THE CHEMISTS' BUILDING 



to the enrolled members of the New York local sections of 

 the three large chemical societies. 



Of course, in this phenomenal development of the chemical 

 profession, America is merely catching up with European 

 progress, not leading it. The enormous attendance at the 

 recent Triennial Congress of Applied Chemistry was well 

 calculated to astonish the non-chemical world; and if the ini- 

 tiative taken at Chicago in 1893 toward convening these con- 

 gresses is to our credit, the contrast between the two hundred 

 and fifty men then in attendance and the chemists who will 

 crowd New York in October, 1912, will convince America not 

 only that progress has been made, but also that still greater 

 advances must be accomplished here, to keep pace with chem- 

 ical industry abroad. The American Chemical Society would 

 not fulfil its duty toward its membership by holding occasional 

 meetings and publishing the proceedings thereof; it must af- 

 ford them a means for the prompt publication of their re- 

 searches, as well as for their information upon the world's 

 progress in pure as well as applied science; its journals must be 

 the link which binds the isolated worker to his profession. 

 But there are still other needs; the relations of the profes- 

 sional chemist toward the industries must be established on a 

 sounder basis; the elimination of wasteful methods of manu- 

 facture through chemical control must be advocated more 

 forcibly and pervasively; chemical industry must cooperate 

 more closely toward the furthering of mutual interests, toward 

 the establishment of more satisfactory manufacturing con- 

 ditions, from the legal, as well as from the hygienic and eco- 

 nomic aspect; aids must be devised for the furtherance of 

 research, along'industrial as well as purely scientific lines. 



All of these ideas have been expressed atone time or another 

 by the promoters of the American Chemical Society, and they 

 were also in the minds of the founders of The Chemists' Club 



