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Recent Baltimore Meetings 
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By far the larger part of the papers are given in sectional meet- 
ings but at Baltimore more than the usual number of general 
meetings was held, thus bringing all sorts of chemists together 
more than ordinarily. This general mixing was further increased 
by the fact that the best place to obtain the noon lunches was at 
the Woman’s College where the meetings were held. In the 
morning of the first day the society listened to the following 
addresses: “The Untilled Field of Chemistry” by A. D. Little, 
Chairman Division Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers, 
“The Use and Abuse of the Ionic Theory” by G. N. Lewis, Chair- 
man of Physical Chemistry Section; “The Work of Werner on 
the Constitution of Inorganic Compounds” by Charles H. Herty, 
Chairman of Inorganic Chemistry Section. The afternoon was 
given exclusively to the meeting of the new Section of Chemical 
Education, four papers being presented as follows: “Science 
Teaching as a Career” by H. P. Talbot, Chairman of this section; 
“The Efficiency and Deficiencies of the College Trained Chemist 
when Tested in the Technical Field” by William H. Nichols; 
“To What Extent Should College Training Confer Practical Effi- 
ciency along Technical Lines” by L. M. Dennis; “The Attitude 
of Technical Institutions to Post Graduate Study” by William 
McMurtrie. 
In the evening at the Hotel Belvedere William Simon gave an 
illustrated lecture on the “Lumiere Process of Color Phography.” 
This was followed by a complimentary smoker. Sectional meet- 
ings were held Wednesday forenoon and on subsequent days. 
Agricultural and Food Chemistry Section, H.J. Wheeler, Chairman, 
21 papers; Biological Chemistry Section, J. J. Abel, Chairman, 16 
papers; Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers, 
A. D. Little, Chairman, 26 papers; Fertilizer Chemistry Section, 
F. B. Carpenter, Chairman, 10 papers; Pharmaceutical Chemistry 
Section, Edward Kremers, Chairman, 5 papers; Inorganic Chem- 
istry Section, Charles H. Herty, Chairman, 17 papers; Organic 
Chemistry Section, S. F. Acree, Chairman, 29 papers: Physical 
Chemistry Section, Gilbert N. Lewis, Chairman, 31 papers. 
Wednesday afternoon was devoted to two excursions, one to the 
U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and the other to Sharp and 
Dohme, pharmaceutical chemists. In the evening at the Girl’s 
