ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. (AMERICAN.) 



Michael Faraday, "trulv a father of electro-chem- 

 i>try. who said :"' It is the great beauty of our sci- 

 ence . . . that advancement in it, whether in degree 

 great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects 

 of research, opens the doors to future and more 

 abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and 

 utility to those who will be at the . . . pains of un- 

 dertaking its experimental investigation." 



As many of the members of Section C are also 

 members of the American Chemical Society, it has 

 become customary for tin- last-named body to hold 

 its summer meet ing contemporaneously with Section 

 C. Tin- papers are grouped under special headings, 

 and are read with a chairman presiding over each 

 group. 



The following is a list of the papers presented: 

 Analytical ( 'ht'mixfry, in charge of Prof. William L. 

 Dudley : " The Influence of Temperature upon the 

 Specific Rotary Power of Sucrose. 1 ' by Harvey W. 

 Wiley ; " The Determination of Water and Coke in 

 Coal/' by William A. Noyes and N. M. Austin; 

 "Notes on Determination of Water in Coal," by 

 William F. Hill- -brand ; "Analysis of Mixed Acids," 

 by Charles E. Munroe: "A Simple Color Reaction 

 for the Detection of Methyl Alcohol," by Samuel 

 I'. Mulliken and Ilarwood Scudder; "Detection of 

 the Nitro Group in Organic Compounds," by Samuel 

 P. Mulliken and E. It. Barker ; " Electrolytic De- 

 termination of Tin in Tin Ores," by Edward D. 

 Campbell and E. C. Champion ; " The Determina- 

 tion of Undigested Fat and Casein in Infant Faeces," 

 by Herman Poole ; " New Method for the Determi- 

 nation of Zinc" and "Note on Determination of 

 Arsenic in Glycerin," by A. C. Langmuir; and 

 "The Estimation of Iron and Aluminum in Natural 

 Phosphates." by Harvey W. Wiley and F. P. Veitch. 

 TeacMna of Chemistry, in charge of Prof. Frank 

 P. Venable : " The Use of the Formula in teaching 

 Chemistry," by Frank P. Venable ; " The Teaching 

 of Organic Chemistry," by Ira Remsen ; " The Teach- 

 ing of Industrial Chemistry," by Edward Hart; 

 " The Teaching of Analytical Chemistry," by Wil- 

 liam L. Dudley. Physical Chemistry, in charge of 

 Prof. Theodore W. Richards : " Progress in Physical 

 Chemistry," by Theodore W. Richards; "Some 

 Properties of Liquid Anhydrous Ammonia," by 

 Edward C. Franklin and Charles A. Kraus; "The 

 Solubility of Di-ionic Salts of Weak Acids in Solu- 

 tions of Stronger Di-ionic Acids," by Arthur A. 

 Noyes and David Schwartz ; " The Solubility of Di- 

 ionic Acids in Solutions of Di-ionic Salts of Other 

 Acids," by Arthur A. Noyes and Edward S. Chapin ; 

 "The Solubility of Tri-ionic Bases in Solutions of 

 Di-ionic Salts of Weak Bases," by Arthur A. Noyes 

 and Edward S. Chapin; "The Solubility of Iodine 

 in Dilute Potassium Iodide Solutions," by Arthur 

 A. Noyes and L. .1. Seidensticker; "The Rate of 

 Reaction between Silver Acetate and Sodium For- 

 mate : A Reaction of the Third Order," by Arthur 



A. Noyes and George T. Cottle ; " On the Influence 

 of Silicon on the Heat of Solution of Coke in Cast 

 Iron," by Edward Campbell and W. E. Hartman; 

 "On the Passage of Bubbles through Media of Dif- 

 ferent Densities." by C. Gilbert Wheeler; and 

 " Photographic Reproduction of Color," by Romyn 

 Mitdieock. .\ijrii-iilliirnl < '/n/nixfri/. in Charge of 

 Prof. Henry A. Weber : " Light; A Factor in Sugar 

 Production," by Henry A. Weber; "The Determi- 

 nation of Starch in Agricultural Products," by J. 



