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California in Berkeley, mainly in an examination 

 of the various buildings, laboratories and campus 

 of this beautifully-situated institution. 



Friday noon the party boarded a special steamer 

 as the guests of the Selby Smelting and Lead 

 Company, and sailed some twenty miles up San 

 Francisco Bay, being entertained at luncheon by 

 the company and afterwards conducted through 

 their plant, where the various processes of lead 

 smelting and the recovery of gold and silver 

 therefrom were explained. One of the chief at- 

 tractions of this plant was the opportunity given 

 to view the new Cottrell precipitating apparatus 

 installed for the purpose of removing sulfur tri- 

 oside and any other solids or liquids present in 

 smelter smoke. 



After returning to San Francisco, the evening 

 was spent in a visit to Chinatown, where at ten 

 o'clock all were entertained at a Chinese collation 

 of tea and sweets served in a Chinese restaurant 

 to music which the local committee eharaeterized 

 as sweet. 



Saturday morning was devoted to divisional 

 meetings at which the remaining papers on the 

 program were read. 



In the afternoon at two o'clock the members 

 were treated to an automobile ride over Buena 

 Vista Heights, through the Golden Gate Park to 

 the ocean beach and the Clifif House, returning 

 through the Presidio and the residential section of 

 San Francisco. 



In the evening the members assembled for the 

 main banquet of the week in the St. Francis Hotel, 

 at which the ladies attending were guests. About 

 two hundred and fifty sat down to the banquet, 

 which will long be remembered by those present. 



On July 17 the party, as the guests of the 

 Italian-Swiss Colony, took a special train to Asti, 

 where an unusually pleasant day was enjoyed in 

 examining the vineyards and wineries of this well- 

 known region. Lunch was ser\'ed outdoors in 

 unusually attractive pergolas. The party returned 

 to San Francisco early in the evening and were 

 given, almost for the first time, opportunity to 

 sleep. 



On the following morning, July 18, an excursion 

 was taken by steamer up the Sacramento River 

 to Sacramento through the wonderfully fertile 

 fields of the Sacramento Valley, between levees 

 so high that the party was obliged to view the 

 country from the upper deck of the steamer. The 

 general aspect was much like that of portions of 

 Holland. Returning from Sacramento by train, 

 the party reached San Francisco late in the eve- 



ning, having been royally entertained. Many, 

 however, took trains at Sacramento for the north. 



On Tuesday, July 19, a special steamer was 

 provided for those who remained to visit and 

 examine the various points of interest around 

 San Francisco Bay. 



Following the meeting in San Francisco, the 

 members returned to their homes by various 

 routes, but some thirty traveled northward by 

 invitation of the Puget Sound Section to visit 

 Seattle and obtain a view of the northern Pacific 

 coast scenery. Arriving in Seattle on the morn- 

 ing of the twenty-first, the party was met by 

 President Falkenburg, of the Puget Sound Section, 

 Horace G. Byers, councilor of the section. Presi- 

 dent Kane, of Washington University, and others, 

 who welcomed them as the guests of the Puget 

 Soimd Section. 



On arrival the ladies were supplied with bou- 

 quets of dahlias and shortly afterwards all started 

 on an automobile trip which covered all parts of 

 the city, both business and residential, and in- 

 cluded the beautiful grounds of Washington Uni- 

 versity. 



At the end of the drive the party were lunched 

 at the Commercial Club, after which they imme- 

 diately left on a chartered steamer for a trip 

 around Puget Sound. The first stopping-point 

 was the plant of the Pacific Creosoting Company, 

 where the party left the boat and inspected the 

 largest creosoting plant in the world. Returning, 

 a stop was made at the navy yard, where battle- 

 ships and armored cruisers were examined, and 

 then the party proceeded to Tacoma, where a 

 delightful lunch was served under the enormous 

 trees of the Tacoma City Park. By the courtesy 

 of the board of park commissioners, the party was 

 well supplied with roses and given permission to 

 pick all the sweet peas they could carry away. 



From Seattle some came east via Vancouver 

 and the Canadian Rockies, while others came over 

 the Northern Pacific, visiting the Yellowstone 

 National Park. 



Unusual enthusiasm was shown throughout the 

 whole meeting and many new western members 

 were added to the society, which now has a mem- 

 bership of over five thousand. 



Two hundred and ninety members and guests 

 registered for the meeting. 



One hundred and twenty papers were presented 

 at the meeting, embodying new chemical research, 

 many of them reporting very important results. 

 Chaeles L. Pabsons, 



Secretary 



