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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. IV. No. 88. 



T. C. Mendenhall, the Society adopted a 

 resolution advocating the passage of a law 

 by Congress for the adoption of the metric 

 system of weights and measures. 



The following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year : President, H. T. Eddj^, of 

 University of Minnesota. Vice-Presidents, 

 J. Galbraith, of Toronto School of Practical 

 Science, and J. M. Ordway, of Tulane Uni- 

 versity. Secretary, C. Frank Allen, of Mass- 

 achusetts Institute of Technology. Treas- 

 urer, J. J. Flather, of Purdue University. 

 Councillors, T. C. Mendenhall, of Worcester 

 Polytechine Institute ; Eobert Fletcher, of 

 Thayer School of Civil Engineering; A. 

 Beardsley, of Swarthmore College ; M. E. 

 Wadsworth, of Michigan Mining School; W. 

 H. Schuerman, of Vanderbilt University, 

 and Wm. Kent, Editor of Engineering News. 



THIRTEENTH GENERAL SESSION OF THE 

 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.* 



The president. Dr. Chas. B. Dudley, 

 called the meeting to order. He spoke of 

 the large program and proceeded at once to 

 call upon the committee of arrangements. 



Dr. Miller introduced Dr. Roswell Park, 

 president of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Science, who gave the address of welcome. 

 After making the visitors feel at home, he 

 made a plea to those who were interested, 

 in physiological chemistry to produce a 

 substance which should have a germicidal 

 property, so far as the deleterious germs 

 were concerned, and yet not be toxic to the 

 living tissue. With such a substance we 

 could saturate our systems and live secure 

 from the attacks of the deleterious germs. 

 The president replied to Dr. Park's address. 

 After thanking him for his kind welcome, 

 he spoke of the advancement of chemistry 

 in the last few years, and the benefits to be 

 derived from chemists' being united in a 

 society. The reading of papers was then pro- 

 ceeded with. Among the most interesting of 



* Buffalo, N. Y., August 21 and 22, 1896. 



the papers read was that of Prof. Kennicott, 

 ' The Inspection and Sanitary Analysis of 

 Ice.' This paper was discussed at length. 

 The following is a list of the papers read : 



Composition of American Kaolins {^5m.). Chakles 



F. Mabeey and Otis F. Klooz. 



Composition of Certain 3Iineral Waters in Northwestern 

 Pennsylvania {15m.). A. E. Kobinson and 

 Charles F. Mabeby. 



Mercuric Clilor-thiocyanate {5m.). Chaeles H. 

 Heety and J. G. Smith. 



Zinconium Oxalates {10m.). F. P. Venable and 

 Chaeles Baskeeville. 



Rutheno-cyanides { m.). James Lewis Ho WE. 



The Inspection and Sanitary Analysis of Ice {30m.). 

 Cass L. Kennicott. 



The Reduction of Concentrated Sulphuric Acid by Cop- 

 per {8m,.). Chaeles Baskeeville. 



Some Analytical Methods Involving the Use of Hydrogen 

 Di-oxide {15m.). B. B. Eoss. 



Notes on the Preparation of Glucinum { 10m. ) . Edwaed 

 Haet. 



Aluminum Analysis {30m.). James Otis Handy. 



An Analytical Investigation of the Hydrolysis of Starch 

 ly Acids {SOm.). Geoege W. Kolfe and Geoege 

 Defeen. 



The Effect of an Excess of Reagent in the Precipitation of 

 Barium Sulphate {15m.). C. W. FOULK. 



Estimation of Thoria: Chemical Analysis of Monazite 

 Sand {15m.). Chaeles Glazee. 



Determination of Reducing Sugars in Terms of Cuprie 

 Oxide {30m.). Geoege Defeen. 



Acidity of Milk increased by Boracic Acid {5m.). E. H. 

 Faeeington. 



Accuracy of Chemical Analysis { 15m, ) . Feederic P. 

 Dewey. 



Some Extensions of the Plaster of Paris Method in Blow- 

 pipe Analysis (15m.). W. W. Andeews. 



Device for Rapidly Measuring and Discharging a Defi- 

 nite Amount of Liquid {5m.). Edwaed L. Smith. 



Table of Factors {5m.). E. H. MiLLEE. 



A Modified Form of the Ebullioscope {10m.). H. W. 

 Wiley. 



A New Form of Potash Bulb {5m.). M. GoBiBEEG. 

 Communicated by A. B. Peescott. 



Morphine in Putrefactive Tissue {15m. ). H. T. Smith. 

 Communicated by A. B. Peescott. 



The Signification of Soil Analysis {10m.). H. W. 

 Wiley. 



A Complete Analysis of Phytolacca decandra {5m.y. 



G. B. Feankfoetee and Feancis Eomaley. 

 The Crystallized Salts of Phytolacca decandra. G. B. 



Feankfoetee and Feancis Eomaley. 

 Ihe By-products formed in the Conversion of Narcoline 

 into Narceine {5m.). G. B. Feankfoetee. 



