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work would add beyond measiire to its 

 speed and accuracy. It must be borne in 

 mind that the great delay in publishing the 

 printed record will be in having proof 

 promptly read, and we must spare no 

 trouble to secure prompt proof-reading. 

 This is especially true of the daily bulletin 

 and the minutes of the daily meetings of 

 the various sections and subsections. 



Further, there are among the members 

 of the American Chemical Society many 

 who have attended numerous national and 

 international congresses and meetings. Let 

 each such communicate to the officers of 

 the eighth congress what he regards as 

 improvements upon other meetings, and 

 how they might be realized in the eighth 

 congress, or what departures the eighth 

 congress should make from other con- 

 gresses and other similar gatherings. 



There are also many members of the 

 American Chemical Society who are not 

 directly connected with any local section, 

 but who are, nevertheless, in position to 

 make valuable suggestions and to get in- 

 formation for the organizing committee 

 relating to their localities upon request. 

 Such members, by making themselves 

 known to the organizing committee, and 

 setting forth the particular lines along 

 which they are particularly well fitted to 

 obtain information, will thus be making a 

 substantial contribution to the means avail- 

 able to the congress for its proper and 

 complete organization and conduct. 



I have endeavored to point out in the 

 foregoing, as speeificallj' as circumstances 

 will now permit, the various and different 

 ways in which the American Chemical 

 Society and its individual members can 

 further the objects of the congress and can 

 cooperate with the organizing committee. 

 It is most desirable that it should be clearly 

 understood and realized by every chemist 

 in the United States that the eighth con- 



gress is being organized with the view, 

 among others, towards correct, complete 

 and full representation of every chemical 

 interest in the United States and of the 

 chemical interests of all the geographical 

 divisions of the United States. In order 

 that the congress may be so organized it is 

 needful that its organizing committee be 

 as fully informed as can be, and kept so, 

 and to this end it is the individual chemist 

 acting through the American Chemical So- 

 ciety or one of its sections or divisions, or 

 by direct communication with the organ- 

 izing committee, who must perform the 

 work. The receipt of every suggestion 

 offered to the organizing committee will be 

 promptly acknowledged and each and 

 every .such suggestion will be filed away 

 and taken up for full consideration at the 

 proper time and by the proper committee 

 or officer, and will not be neglected. The 

 fact that the actual holding of the congress 

 is now almost two years off should not 

 deter any one from at once offering his- 

 information and suggestion or volunteering 

 his services, whether as a source of infor- 

 mation for a certain locality or as any- 

 other aid. A postal card notice will be suffi- 

 cient. The more promptly the organizing 

 committee is fully and completely informed 

 as to what it has to provide and as to the 

 individuals, societies and groups of men 

 upon whom it can count and what each can 

 or will do, the more expeditiously can that 

 committee proceed with its work and the 

 more closely will it approach to the com- 

 plete realization of the objects and pur- 

 poses of the congress. 



B. C. Hesse 



THE PROBLEMS OF THE AMERICAN 

 UXIVERSITY 



President Schurman's annual report 

 for the year closing September 30, 1910, 

 is characterized by a discussion of the pres- 



