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[Vol. LVI, No. 1446 



G. E. Mansfield — The Rocky Mountains of 

 Idaho and Montana. 



Bailey "Willis — The Pacific mountains. 



Edmund Otis Hovet 



Secretary. 



THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 



As a result of action 'by the council the 

 Journal of Physical Chemistry is to be pub- 

 lished under the auspi-ees of three great English- 

 speaking chemical societies — the American 

 'Chemical Society, the Chemical Society at Lon- 

 don and Faraday Society of Great Britain. 

 Action by the Council of the American Chem- 

 ical Society at the Pittsburgh meeting com- 

 pleted plans for this step, ■which is hailed by 

 leading chemists as a fine recognition by the 

 two conservative British groups of the high 

 quality of the work of American chemists, and 

 an important advance in the science of chem- 

 istry. 



The action is the resiilt of the recent visit 

 of Dr. Charles L. Parsons, secretary of the 

 American Chemical Society, to England, where 

 he had a conference with officials of the Chem- 

 ical Society of London in regard to the inter- 

 nationalization of this journel, of which pro- 

 fessor Wilder D. Bancroft of Cornell Univer- 

 sity is editor. 

 ' The following conditions were agreed to : 



1. In future the Jounial of Physical Chemistry 

 shall be under the joint auspices of the American 

 Chemical Society and the Chemical Society,i 

 neither society, however, being financially liable 

 in any way. 



2. The control of the Journal shall be exercised 

 by a board, consisting of eight members, four 

 being nominated by the American Chemical Soci- 

 ety and four by the Chemical Society. These 

 members to be appointed for a term of two years, 

 except that one half shall go off each year, those 

 who retire the first year to be determined by lot. 

 No member of the board shall serve continuously 

 more than four years. 



3. The eight members of the board will elect 

 an editor-in-chief, who shall have an equal voice 

 on the board, except on the question of election 



1 Later the Faraday Society became one of the 

 parties of the agreement and will appoint one 

 member of the board of editors. 



of the editor-in-chief, on which matter he shall 

 not vote. 



4. The lines on which the Journal will be run 

 shall be left entirely in the hands of the said 

 board. 



5. It is suggested that the board shall appoint 

 also a managing editor, who shall be responsible 

 to the board for the business management of the 

 Journal. 



6. The board shall report annually to each of 

 the societies under the auspices of which the 

 Journal is published. 



7. The Journal shall be offered to members of 

 the American Chemical Society and to fellows of 

 the Chemical Society at reduced subscription rates. 



Dr. Parsons also reported to the council 

 that Francis P. Garvan, president of the Chem- 

 ical Foundation, had guaranteed $10,000 an- 

 nually for five years for publication work. 

 "This guarantee I make on behalf of the Chem- 

 ical Foundation," Mr. Garvan wrote, "but if 

 the funds of the Chemical Foundation prove 

 inadequate, I will make good the guarantee 

 personally." 



CHEMICAL PRIZE ESTABLISHED BY THE 



ALLIED CHEMICAL AND DYE 



CORPORATION 



A PEIZE of $25,000 to be awarded annually 

 to a chemist in the United States for con- 

 tributions to chemistry was announced by 

 the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation of 

 New York, in a letter read by Dr. Edgar F. 

 Smith, president of the American Chemical 

 Society, at a councU meeting which opened 

 the sixty-fourth annual meeting of the society 

 at Pittsburgh on September 6. The letter from 

 Dr. Wm. H. Nichols, chairman of the corpora- 

 tion, is as follows : 



Confirming our interview yesterday, it gives me 

 great pleasure to state that the Allied Chemical 

 and Dye Corporation desires to institute an an- 

 nual prize of $25,000 to reward the chemist re- 

 siding in the United States, who in the opinion 

 of a properly constituted jury has contributed 

 most to the benefit of the science and of the 

 world. Realizing, as we do, the enormous influ- 

 ence which chemists working in all the fields of 

 that science will have on the welfare of the world, 

 we desire by this prize to so encourage the work- 

 ers that even larger benefits should accrue than 



