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SCIENCE 



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Such a board would naturally administer 

 the scheme of the Privy Council committee, 

 as well as take over certain functions of exist- 

 ing departments and boards. 



The functions of the board would be much 

 the same as regards the promotion of scientific 

 and industrial research and training, the co- 

 operation of universities with industries 

 through trade associations, and the mainte- 

 nance of a record of scientific and technical 

 experts, as outlined in the report on " British 

 Trade after the War," by a subcommittee of 

 the Board of Trade. 



II. In all departments of state in which 

 scientific work is carried on, adequate pro- 

 vision should be made for the periodical pub- 

 lication and wide distribution of bulletins, 

 leaflets and reports, so that increased public 

 interest and attention may be encouraged in 

 the results. 



III. Every industrial undertaking, subsi- 

 dized or otherwise assisted by the state, should 

 have upon its board of directors men who pos- 

 sess expert scientific knowledge of the business 

 in which they are engaged. 



IV. In order to develop industries which 

 especially require the services of scientific 

 workers, adequate remuneration and improved 

 prospects should be offered by the government, 

 by municipal corporations, and by manufac- 

 turers to men who have received an effective 

 scientific training. Means should be found of 

 compensating and rewarding persons whose 

 researches have proved of decided national or 

 public advantage without being profitable to 

 themselves. 



Y. A knowledge of science should be re- 

 garded as an essential qualification for future 

 appointments in the departments of the pub- 

 lic service concerned with industrial, scientific 

 and technical developments. The Royal Com- 

 mission on the Civil Service recommended in 

 1914 that a committee should be appointed to 

 consider the present syllabus of subjects of 

 examination for clerkships (Class I.). This 

 committee should be constituted without de- 

 lay, and science as well as other branches of 

 modern learning should be adequately repre- 

 sented upon it, and upon the Civil Service 

 Commission itself. 



VI. Measures should be taken to revise the 

 educational courses now followed in the pub- 

 lic schools and the universities of Oxford and 

 Cambridge. 



VII. In elementary and secondary schools 



supervised by the Board of Education, more 

 attention should be given to scientific method, 

 observation and experiment, and to educa- 

 tional handwork. 



NEW YORK MEETING OF THE AMER- 

 ICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



Official announcement of the meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society, to be held in 

 New York September 25 to 30, in conjunction 

 with the Second National Exposition of Chem- 

 ical Industries, was issued to the members by 

 Dr. Charles L. Parsons, secretary, on August 

 15. Dr. Charles H. Herty, of the University 

 of North Carolina, president of the American 

 Chemical Society, will open the exposition on 

 Monday, September 25, at 2 o'clock in the 

 afternoon, with an address reviewing the his- 

 tory of chemistry and the chemical industries 

 in this country, and outlining developments 

 since the outbreak of war in Europe. The 

 presidents of cooperating societies, such as the 

 American Electrochemical Society, the Amer- 

 ican Institute of Mining Engineers, and the 

 American Paper and Pulp Association, will 

 follow Dr. Herty with speeches of welcome and 

 reviewing the progress made in the industries 

 represented by them. 



The first general session of the American 

 Chemical Society will open at Columbia Uni- 

 versity on Tuesday morning, September 26, 

 and arrangements are being perfected for a 

 public meeting in the large hall of the College 

 of the City of New York on Tuesday after- 

 noon, when addresses will be made of general 

 public interest pertaining to the interesting 

 developments in the field of applied chemistry 

 during recent years. 



The program of the week's meetings will 

 provide for general conferences on subjects in 

 which the chemists of the country are now in- 

 terested, and it is intended that the lecture 

 hall of the Grand Central Palace and Rum- 

 ford Hall in the Chemists' Club building will 

 be occupied each afternoon at the same time 

 by one or other of the different divisions of the 

 society for the discussion of such industrial 

 topics as the production of dyestuffs, medicinal 

 chemicals, industrial alcohol, the manufacture 