B. Lindsay; "A Note on the Growth of Lupins on 

 Calcareous Lands'' by Hugene W. Ililgard : and 

 "Some of the Important Results of the Recent 

 Chemical Investigations of Plant and Animal Cells," 

 by Kmil A. de Seliweinit/.. I>i<lnx1ri<tl Chi-mixfri/, 

 iii charge of Prof. Nathaniel W. Lord : "The Valu- 

 ation of Coals." by Nathaniel W. Lord: "Determi- 

 nation of Turbidity in Water " and " Efficiency of 



the Elmira Filtering Plant," by William P. Mason ; 

 " On the Composition of Oscillaria prolifica and its 

 Relation to the Quality of Water Supplies," by Isa- 

 belle F. Hyams and Ellen H. Richards ; " The Le 

 Seuer Electrolytic Process for the Production of 

 Caustic Soda and Bleaching Powder " and " Review 

 of the Electrolytic Processes for the Production of 

 Caustic Soda and Bleaching Powder," by Charles 

 L. Parsons ; " The Alum Question in Water Purifi- 

 cation," by E. G. Smith ; " The Effect of an Electro- 

 lytic Bath on the Tanning of Leather," by Charles 

 F. Mabery and K. Landgrebe; "Some Records of 

 the Year's Progress in Applied Chemistry," by 

 William McMurtrie ; "The Progress in Utilization 

 of City Garbage, with Special Reference to the New 

 Plant in Boston," by Bruno Terne ; " On the Re- 

 moval of Hardness from Water for Boiling Pur- 

 poses," by Charles F. Mabery and E. B. Baltzly; 

 "On the Properties of Galactose," by S. M. Bab- 

 cock and H. L. Russell ; " Composition of Ohio 

 Wines," by O. W. Smith and Norman Parks ; and 

 "New Process for the Commercial Production of 

 Oxygen," by Romyn Hitchcock. Inorganic Chem- 

 istry, in charge of Prof. Horace L. Wells : " Double 

 Salts," by Horace L.Weils; "The Alkaline Reac- 

 tion of Certain Natural Silicates," by Frank W. 

 Clarke ; " The Action of Soft Waters on Metals," 

 by Ellen H. Richards and Willis R. Whitney; 

 " Ferrous Iodide," by C. Loring Jackson and J. H. 

 Derby ; " The Action of Chromic Acid on Hydro- 

 gen," by Charles L. Reese; " On the Occurrence of 

 Strontium and Barium," by John H. Kastle ; " Use 

 of Electric Current in Forming Alums," by James 

 L. Howe and E. A. O'Neal ; " The Color of Sulphur 

 in the Gaseous State," by James L. Howe and S. G, 

 Hamner; "A Study of the Tellurides," by Cabell 

 Whitehead ; " Magnetic Ferric Oxide," by William 

 L. Dudley ; and " The Action of Various Bases on 

 Metallic Arsenites," by Charles Wellington. Or- 

 ganic Chemistry, in charge of Prof. Ira Remsen : 

 "On the Sulphur Compounds and Unsaturated 

 Compounds in Canadian Petroleum," by Charles F. 

 Mabery and W. 0. Quayle ; " On the Composition of 

 Commercial Paraffin and the Higher Constituents 

 of Pennsylvania Petroleum," by Charles F. Mabery ; 

 " On the Constituents of California Petroleum," by 

 Charles F. Mabery and E. J. Hudson ; " Some Ex- 

 periments on the Addition of Hydrogen to Acety- 

 lene," by Charles F. Mabery and II. L. Schrom ; 

 " The Oxidation of Formic Aldehyde by Hydrogen 

 Peroxide," by John H. Kastle ; " Certain Peculiar 

 Reactions of the Tribromnitrobenzols," by C. Loring 

 Jackson ; " The Propyl Phosphines," by Peter Fire- 

 man and E. G. Portner ; " The Action of Ethers on 

 Phosphonium Iodide," by Peter Fireman and Er- 

 nestine Fireman ; " Camphoric Acid : Synthesis of 

 the Neighboring Xylic Acid," by William A. Noyes; 

 "Hydrazo and Azo Derivatives of Tetraphenyl- 

 methane," by M. Gomberg and A. C. Campbell ; "On 

 Tetraphenylmethane " and " A Periodide of Brorn- 

 triphenylmethane," by M. Gomberg; "Oxyinduline 

 a New Blue Dyestuff," by Samuel P. Mulliken and 

 W. Kelly; "The Benzaldoximes," by Frank K. 

 Cameron ; " Certain Alkaloidal Periodides and the 

 Volumetric Estimation of Alkaloids as Higher 

 Periodides," by Albert B. Prescott and II. M. Gor- 

 din ; and "On True and Bis-Nitroso Compounds," 

 by M. Kneuer. Physiological Chemistry, in charge 

 of Edward E. Smith: "American Research in Phys- 

 iological Chemistry," by Edward E. Smith ; " In- 

 vestigations on the Nature of Nisse Granules " and 

 " Studies in Epilepsy : A Contribution to the Sub- 

 ject of Metabolism in Nervous Diseases," by Samuel 

 Bookman ; " Proteids of the Brain," by P. A. Le- 

 vtne; "Experiments on the Metabolism of Matter 

 and Energy in the Human Body" and "Experi- 

 ments on the Metabolism of Alcohol in the Human 



