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come necessary to stage the 400 exhibits of 

 this year's event in an exposition building of 

 immense proportions, covering an area of five 

 city blocks. As much of the program is car- 

 ried out in speeches, lectures, and papers of 

 value to the investigator along these lines, a 

 special auditorium arranged according to the 

 plan of a theater, and having a seating ca- 

 pacity equal to many such houses, will meet 

 the needs of a quiet and comfortable lecture 

 hall. It will oiler an ideal place for the many 

 symposiums that will be held during the week. 



These will take the nature of scientific dis- 

 cussions, practical talks, exchange of ideas, 

 " get together " meetings, and motion pictures 

 covering every industry, lent through the 

 courtesy of the government, numerous com- 

 panies and plants where these industrial reels 

 have been filmed. 



Dr. Charles H. Herty, editor of the Journal 

 of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, is 

 chairman of the advisory committee. Others 

 on this board include Raymond ]?. Bacon, di- 

 rector, Mellon Institute; L. H. Baekeland, 

 hon. professor chemical engineering, Columbia 

 University ; Henry B. Faber, consulting chem- 

 ist; John F. Teeple, president, the Chemists 

 Club; Bernard C. Hesse, chemist. General 

 Chemical Co.; Acheson Smith, president, 

 American Electrochemical Society; A. D. 

 Little, president, Arthur D. Little, Inc.; Wil- 

 liam H. Nichols, chairman of the board. Gen- 

 eral Chemical Co.; H. C. Parmelee, editor. 

 Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering ; 

 Fred W. Payne, co-manager of the exposition; 

 E. P. Perry, vice-president. The Barrett Co.; 

 Charles F. Both, co-manager of the exposi- 

 tion; Edgar F. Smith, president, Am erican 

 Chemical Society; T. B. Wagner, vice-presi- 

 dent, U. S. Food Products Corporation; Da- 

 vid Wesson, president, American Institute of 

 Chemical Engineers; and M. C. Whitaker, 

 president. United States Industrial Chemical 

 Company. The headquarters of the exposition 

 are now located at 342 Madison Avenue, New 

 York City. 



THE CHEMICAL MEETING IN NEW YORK CITY 



Governor Miller will go on Labor Day to 

 Niagara Falls to welcome officially the dele- 



gates of the British Society of Chemical In- 

 dustry, who will visit the United States to 

 hold a joint meeting with the American Chem- 

 ical Society. At the head of the overseas dele- 

 gation will be Sir William J. Pope, president 

 of the Society of Chemical Industry. Among 

 other prominent members will be Dr. Louis 

 A. Jordan, who was sent to aid the Italian 

 government in the making of explosives; Dr. 

 Frederick William Atack, whose principal 

 work has been the chemistry of dyes; Dr. An- 

 drew Mc Williams, one of the best known steel 

 metallurgists in Great Britain; and Dr. An- 

 drew Smith, an explosives engineer of inter- 

 national reputation. Some of the eminent 

 Canadian chemists will be : Dr. E. F. Euttan, 

 past president of the Canadian Section of the 

 society; Dr. Milton L. Hersey, one of the 

 founders and past chairman of the Canadian 

 Section; and Dr. C. E. Hazen, chairman of the 

 Montreal Section. 



According to the preliminary program of the 

 American Chemical Society, made public to- 

 day, registration begins at the Chemists Club, 

 52 East 41st Street, on Tuesday, September 

 6. The dinner of the Council will also be held 

 at the club. The general meeting will con- 

 vene at 10 o'clock on the following day at Co- 

 lumbia University, and at half past twelve 

 o'clock the Society of Chemical Industry's 

 luncheon to British and Canadian visitors will 

 take place. There will be a reception and 

 lawn party for the members of all societies 

 concerned, to be held on the Campus of Co- 

 lumbia University, and in the evening a 

 smoker will be held in the Waldorf-Astoria. 



A joint meeting of the American Chemical 

 Society and of the Society of Chemical In- 

 dustry of Great Britain has been arranged for 

 four o'clock on Thursday afternoon and in 

 the evening will be held a banquet at the Wal- 

 dorf-Astoria. The various divisional and sec- 

 tional meetings are scheduled at Columbia 

 University. The sessions will conclude with a 

 public meeting, at which the president. Dr. 

 Edgar F. Smith, will deliver the annual ad- 

 dress. The last day will be given to excur- 

 sions to various chemical plants and other 

 points of interest in the city. 



