December 15, 1905.1 



SCIENCE. 



805 



FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29. 



Forenoon. — At the close of the general session 

 of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, Section C will hold a brief session for 

 organization. This will be followed by the open- 

 ing session of the American Chemical Society in 

 the same room at about 11:45 A.M. Two ad- 

 dresses will be given : ' Some Important Problems 

 in Agricultural Chemistry,' by Hai'vey W. Wiley; 

 ' Recent Experimental Researches on Osmosis,' by 

 Louis Kahlenberg. 



Afternoon, 2:30 P.M. — Address of the retiring 

 chairman of Section C of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, Leonard P. 

 Kinnicutt. Subject : ' The Sanitary Value of a 

 Water Analysis.' 



SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30. 



Forenoon. — Session of the American Chemical 

 Society at 9:30 A.M. Subject: 'The Construction 

 of a Chemical Laboratory,' by William L. Dudley. 

 This will be followed by meetings of the sections: 

 Physical and Electrochemical, Louis Kahlenberg, 

 chairman; Inorganic, William L. Dudley, chair- 

 man; Organic, Charles F. Mabery, chairman; 

 Agricultural and Sanitary, Harvey W. Wiley, 

 chairman; Industrial, Samuel W. Parr, chairman. 



If enough papers are offered to warrant it, a 

 biological section will be formed, with William J. 

 Gies as chairman. 



Afternoon, 2 P.M. — Excursions to visit indus- 

 trial establishments. The following excursions 

 have been suggested, but the exact details are not 

 yet arranged: Visits to a sugar refinery, a mo- 

 lasses distillery, a cotton-seed oil mill, cotton 

 compress, plants for the distillation of wood and 

 for the manufacture of vinegar by the rapid 

 process from molasses, fertilizer works and rice 

 mills. 



Evening, 8 P. M. — The retiring president of the 

 American Chemical Society, Francis P. Venable, 

 will deliver an address upon the subject of ' Chem- 

 ical Research in the United States.' 



MONDAY, JANUARY 1. 



Forenoon, 9:30 A. M. — General meeting of Sec- 

 tion C of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, at which Professor Charles 

 F. Mabery will preside. Addresses : ' The Com- 

 position of Petroleum from American Fields — 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, ■ Kansas, Wyoming, 

 Colorado, Kentucky and California,' by Charles 

 F. Mabery ; ' Some Notes on the Service Waters of 

 a Railway System,' by Samuel W. Parr. These 

 addresses Avill be followed by meetings of the 

 sections. 



Afternoon, 2 P.M. — Excursions to visit indus- 

 trial establishments. 



Evening, 7 P.M. — A subscription dinner open to 

 all chemists in attendance on the meeting. 



TUESDAY, JANUARY 2. 



Forenoon, 9:30 A.M. — Meetings of the sections, 

 or visits to industrial establishments, according 

 to the exigencies of the program. 



RAILWAY RATES FOR THE NEW ORLEANS 

 MEETING. 



The railway rates for the New Orleans 

 meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science are now all in. As 

 already noted in previous numbers of Science 

 and in the preliminary announcement, which 

 is now in the hands of all members, a stand- 

 ard rate of one fare plus twenty-five cents for 

 the round trip has been granted by the South- 

 eastern Passenger Association and by the Cen- 

 tral Passenger Association. The Southeastern 

 Passenger Association includes the territory 

 south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers and 

 east of the Mississippi except that in West 

 Virginia the territory is south of Charleston 

 and in Virginia the town of Staunton is in the 

 Trunk Line Association. The Central Pas- 

 senger Association includes the whole of Mich- 

 igan, Ohio and Indiana, the northwest corner 

 of Pennsylvania and lower Ontario, in addi- 

 tion to the southern and eastern portion of 

 Illinois. The Trunk Line Association, in- 

 cluding New York, New Jersey, Delaware and 

 Maryland, and all of Pennsylvania, except the 

 northw^estern corner. West Virginia north of 

 Charleston, and northwestern Virginia, offers 

 one fare and one third to the southern or west- 

 ern termini of Trunk Line railroads, and one 

 fare plus twenty-five cents from those points. 

 The Western Passenger Association, including 

 the northern peninsula of Michigan, Wiscon- 

 sin, Minnesota, the eastern half of North 

 Dakota, all of South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, 

 Kansas, the northern portion of Illinois, the 

 northern portion of Missouri north of St. 

 Louis, and the eastern half of Colorado, offer 

 one fare plus two dollars for the round trip, 

 except that from points from which the local 

 railway rate to the eastern gateways of the 

 Association (Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis) 



