June 30, 1911] 



SCIENCE 



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in Music Hall, after which the members visited 

 the Department of Fine Arts and the Museum of 

 the Institute. 

 Friday and Saturday. 



Members are invited to remain in Pittsburgh 

 after the close of the convention to make further 

 visits among the industries described in the hand- 

 book. Specific arrangements may be made for 

 these visits at the secretary's office during the 

 meeting. Special arrangements were made for 

 the benefit of visitors in a number of eases, 

 notably the Bureau of Mines, the .Jones & Laughlin 

 Steel Company, the Mesta Machine Company, the 

 National Tube Company, the Westinghouse Elec- 

 tric and Manufacturing Company and the West- 

 inghouse Machine Company. It is expected that 

 engineers will be detaUed to guide the visitors, 

 and that, in some cases, special exhibits and tests 

 will be provided. 



INDIANAPOLIS MEETING OF TEE AMER- 

 ICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 



The Indiana Section made special efforts 

 toward an unusually successful meeting be- 

 ginning June 2Y and lasting throughout the 

 remainder of the week. The program was ar- 

 ranged as follows : 



The council will meet on the afternoon of 

 Tuesday, June 27, and after a business meet- 

 ing will be taken for an automobile ride to 

 the Indianapolis Speedway. 



On Wednesday, the general session will be- 

 gin and three general addresses will be given. 

 Professor Charles Baskerville, of the College 

 of the City of New York, will give an ad- 

 dress on " The Chemistry of Anesthetics." 

 Professor Edward Kremers, of the University 

 of Wisconsin, will follow with a paper on 

 " The Quinhydrone Hypothesis of Plant Pig- 

 mentation." The third address, by Professor 

 W. Lash Miller, of the University of Toronto, 

 will be upon " The Chemical Philosophy of 

 the High-school Text-books." These papers 

 will be followed by a complimentary luncheon 

 at the German House and after luncheon 

 meetings of the agricultural and food, indus- 

 trial, organic and physical and inorganic 

 divisions and the biological section will be 

 held. In the evening a complimentary 

 smoker will be held in the gardens of the 

 German House. 



On Thursday morning there will be meet- 

 ings of the agricultural and food, industrial, 

 organic, pharmaceutical and physical and in- 

 organic divisions, one of the special features 

 being the meeting of the pharmaceutical di- 

 vision in the new science building of the Eli 

 Lilly & Co., followed by a luncheon there to 

 the pharmaceutical chemists. At the same 

 time a complimentary luncheon will be given 

 to the remaining chemists at the Indianapolis 

 Brewing Co., followed by an inspection of 

 their plant. In the afternoon all of the chem- 

 ists will visit the plant of the Eli Lilly & Co. 

 On Thursday evening there will be a public 

 lecture by Mr. A. D. Little at the German 

 House on the " Earning Power of Chemistry." 

 This lecture is one of the features of the 

 meeting and is intended to interest chemists, 

 business men and the general public alike. 

 Following the lecture there will be a concert 

 in the gardens of the German House. 



On Friday there will be an early visit to the 

 Indianapolis Water Works followed by meet- 

 ings of the fertilizer, industrial, physical and 

 inorganic divisions and the sections of biolog- 

 ical and of india rubber chemistry. At 12 :.30 

 these will be followed by a complimentary 

 luncheon at the automobile factory of Nor- 

 dyke & Marmon, followed by an inspection of 

 their factory. Later in the afternoon visits 

 will be made to the Encaustic Tile Co., to the 

 Fairmount Glass Works and to E. C. Atkins 

 & Co. In the evening the usual banquet of 

 the summer meeting will be held. 



On Saturday there will be visits to the 

 Kingan & Co., Ltd., to the Polk Sanitary 

 Milk Co. and to the Diamond Chain Co.; in 

 the afternoon, to the Van Camp Packing Co. 



A special endeavor is also being made to 

 see that the ladies accompanying members 

 have an enjoyable summer outing, including 

 automobile rides, receptions, theater parties 

 and luncheons. 



Over one hundred and fifty papers have al- 

 ready been received for the divisional meet- 

 ings. 



Charles L. Parsons, 



Secretary 



