September 19, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



283 



In the afternoon of Wednesday, the following 

 general papers were presented before the whole 

 society: 



1. H. J. Wheeler. Some problems and methods 

 in agricultural research. 



2. W. V. Bovie. Some physiological effects pro- 

 duced by radiating definite regions within a single 

 cell. 



3. Earle B. Phelps. Stream pollution and its 

 relation to the chemical industries. 



4. W. D. Harking. The building of atoms and 

 the periodic systems. 



5. Kobert P. Fischelis. The chemical laiboratory 

 as a publicity factor. 



On Wednesday night the largest smoker ever held 

 by the American Chemical Society at wfhich some 

 ■ 1,300 were present, was enjoyed by all. The pro- 

 gram consisted of popular songs, a series of in- 

 teresting films from the various studios, among 

 others introducing for the first time films showing 

 the growth characteristic of snow crystals; descrip- 

 tions by Mr. Edward James Cattell, of Philadel- 

 phia, interspersed with songs by Henri Scott, of 

 the Metropolitan Company. A special feature of 

 the program was an original play representing 

 early chemists meeting in Philadelphia, being 

 based on the historical fact that the American 

 Philosophical Society gave a dinner to Dr. Joseph 

 Priestly in 1803, at which time Hare's oxhydrogen 

 blowpipe was demonstrated to him opening up a 

 new field of chemical investigation. There were 

 also other interesting features. 



The address of President William H. Niohols on 

 "Research and application," given in the Museum 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, on Thursday, 

 September 4, drew a large audience. The address 

 was printed in the issue of Science for last week. 



The banquet held at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel 

 Friday night was one of the largest held by the 

 society, with its brilliant company, good food and 

 bright after-dinner speeches. 



Abstracts of papers presented before the divis- 

 ions will be printed in Science. 



MEETING or THE COUNCIL 



The council of the American Chemical Society 

 met at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, 

 Pa., 4 P.M., on September 2, with President Nichols 

 in the chair and 97 councilors present. 



A. B. Lamb was reelected editor of the Journal 

 of the American Chemical Society and the present 

 board of associate editors was continued. Charles 

 H. Herty was reelected editor of the Journal of 

 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry; E. J. 

 Crane, editor of Chemical Abstracts; Charles L. 



Parsons, secretary, and B. C. Hesse, a member of 

 committee on national policy for a term of two 

 years. 



It was voted that the spring meeting for 1920 

 be held in St. Louis, and the 1920 fall meeting in 

 Chicago. 



The report of the committee on the preparation 

 of a list recommending chemical texts for libraries 

 was presented and accepted. 



A committee consisting of Charles Baskerville, 

 P. P. Venable, Julius Stieglitz, W. D. Bancroft 

 and M. T. Bogert, was appointed to draw up reso- 

 lutions on the death of Lord Rayleigh, an honorary 

 member of our society. 



The following by-law having been sent to all 

 members of the council on August 1, was passed 

 unanimously after extended discussion: 



No person shall become a member of any Division 

 who is not a member of the American Chemical 

 Society; but Divisions may have associate mem- 

 bers not members of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety who shall be entitled to all the privileges of 

 the Division, save that of voting for officers; pro- 

 vided that such associate members shall not be 

 entitled to any of the other privileges of the 

 American Chemical Society, and shall pay such 

 dues, of not less than two dollars per annum, as the 

 Division may require. 



A report of the American delegates to the Inter- 

 allied Chemical Conference held in London, July 

 14 to 17 and Brussels, July 22, was presented to 

 the council by E. W. Washburn. The substance of 

 this report will be found in the Journal of Indus- 

 trial and Engineering Chemistry, and in Science. 



President Nichols announced that the Army and 

 Navy Departments had responded enthusiastically 

 to the idea that the American Chemical Society 

 furnish certain lectures on chemical subjects to be 

 given at the West Point and Annapolis academies 

 and that he had received a list of the subjects and 

 the individuals which the officials of the academies 

 desired. 



Editor E. J. Crane spoke on the plans of the 

 committee on nomenclature, spelling and pronuncia- 

 tion and stated that the committee hoped to take 

 this matter up also with otlier chemical societies 

 using the English laugTiage in the hope that some 

 coordination between them might be obtained. Re- 

 ferring to this matter the following motion was 



That the president of the American Chemical 

 Society invite on behalf of the council of the so- 

 ciety the governing bodies of the Chemical Society 

 (London) and the Society of Chemical Industry 

 to appoint a committee, or committees, on nomen- 

 clature, spelling and pronunciation to cooperate 

 with the corresponding committee of the American 



