July 17, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



81 



General of the Congress, Bureau of Fisheries, 

 Washington, D. C. 



THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



The thirty-eighth general meeting of the 

 American Chemical Society was held in New 

 Haven, Conn., June 29 to July 2, and was one 

 of the most successful summer meetings ever 

 held by the society. Two hundred and fifty 

 members were present and one hundred and 

 seventy-four papers were presented. 



The large number of papers made it neces- 

 sary to hold more sectional meetings than 

 usual and the society met in six sections for 

 the presentation of papers. 



The society met in the lecture rooms of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School and the following 

 nine papers were presented in general session 

 before all the members : " Official Inspection 

 of Commodities," by A. L. Winton, chairman 

 of the Agricultural and Eood Section ; " The 

 Increasing Importance of the Earer Ele- 

 ments," by P. E. Browning, chairman of the 

 Inorganic Section ; " The Analyst, the Chem- 

 ist and the Chemical Engineer," by Wm. D. 

 Richardson, chairman of the Industrial Sec- 

 tion; "A Discussion of Some of the Methods 

 used in Determining the Structure of Organic 

 Compounds," by Wm. McPherson, chairman 

 of the Organic Section ; " Our Present Knowl- 

 edge of Plant Proteins," by T. B. Osborne, 

 chairman of the Biological and Sanitary 

 Chemistry Section ; " Some Applications of 

 Physical Chemistry," by Frank K. Cameron, 

 chairman of the Physical Chemistry Section; 

 " Chemical Publications in America in Ee- 

 lation to Chemical Industry," by W. A. 

 Noyes ; " The Electrolytic Theory of the Cor- 

 rosion of Iron as applied to the Protection of 

 Steam Boilers," by W. H. Walker; "The Ke- 

 search Chemist," by W. E. Whitney. 



On Wednesday afternoon, July 1, an excur- 

 sion to Ansonia was enjoyed by the visiting 

 chemists for the purpose of visiting the works 

 of the Ansonia Brass and Copper Company 

 and the Coe Brass Manufacturing Company. 

 On the evening of the same day the members 

 met on the East Shore for a social outing 

 and dinner. 



The organization of the Division of Indus- 

 trial Chemists and Chemical Engineers was a 

 feature of the meeting and the following 

 officers were elected: Chairman, A. D. Little; 

 Vice-chairman, A. H. Low; Secretary, B. T. 



B. Hyde; Executive Committee, Wm. H. 

 Walker, Wm. Brady, J. D. Pennock, W. C. 

 Ebaugh, F. B. Carpenter. Twenty-eight im- 

 portant papers were presented before the di- 

 vision and marked enthusiasm was shown. A 

 movement is also on foot for organizing the 

 food chemists, the general and physical chem- 

 ists and the fertilizer chemists. 



The rapid growth of the society under the 

 impetus of the organization of chemists into 

 special groups and the continually improving 

 quality of its journals was noted by all, seven 

 hundred new members having been added in 

 the last eight months. 



Matters of decided importance were brought 

 before the council and acted upon. A new 

 section of the society was established with 

 headquarters at Louisville, Ky. It was de- 

 cided that the winter meeting should be held 

 in Baltimore in affiliation with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 and that the summer meeting for 1909 should 

 be held in San Francisco. 



The society having been represented by its 

 president in the recent conference in Wash- 

 ington on the Conservation of our Natural 

 Eesources, it was voted that a standing com- 

 mittee on the conservation of our natural re- 

 sources be established and that the American 

 Chemical Society should attempt to point out 

 how chemists could assist this movement. 



W. D. Eichardson was elected editor-in- 

 chief of the new Journal of Industrial and 

 Engineering Chemistry and the following were 

 elected as associate editors: Henry M. Howe 

 (metallurgy of iron and steel), A. H. Low 

 (metallurgy of gold, silver and lead), Geo. 



C. Stone (copper, zinc and other non-ferrous 

 metallurgy), Willis E. Whitney (applied 

 electrochemistry), F. W. Lovejoy (photochem- 

 istry), A. E. Leach (foods), L. P. Kinnicutt 

 (water, sewage and sanitation), F. B. Car- 

 penter (fertilizers and soils), Eobert Wahl 

 (fermented and distilled liquors), Virgil 

 Coblentz (pharmaceutical chemistry), T. J. 



