December 26, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



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Nashville, Tenn., President L. C. Glenn presiding. 

 The program of papers was as follows : 



Memorial sketches of Dr. Brown Ayres and Pro- 

 fessor Samuel M. Baiin, by Dr. C. H. Gordon. 



Annual address of the president, ' ' Geography of 

 the North Carolina-Tennessee boundary line," by 

 Dr. L. C. Glenn. 



"Eecent oil and gas development work in Tenn- 

 essee, "by Wilbur A. Nelson. 



"Luck," by Dr. F. B. Dresslar. 



"The elimination of errors in a mental maze," 

 by Professor Joseph Peterson. 



"Archeology: new discoveries in the middle 

 south," by W. E. Myer. 



"Notes on the early history of the development 

 of the mineral kingdom, " by A. W. Evans. 



"The feeding of the American army and some 

 civilian applications," by Dr. Lucius P. Brown. 



"Some entomological problems," by A. C. 



'Eemarks on the orthoptera of ClarksvUle, 

 Tenn.," by Henry Fox. 



At the conclusion of the president's address a 

 committee was appointed to recommend to the 

 academy at its next meeting the adoption of a gen- 

 eral name for the mountains of the Tennessee-North 

 Carolina boundary line, taking into consideration 

 all the different names that have been used and 

 selecting the most authentic. This committee con- 

 sists of Professor A. E. Parkins, of the department 

 of geography, Peabody College; Dr. C. H. Gordon, 

 of the department of geology. University of Tenn- 

 essee, and Mr. Wilbur A. Nelson, state geologist of 

 Tennessee. 



Tie election of oiScers for the ensuing year re- 

 sulted as follows: President, Dr. L. C. Glenn, Van- 

 derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; Vice-presi- 

 dent, Miss Jeanette M. King, Middle Tennessee 

 State Normal School, Murfreesboro, Tenn. ; Editor, 

 Dr. C. H. Gordon, University of Tennessee, Knox- 

 ville, Tenn. ; Secretary-Treasurer, Eoscoe Nunn, 

 U. S. Weather Bureau office, Nashville, Tenn. 

 RoscoE Nunn, 



Secretary 



THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY— 

 VI 



ORGANIC DIVISION 



Lauder W. Jones, Cliairman 

 H. L. Fisher, Secretary 

 Cymene as a solvent: A. S. Wheelbk. 

 The action of iasic reagents on certain Schiff'a 

 hoses: A. S. Wheeler and S. C. Smith. 



Structural problems of the aniline derivatives of 

 citric acid: J. R. Bailet and B. B. Brown. 



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BaUey and Brown show that aniline reacts wit 

 methylene citric anhydride giving a product, which 

 readily hydrolyzes with the elimination of formal- 

 dehyde and which the method of formation and 

 analysis show to be citranilic acid constituted as 

 follows: 



CHs- 



HO- 



-CO 

 \ 



-C— COOH N CeHs. 

 I / 



GHz CO 



I. 



This citranilic acid is a different product from a 

 citranilic acid reported by Pebal,! which results 

 from heating the mono-aniline salt of citric acid. 

 With the constitution established for the Bailey- 

 Brown citranilic acid, there remains only the iso- 

 meric structure for the Pebal compound, to wit, 



-CO 



CH2 



I 



HO-C- 



I 

 I 



-CO 



II. 



CH2— COOH. 



This investigation also establishes the constitution 

 of Pebal 's " Citrobianil "2 as 



CHo 



^>N— CeHs 



-CO 



I > 



HO-C CO 



III. 



CHj— CO NH CeHs. 



The anilanilde isomeric with III. can be made from 

 citranilic acid I. The proof „of structure of the 

 two aniline derivatives of citric, II., and III., is 

 typical of the theoretical deductions to be made 

 concerning a number of correlated substances, the 

 structures of which prior to the investigation of 

 Bailey and Brown were in doubt. The detailed 

 results of this work, when completed, will be sub- 

 mitted to the Journal of the American Chemical 

 Society for publication. 



The synthesis of capric acid: G. D. Beal and J. 

 B. Bkovtn. 



The action of phosplwrus trichloride on Tcetones 

 and aldehydes : James B. Conant and A. D. Mac- 



DONALD. 



Condensation of acetylene with benzene and its 

 derivatives in the presence of aluminum chloride: 

 Otto W. Cook and Victor J. Chambers. Ben- 

 zene, in addition to sym. diphenylethane and traces 



lAnn., 82, 92 (1852). 

 2Ann., 82, 87 (1852). 



