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professor of fisheries, is known in connection 

 witli tlie economic fisheries of the United 

 States, and has heen active in the industry 

 since 1895, when he was appointed a field agent 

 of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



BUFFALO MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



The spring meeting of the American Chem- 

 ical Society will be held with the Western New 

 York Section in Buffalo, April Y to 11, inclu- 

 sive. There is every prospect that the meeting 

 will be one of the largest ever held by the 

 American Chemical Society as unusual interest 

 has developed in problems of reconstruction, in 

 the future utilization of war-time products, in 

 heretofore secret information on chemistry 

 warfare that can now be released, in the de- 

 velopment of a comprehensive compendia of 

 the literature of chemistry, and in many other 

 problems which the Buffalo meeting will con- 

 sider. A large number of chemists who have 

 already signified their intention to be present 

 assures also an unusual opportunity for meet- 

 ing and discussing chemical problems with 

 chemists who have been closely in touch with 

 the nation's affairs. The "Western New York 

 Section is making arrangements for interest- 

 ing excursions to industrial plants of im- 

 portance. 



Registration will take place at the Hotel 

 Statler beginning at 3 p.m., Monday, April 7. 

 An information bureau, will be located at the 

 hotel, and competent guides placed at all rail- 

 road stations. The general program is as fol- 

 lowing : 



MONDAT, APRIL 7 



4.00 P.M. — Council meeting at the University 

 dub. Dinner for the council as guests of the 

 Western New York Section at 6.30 p.m. 



TUESDAY, APRIL 8 



9.30 A.M. — General Meeting, Hotel Statler. 

 ' ' Tihe Futuo-e of American Ohemieal Industry, ' ' by 

 Wm. H. Nichols, President American Chemical 

 Society. 



One other general address to be announced. 



2.30 P.M. — General Symposium on the Chemistry 

 and Technology of Mustard Gas. Wilder D. Ban- 

 croft, chairman. Numerous interesting papers are 



offered. These ivill take up the whole of the after- 

 noon of Tuesday and may continue on Wednesday 

 morning in the Biological, Physical and Inorganic, 

 and Organic Divisions. 



8.15 P.M. — Smoker, Hotel Statler. 



WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. 



Divisional meetings — 9.30 a.m., 1 P.M. and 2.30 

 to 5.30 P.M., at Technical High School. 



6 P.M. — Dinner to Council at Canisius College. 

 8.30 P.M. — At Hutchinson High School — Public 



Address, "A Chemical Story," by Edgar F. Smith, 

 Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. 



THURSDAY, APRIL 10 



9.30 A.M. to 1 P.M. — Divisional meetings. 

 2 P.M. — Excursion. National Aniline & Chemical 

 Company. 



7 P.M. — Banquet — ^place to be announced. The 

 capacity of the hall requires that only 400 tickets 

 be issued. 



The usual meetings will be held by all the 

 Divisions except the Fertilizer Division, and 

 by the Rubber Chemistry Section, with the fol- 

 lowing special program: The Division of In- 

 dustrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers will 

 make a special effort on papers on the probable 

 future of those chemicals which have been 

 a/bnormally stim.ulated during the war and on 

 the library of the industrial laboratory. The 

 Pharmaceutical Division announces a symjx)- 

 sium on " The Possibilities in Drug Research." 

 The Rubber Chemistry Section will apply for 

 permission to organize at this meeting as a 

 division. 



Excursions are being arranged to include the 

 works of the Buffalo Foundry and Machine 

 ^ompany; J. P. Devine and Company; Larkin 

 Company; Municipal Laboratories and Water 

 Purification Works; Oil Crushers; Pratt and 

 Lambert, varnish makers; Spencer KeUogg 

 Company; and tour of the city. Also, excur- 

 sion to Niagara Falls, including visit to Power 

 Plant, luncheon at Chamber of Commerce, 

 pictures and exhibits of Niagara Falls prod- 

 ucts, drive along the Gorge and visit to Cana- 

 dian side and Victoria Park. To accomplish 

 the full program of excursions, it may be nec- 

 essary to arrange for part of these excursions 

 on Saturday. 



