July 14, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



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logna; (h) coloring matters and their uses — 

 president, Professor Guglielmo Koerner, di- 

 rector of the Higher School of Agriculture, 

 Milan. 



5. Technology and chemistry of sugar — 

 president. Professor Vittorio Villavecchia, 

 director of the Customs Laboratory, Rome. 



6. Fermentation and starch; (a) fermenta- 

 tion, with special regard to enology — presi- 

 dent, Mario Zecchini, director of the experi- 

 ment station at Turin; (h) industry of starch 

 and its derivatives — president. Professor Gig- 

 lioli Italo, director of the experiment station 

 of Rome. 



7. Agricultural chemistry — president, An- 

 gelo Menozzi, professor of general chemistry 

 in the Royal School of Agriculture, Milan. 



8. Hygiene; (a) hygiene and medical chem- 

 istry — ^president, Icilio Guareschi, professor of 

 pharmaceutical chemistry in the University 

 of Turin; (h) pharmaceutical chemistry — 

 president, Luigi Balbiano, professor of phar- 

 maceutical chemistry in the University of 

 Rome; (c) bromatology — ^president, Arnaldo 

 Piutti, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry 

 in the University of Naples. 



9. Photochemistry, photography — president. 

 Colonel Gi^^seppe Pizzighelli, president of the 

 Italian Photography Society, Florence. 



10. Electro-chemistry, physico-chemistry — 

 president, Raffaello Nasini, professor of gen- 

 eral chemistry in the University of Padua. 



11. Laws, political economy and legislation 

 in relation to industrial chemistry — president, 

 G. B. Pirelli, Ponte Seveso 16, Milan. 



The languages used in the discussion are 

 Italian, French, German and English. The 

 minutes of the proceedings of the session will 

 be in Italian. 



Those who intend to present papers and 

 communications to the congress should send 

 them to the general secretary at least two 

 weeks before the opening of the congress. 

 They should be written in one of the official 

 languages of the congress, and as far as pos- 

 sible should be brief and succinct. 



The congress shall consist of general meet- 

 ings and meetings of the separate sections. 

 There shall be at least two general meetings, 

 of which the dates will be fixed by the com- 



mittee. The sections may hold any number 

 of meetings, and will work independently of 

 each other. 



The first general session shall be presided 

 over by the chairman of the organizing com- 

 mittee. At this meeting the officers shall be 

 elected, and shall include: an honorary presi- 

 dent, and acting president, acting vice-presi- 

 dent and honorary vice-presidents, a general 

 secretary and assistant secretaries. In the 

 last meeting of the congress at large shall be 

 fixed the date and the place for the seventh 

 congress of applied chemistry. 



A president chosen by the nominating com- 

 mittee shall preside over the first meetings 

 of the sections and subsections. In that 

 meeting shall be elected a president, one or 

 more vice-presidents, a secretary and one or 

 more assistant secretaries. At the end of 

 each meeting the president of the succeeding 

 meeting shall be elected by vote. The presi- 

 dent chosen by the nominating committee 

 shall be a member of the board of the section 

 in all its meetings. 



The sections can modify their order from 

 day to day. Actions shall be determined by 

 a majority vote — in case of a tie the vote of 

 the president shall decide. 



The presentation of a topic shall not last 

 more than twenty minutes, and during the 

 discussion, speakers shall not occupy the floor 

 for more than five minutes, nor speak more 

 tJtian twice on the same question, without 

 special permission from the chair. 



The minutes of a meeting shall include : 

 (a) a summary of the papers presented, in 

 the order in which they were given, the names 

 of the speakers, and a summary of the en- 

 suing discussion; (&) the decisions adopted in 

 each meeting. 



To make possible the accurate reproduction 

 of the transactions of each meeting, the mem- 

 bers who have spoken will send to the secre- 

 tary of the section, at the latest, half an hour 

 after the close of the meeting, a brief sum- 

 mary of the arguments of their papers. This 

 summary shall be written in one of the four 

 official languages. The secretary shall ar- 

 range the transactions, and transmit them, 

 together with a list of the members present. 



