JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 



VOLUME XXXI NOVEMBER, 1915 No. 2 



UBRAK> 



SOT AW iC At 

 BY CHARLES HOLMES HERTY aASCOt^W. 



COOPEEATIOi^ IN MATTEKS CHEMICAL^ 

 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 



The expressive and recently much quoted phrase, "Don't 

 rock the boat," is an injunction promotive of safety, but the 

 closely related "^Pull together," of common parlance, suggests 

 the method of effective advance. In the hope, therefore, of 

 aiding somewhat that line of progress in which we feel par- 

 ticular interest and for which we are largely responsible, I 

 have chosen as a subject for this occasion, "Cooperation in 

 Matters Chemical." 



Its treatment must necessarily be purely national, for the 

 international aspects have been eliminated by the embitter- 

 ments of the European struggle. Just three years ago there 

 met together in New York City, on the occasion of the Eighth 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry, representatives 

 of all the leading nations of the world for report and confer- 

 ence on subjects pertaining to the advance of that science 

 whose interests call us together now. The key-note of that 

 meeting was, "Science knows no geographical boundaries," 

 and plans were enthusiastically formulated for future co- 

 operative effort. 



Alas, how unexpectedly, how grievously and how com- 

 pletely that key-note has been forgotten, those plans set aside, 

 amid the strife and turmoil of war. The words "forgotten" 

 and "set aside" are used advisedly, for that key-note is eternal 



• Reprinted from the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 

 XXXVII, No. 10. October, 191.5. Presidential address, Fifty-first Meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society, Seattle, August 31 to September 3, 191.5. 



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