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not joined in the work we are undertaking 

 who ought to be with us, for our efforts are 

 for the benefit of every chemist in America 

 and every chemist should do his part. The 

 only way to reach these is through the ener- 

 getic, individual help of the members, who can 

 aid the society in this way. 



Some of these non-members probably never 

 can be made to understand that they have any 

 part to perform in elevating the standard of 

 the profession in the country nor see any 

 personal responsibility therein so long as they 

 are able to read journals provided for them 

 by others. Possibly a few have no ambition 

 for personal advancement and care little about 

 the advancement of American chemistry as 

 such, but this is not true of many. Some 

 have not been invited, but with most the 

 reason that they are not with us is simply due 

 to the fact that the matter has not been pre- 

 sented to them individually in the correct 

 light. The argument of the journals we are 

 publishing, of the fact that more and more 

 corporations are urging their chemists to iden- 

 tify themselves with us, that many employers 

 are asking whether or not young men belong 

 to our society as a guarantee of the fact that 

 they are alive and interested in the develop- 

 ment of the profession, has been placed before 

 them, but the fact that they are not personally 

 assisting in the movement and that it is their 

 duty as well as privilege to do so may not 

 have been shown. These non-members do not 

 realize that if we had no more than one thou- 

 sand members our present publications would 

 cost those members at least thirty dollars per 

 year each; that by the union of 4,500 chem- 

 ists we have been able to return to the indi- 

 vidual material which could not have been 

 furnished in any other way and that two 

 thousand more members will enable us almost 

 to double the work that we are now doing. 

 Will you not help present to them the fact 

 that it is this union of American chemists 

 that is so rapidly advancing American chem- 

 istry, that is giving it prominence approach- 

 ing nearer and nearer to that of Germany and 

 that they should, if worthy members of that 

 profession, do their annual part towards its 

 development. 



Census of American Chemists 

 The secretary is attempting to secure a list 

 of all American chemists with their addresses, 

 whether they are members of the American 

 Chemical Society or not. He would be greatly 

 obliged to any member who will send him 

 names and addresses of non-members of the 

 society in order that they may be added to 

 this list if not already thereon. It would be a 

 special favor if chief chemists of large indus- 

 trial firms would send him a list of all chem- 

 ists in their employ to be cheeked off for this 

 purpose. Charles L. Parsons, 



Secretary of the American 

 Chemical Society 



TEE NATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 

 ON STANDARDS OF COLLEGES AND 

 SECONDARY SCHOOLS 

 The fourth annual meeting of the National 

 Conference Committee on Standards of Col- 

 leges and Secondary Schools was held in the 

 rooms of the dean of the Graduate School of 

 Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, 

 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass., on Satur- 

 day, October 9, 1909. All the organizations 

 which send delegates to the conferences of 

 this committee were represented, the delegates 

 being as follows : President George E. Mac- 

 Lean, the State University of Iowa, from the 

 National Association of State Universities; 

 Headmaster Wilson Farrand, Newark Acad- 

 emy, from the College Entrance Examination 

 Board; Professor Nathaniel P. Davis, Brown 

 University, from the New England College 

 Entrance Certificate Board; Dean Herman V. 

 Ames, the University of Pennsylvania, from 

 the Association of Colleges and Preparatory 

 Schools of the Middle States and Maryland; 

 Principal Frederick L. Bliss, the University 

 School of Detroit, from the North Central 

 Association of Colleges and Secondary 

 Schools; Chancellor James H. Kirkland, 

 Vanderbilt University, from the Association 

 of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the 

 Southern States ; Secretary James G. Bow- 

 man (in place of President Henry S. Prit- 

 chett), from the Carnegie Foundation for the 

 Advancement of Teaching; Dr. Elmer E. 



