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shrubs. Trees grow like weeds under the 

 climatic conditions existent in New York and 

 with varied scenery of intense interest the 

 highways of the state will eventually become 

 as beautiful as those of any other state in the 

 union. 



THE NEW YORK MEETING OF THE 

 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



A meeting of the American Chemical Soci- 

 ety will be held in conjunction with the Second 

 National Exposition of Chemical Industries, 

 September 25 to 30, inclusive. A council 

 meeting is called for Monday afternoon and 

 Monday evening. A general meeting follows 

 on Tuesday morning, and on Tuesday after- 

 noon it is hoped to have a public meeting in 

 the large hall at the City College, with ad- 

 dresses by prominent men bearing upon 

 " Chemistry and the National Welfare." On 

 Tuesday evening a general " get-together " en- 

 tertainment will be given by the New York 

 Section complimentary to the parent society, 

 to which visiting chemists will be invited. 

 On Thursday evening the Electrochemical 

 Society will give a smoker, to which the 

 members of the American Chemical Society 

 will be invited, and on Eriday evening a sub- 

 scription banquet will be held in one of New 

 York's large hotels. 



Meetings of divisions will be held on Wed- 

 nesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday morn- 

 ings. One of the special features of the meet- 

 ing will be general conferences on special sub- 

 jects in which the chemists of the country are 

 now interested. The idea of these confer- 

 ences is to have some important topics such as 



Glassware and Porcelain, 



Steel Alloy Metals, 



Paper and its Utilization, 



Oils and Motor Puels, 



Convertibility of Plant, 



Medicinal Chemicals, 



Dyestuffs and their Eelation to Munition Factories, 



Industrial Alcohol, Acetone and Pormic Acid, 



the discussion to be started by some well-known 

 specialists in these lines. No set program is 

 planned for these conferences, but it is believed 

 from past experience that chemists interested 



in these various lines will get together and 

 many interesting points will be brought out 

 which will be of mutual interest. The topics 

 for these conferences have not as yet been 

 determined upon, and suggestions are desired 

 from members of the society. These sugges- 

 tions will all be placed before the Program 

 Committee, and some six or . eight topics 

 selected therefrom. It is anticipated that two 

 conferences will be in session each afternoon 

 at the same time, one in the lecture hall of the 

 Grand Central Palace, where the Second Na- 

 tional Exposition of Chemical Industries will 

 be held, and one in the lecture hall of the 

 Chemists Club. 



The president's address will be one of the 

 general papers at the public meeting on Tues- 

 day. The division of biological chemistry, 

 physical chemistry and industrial chemistry 

 will hold a joint symposium on colloids on 

 Wednesday and Thursday mornings. On Wed- 

 nesday morning the symposium will be of a 

 theoretical nature, in which the industrial 

 division will not take part. On Thursday 

 morning the symposium will be composed of 

 industrial application of colloid chemistry. A 

 symposium on occupational diseases is also 

 planned and is to take up part of one of the 

 morning sessions of the industrial division. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A memorial to Major Walter Eeed, of the 

 army, who demonstrated the transmission of 

 yellow fever by mosquitoes, is planned for the 

 campus of the University of Virginia, of which 

 he was a graduate. 



Professor Julius Stieglitz, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, and Dr. Leo Baekeland, of 

 New York, were given the honorary degree of 

 doctor of chemistry by the University of Pitts- 

 burgh at its recent commencement. 



The degree of D.C.L. has been conferred 

 by the University of Oxford upon Douglas 

 William Freshfield, M.A., University College, 

 president of the Royal Geographical Society. 



Dr. Charles H. Mayo was the guest of 

 honor at a banquet given on June 22, by the 

 citizens of Rochester, in recognition of his 



