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px'oeesses by which energy is released, leav- 

 ing respiration to designate the more super- 

 ficial phenomena of aeration with which 

 plant physiologists are little concerned. 

 Perhaps the woi'd respiration is already too 

 firmly imbedded in literature to be so 

 limited. It will at least do no harm to 

 propose that the terms aerobic and anaer- 

 obic energesis be considered, to which fer- 

 mentative energesis may be added if neces- 

 sary. Charles R. Barnes. 

 The University of Chicago. 



THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY AND 

 SECTION G OF THE AMERICAN ASSO- 

 CIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 

 OF SCIENCE. 



The meetings were held in the John 

 Harrison Laboratory of Chemistry of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, with the ex- 

 ception of those of the Section of Agricul- 

 tural, Sanitary and Physiological Chem- 

 istry, which were held in the Dental Hall 

 of the university. On Wednesday morn- 

 ing, December 28, there was a short meet- 

 ing of Section C for organization. It was 

 presided over by Professor L. P. Kinnicutt. 

 The following officers were elected to serve 

 during the meeting. 



Councilor — James Lewis Howe. 

 Member of General Committee — H. P. Armsby. 

 Member of Sectional Committee, 1905-1909 — 

 Wm. McPherson. 



Local Press Secretary — J. M. Mathews. 



Following the meeting of Section C there 

 was held the first session of the Chemical 

 Society. President Arthur A. Noyes was 

 in the chair. 



J. A. Parker read a resolution opposing 

 the passage of the Mann Bill, now before 

 Congress. The resolution "was referred to 

 the Committee on Patents and Patent 

 Legislation, and was amended to read as 

 follows : 



Resolved: That the present patent law is 

 sufficient protection to American inventors 

 and American industries provided that it 



be so amended as to require that, in order 

 to secure protection for the legal period, 

 the inventor must operate his process or 

 manufacture his product in the United 

 States on a commercial scale within two 

 years after the issue of his patent, and 

 must continue to do so during the life of 

 the patent. 



Professor Edward Hart then read a 

 paper on 'Some Present Problems in In- 

 dustrial Chemistry.' 



He first described the Louisiana sulphur 

 deposits which recently began to yield sul- 

 phur at the rate of 16,000 tons monthly 

 at a cost of less than three dollars per ton. 

 He then took up in detail the imports, ex- 

 ports, production and consumption of the 

 important heavy chemicals and showed 

 that much progress has been made in the 

 recent past in supplying our own markets 

 with the domestic products. This progress 

 was most marked in metal products, of 

 most of which we are now the largest pro- 

 ducers. Among instances of recent prog- 

 ress the discovery of Mr. Gayley that dry 

 air gave much more economical results in 

 the iron blast furnace was cited and it was 

 shown that at the most moderate computa- 

 tion this meant an addition to our national 

 income of nine million dollars. Among 

 the problems to be attacked by the chemist 

 the following were cited : ( 1 ) A cheaper 

 method for burning cement. (2) a cheap 

 substitute for rubber, (3) an artificial 

 cheap nitric acid, (4) extraction of potash 

 from feldspar, (5) utilization of titanium 

 compounds, (6) the home manufacture of 

 coal tar products. 



The speaker was of the opinion that 

 great progress had been made in chemical 

 industry in quality as well as quantity of 

 product, and that we should soon lead the 

 world in this branch of industry. 



After this Professor James Lewis Howe 

 read a paper on 'Recent Progress in Inor- 

 ganic Chemistry.' This appeared in the 



