SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1062 



Contributions of the Cliemist to the Pulp and Paper 



Industry: F. L. Moore, president Amerioan 



Paper and Pulp Association. 

 The Strassfurt Potash Industry: H. A. Huston. 



A oomplimentary luncheon was served at the 

 Tulane refectory, the university being host. On 

 Thursday evening a public address to the people 

 of New Orleans by Bernhard C. Hesse, entitled 

 "The Chemists' Contribution to the Industrial 

 Development of the United States — ^A Record of 

 Achievement, ' ' was given at the Hotel Grune- 

 wald, a large attendance being present. On 

 Friday divisional meetings were held, before 

 which one hundred and fifty-three papers were 

 presented. The details of these papers and a 

 further description of the meetings will be found 

 in the May issue of the Journal of Industrial 

 and Engineering Chemistry. Friday evening a 

 subscription dinner was held at the Eestaurant de 

 la Louisiane, which will long be remembered by 

 those present for the charming company and the 

 Creole cuisine. On Saturday one hundred of the 

 members took a special train to Weeks Island 

 and visited the famous salt-mine of the Myles 

 Salt Co. The train went through the bayou region 

 of Louisiana, made famous by Longfellow's 

 poem, "Evangeline." The newlv planted sugar- 

 fields and the swamps, with their Spanish moss 

 and the early tropical herbage, were attractive 

 to all. The mine, which is an unusual one, was 

 entered by a shaft six hundred feet deep, the 

 bottom of which opened into galleries out in 

 solid salt many hundred feet long and eighty 

 five feet high by eighty-five feet wide, entirely 

 unsupported by timbers. The salt, approxi 

 mately 99.9 per cent, pure, is simply blasted out; 

 carried to the surface, screened to various sizes, 

 and placed on the market. The party returned to 

 New Orleans in time to catch the evening trains, 

 Many ladies were present at the meeting and, 

 under the charge of the committee of which Mrs, 

 E. J. Northrup was chairman, received many 

 attentions from the people of New Orleans. 



The ladies were present at the smoker and at 

 the banquet and took the salt-mine escursion and 

 were given a special trip through the Vieux Carre 

 and to the Newoomb Pottery, and they ha.d a din- 

 ner of their own at one of the famous local res- 

 taurants. One hundred and seventy-five members 

 and approximately one hundred and twenty-five 

 guests were present, so that the meeting was a 

 very successful one from the point of numbers, 

 considering the distance of New Orleans from 

 the chemical center of the country. Meetings of 



the following divisions were held, full programs 

 of which will appear in the May issue of the 

 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry: 

 Industrial Chemists and Chemdcal Engineers. — 

 H. E. Howe, in the absence of the chairman, was in 

 charge. The following committees were appointed: 

 Committee on Standard Specifications and Methods 

 of Analysis: (Chairman not appointed), A. M. 

 Comey, J. O. Handy, Robert Job, F. G. Stantial. 

 Committee on Non-ferrous Metals and Alloys, a 

 subcommittee of the committee on standard 

 specifications: Wm. Price, chairman, Allen Mer- 

 rill, Geo. L. Heath, Gilbert Rigg, Bruno 

 Woichieehewski. 

 Committee on Soap Products : Archibald Campbell, 

 chairman, C. P. Long, J. R. Powell, Percy H. 

 Walker. 

 Committee on Glycerine, a subcommittee of the 

 Committee on Soap Products: A. C. Langmuir, 

 chairman, W. H. Low, S. S. Emery, R. E. Devine, 

 J. W. Loveland, A. M. Comey. 

 Committee on Naval Stores: J. E. Teeple, chair- 

 man (other members not yet selected). 

 Committee on Alum : W. M. Booth, chairman, Chas. 



P. Hoover, Wm. C. Carnell. 

 Committee on Platinum: W. P. Hillebrand, chair- 

 man, Percy H. Walker, H. T. Allen. 



Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. — E. P. 

 Schoch, in the absence of the chairman, was in 



Fertilizer Chemistry. — Chairman J. E. Brecken- 

 ridge was in charge. 



Agricultural and Food Chemistry. — Chairman 

 Floyd W. Robison was in charge. 



Organic Chemistry. — C. G. Derick, in the absenc« 

 of the chairman, was in charge. 



Pharmaceutical Chemistry. — Chairman F. R. 

 Eldred was in charge. 



Biological Chemistry.- — Chairman C. L. Alsberg 

 was in charge. 



Water, Sewage and Sanitation. — The following 

 officers were elected: Edward Bartow, chairman; 

 E. B. Phelps, vice-chairman; H. P. Corson, secre- 

 tary; executive committee — the officers and C. P. 

 Hoover and E. H. S. Bailey. 



Chakles L. Paksons, 

 Secretary 



TEE AMEBIC AN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 

 The one hundred and seventy-seventh regular 

 meeting of the society was held at Columbia Uni- 

 versity on Saturday, April 24, seventy-one mem- 



