, 729 Boylston street 



Washington, D. C. Boston, Massachusetts. 



August 18, 1917. 



A MEMORIAL TO JOSEPH PKIZSTLEY. 



The rubber industry will welcome the plan of the American 

 Chemical Society to raise a fund of $2,000 for a suitable me- 

 morial to Joseph Priestley, the English-American scientist and 

 writer who discovered oxygen and gave caoutchouc the name 

 rubber because it will erase pencil marks. It is proposed to 

 secure a copy of the best available bust portrait to be deposited 

 as a loan in the National Museum, \^■ashington, D. C, and at 

 intervals of a year or more to award Priestly gold medals for 

 superior achievement in chemical research. The matter is in 

 the hands of a notable committee of fifteen, of w'hich F. C. Phil- 

 lips, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is chair- 

 man. Contributions from $1 upwards are solicited. 



THIRD NATIONAL EXPOSITION OF CHEMICAL 

 INDUSTRIES. 



IT is the belief of those in charge of the Third Annual National 

 ■*• Exposition of Chemical Industries, which will be held at 

 Grand Central Palace, New York City, during the week of Sep- 

 tember 24, that the affair will be the greatest ever held. 



Monjlay. September 24, at 2 p. m., opening addresses will be 

 made by Dr. Charles H. Herty, chairman of tlie advisory com- 

 mittee of the exposition and editor of the "Journal of Industrial 

 and Engineering Chemistry ;" by Professor Julius Stieglitz, presi- 

 dent of the American Chemical Society ; Dr. Colin G. Fink, 

 president of the American Electrochemical Society, and Dr. G. 

 W. Thompson, president of the American Institute of Chemical 

 Engineers. 



.\mong the speakers on the program for other days are W. E. 

 Kies, vice-president National City Bank, "The Development of 

 Export Trade with South America"; Professor Marston Taylor 

 Bogart, chairman chemistry committee National Research Coun- 

 cil, "The Operation and Work of the National Research Council 

 for the National Weal" ; Dr. L. H. Baekeland, of the Naval Con- 

 sulting Board, "The Future of American Chemical Industry." 



In a symposium on "National Resource as Opportunities for 

 Chemical Industries" the speakers will inc!i:de C. H. Crawford, 

 assistant to president of Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis 

 Railway ; V. V. Kelsey, chemist-industrial agent Carolina, Clinch- 

 field & Ohio Railway; Dr. E. A. Schubert, mineralogist-geologist 

 Norfolk & Western Railway ; Dr. T. P. Maynard, mineralogist- 

 geologist Central of Georgia Railway and Atlantic Coast Line 

 Railway, and Dr. J. H. Watkins, geologist Southern Railway. 



The motion picture program will be one of wide interest. The 

 .American Cyanamid Co. and General Electric Co. have already 

 arranged to supply their films. The Bureau of Commercial 

 Economics at Washington will also supply many toward com- 

 pleting the range of industrial films. 



The purposes of the exposition are not so much to show the 

 progress made in all the chemical industries as to indicate where 

 progress can be made, and where opportunities await develop- 

 ment, and how our national resources and wastes can be made 

 valuable and useful. It gives the man of science, the financier, 

 manufacturer and plant operator the opportunity of personal 

 contact with the latest machinery, materials and products used 

 and applied in all the chemical industries, and the opportunity of 

 learning how they can be applied to his specific purposes. 



RUBBER TRADE INQUIRIES. 



THE inquiries that follow have already been answered; never- 

 theless they are of interest not only in shmmng the needs 

 of the trade, hut because of the possibility that additional in- 

 formation may be furnished by those u^ho read them. The editor 

 is therefore glad to ha've those interested communicate -with him. 



[320.1 Manufacturers of elastic garter webbing are sought. 



[321.] A correspondent seeks information on a method for 

 compounding rosin to take the place of shellac. 



[322.] An inquiry has been received for a machine for apply- 

 ing labels to cartons. 



[323.] A concern that buys uncured friction reclaim is sought. 



[324.] Names and addresses of manufacturers of small labor- 

 atory centrifuges for latex coagulation have been requested. 



[325.] An inquirer desires to secure machinery for making 

 rubber bands. 



[326.] A correspondent wishes to be put in touch with a 

 manufacturer of cellulose acetate. 



TSADE OPPORTUNITIES rEOM CONSULAR REPORTS. 



A mercantile and manufacturing company in Italy desires to 

 purchase imitation leather valises. Report No. 25,019. 



A merchant in Newfoundland wishes to purchase rubber pro- 

 tectors, rubber tissue, and other haberdashery used in the tailor- 

 ing business. Report No. 25,110. 



A firm in the United States representing a company in Spain 

 is in the market for rubbers and overshoes. Report No. 25.113. 



An agency for the sale of suspenders and garters is sought by 

 a firm in India. Report No. 25,127. 



An applicant in Algeria wishes to purchase rubber erasers and 

 bands. Report No. 25,144. 



A company in Brazil is in the market for low-cut rubbers for 

 men. Report No. 25,148. 



Representation of American manufacturers of all kinds of 

 artificial leather is desired by a merchant in Australia. Report 

 No. 25,187. 



A manufacturers' agent in Newfoundland wishes to secure an 

 agency for the sale of fine rubber goods in soft and hard rubber, 

 mechanical rubber goods for railroads, etc. Report No. 25,206. 



A firm in British East Africa wishes to buy bicycle tires 28 by 

 I'/j inches, with a straight ribbed tread running with the tire; 

 4,000 to 5,000 of these tires can be used annually, as well as inner 

 tubes for same. Report No. 25,227. 



A firm in Brazil wishes to represent American manufactur- 

 ers and exporters of rubber goods and textile machinery. 

 Report No. 25,238. 



AFRICAN RUBBER AVAILABLE. 



A consular officer in British East Africa reports that several 

 concerns in that country are prepared to furnish rubber in 

 specified quantities for shipment to the United States. Ameri- 

 can concerns interested may secure the names and addresses of 

 such firms from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- 

 merce, or its district or cooperative offices, by referring to file 

 No. 91,462. 



